This is a side-note to the thread I copied below from the Guilford Co. mailing list just received. I have today started reading a library book entitled "Unruly Women:the Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South," by Victoria E. Bynum, pub'd by UNC Press, Chapel Hill in 1992. It really covers a later period in history than the one the below message pertain to. According to this book, there was a DELPHINA MENDENHALL, "an educated, well-do-do woman from an illustrious Quaker family, [who] helped organize an underground movement of slaves to the North that was very active in Randolph County NC" in the 1850s . "Her unwavering antislavery convictions may have influenced her husband, a slaveholding lawyer who had fallen away from the Quaker faith, to defend the Rev. Crooks and McBride against the state's charges of sedition. Immediately following her husband's death in 1860, Delphina Mendenhall freed the slaves he had passed on to her." This is the only reference to the name Mendenhall in the book's index, and her husband's first name is not given. I have only begun the book, but I believe the two Reverends must have been active abolitionists in the NC Piedmont before the Civil War. Betty Pace Prior messages: