Hello All, I had saved this from the Orange Co, NC-L regarding Cane Creek and thought maybe you'd like to see it also. Hope it helps. Marsha -----Original Message----- From: Wright, Lisa [mailto:wright.iog@mhs.unc.edu] Sent: Friday, November 06, 1998 2:29 PM To: NCORANGE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NCORANGE-L] Cane Creek I recently helped someone else with this issue. I live in Siler City, NC approx. 8 miles from Cane Creek located in Snow Camp, Alamance County. It was the original Cane Creek Mother of Meetings where Cornwallis camped. I found a book entitled Cane Creek Mother of Meetings written by Bobbie T. Teague with the help of Wilma Griffin with all of the history about Cane Creek. There are 2 Cane Creeks and I believe this is the reason why. The one in Hillsborough, Orange County is Cane Creek Baptist.: Friends arrived as early as 1749. In it she states that the Cane Creek settlers began meeting. Also since there was such a wide area it would be impossible to name the 30 families mentioned in the minutes but it did name 15 families. Members of the meeting who seem to exercise particular talent were recognized as having a gift of ministry. The individual would be considered a "recorded" minister in the Society of Friends There was also an early meeting at Eno, near Hillsborough . These Friends were charter members of Cane Creek. In fact, there may have been a settlement at Eno before the one at Cane Creek, as there were meetings for worship in that area by 1751. In 1761, a preparative meeting was begun (Newlin 137) Friends at Eno seem to have had an independent spirit somewhat apart from the Quaker mainstream of their time. They did not always conform to what was expected of them. A minute from the women's monthly business meeting, Sixth month 1767, provides the information that a committee of three women was appointed to visit Eno because "they did not attend mid-week meeting." The committee was to "visit them and bring them to a sense of their disorderly conduct." They reported that they had found a luke-warm situation at Eno and recommended the privilege of holding a meeting be taken away. There are other, similar incidents recorded. In July 1767, the Minutes indicate that a different committee was appointed to "stir them up to more diligence in attending meetins for discipline or whatever else the might find." Eventually Eno would become a subordinate of Spring Meeting. By 1847, it became necessary to lay down the meeting (Newline 137). The site of the Eno Meeting was one mile north of Hillsborough on the Eno River in Orange county. This is just a side note from me. Alamance County use to be a part of Orange county. Hope this helps Lisa ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - LarryNoah@juno.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Visit our host - RootsWeb at http://www.rootsweb.com/ List website - http://members.tripod.com/~lrnoah/NCOrange/