Taken from the Quaker list, but of interest to Jefferson Co. w/Quaker roots. -----Original Message----- From: Gary Wade <ichthus@busprod.com> To: QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com <QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, January 11, 1999 2:07 AM Subject: Stillwater Meeting-House >Here is some information that I came across and thought it might be of >interest to some of you. > >"Friends' Stillwater Meeting-House" >by Jonathan Schofield >Taken from "History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties" > >About one-half of the eastern part of Warren township was originally >settled almost >exclusively by Friends, commonly called Quakers. >They came chiefly from the southern states, many of the pioneers being >the heads of young >and growing families, were stimulated to the movement by a desire to >remove without the >blighting influence of human slavery, against which their religious >principles required >them to bear a consistent testimony, and being unwilling that their >children should grow up >in the midst of its corrupting influences, they left, in many instances >good lands in a >genial clime, to set themselves down to a life of privations and >hardships incident to >pioneer life in the forest north of the Ohio river. >Robert Plummer and family were probably the first Friends who settled >here, about the year >1801. They came from Frederick county, Maryland; and family tradition >tells us that five >day's time was necessarily occupied by them in making their way through >from the open road >where Morristown now is to this neighborhood. There was no road, and a >way had to be made >as they progressed. >From the lips of Robert Hodgin, now of Barnesville, seventy-four years >of age, we get the >following tradition: That his father and William Patten, in company, >left their homes in >Georgia and came prospecting in 1802; that they crossed the Ohio river >at Cincinnati and >looked over the Miami country, but did not like it, thinking that it >would be sickly. They >therefore came on to Belmont and Jefferson counties, and determined this >to be the locality >for their future homes; therefore they made arrangements with Jonathan >Taylor, a Friend, of >Mt. Pleasant township, Jefferson county, to secure them a section of >land from the >government, as no less than a section was then subject to entry, and >they returned home to >make preparation for moving the next season. They had to swim their >horses through all the >unfordable streams this side of Cincinnati. >The next season (in 1803) came the Hodgins' that is, Robert's father, >William and his >brother Stephen, the Pattens, the Todds and Bailey Hays, with their >families. (The Hayses >were not Friends, and Deborah Stubbs, a young woman, emigrated, and >Joseph Stubbs, >Deborah's father, came along prospecting). Their route lay through >Virginia, and their >vehicles of conveyance were the well-known southern one-horse carts. >They camped of nights >on their journey. >Within the next five years, from 1803 to 1808, they came in >companies-the Williams', >part of the Millhouses Childrees, Sidwells, Thomases and Vernons, from >Georgia; the >Starbucks, but recently from Nantucket; the Pattersons, Bundys, >Stantons, Edgertons, >Doudnas, Boswells, Coxes, Brocks, Outlands, Halls, Colliers, Middletons >and Hausons, from >North Carolina; the Baileys, Davies, some of the Vernons, and Hickses, >from Southeastern >Virginia, and the Clendennens, Strahls, Smiths and Whites, from >Pennsylvania. The exact >dates of the arrival of the various families before 1808 is difficult >now to ascertain. > >I'll try to send more of this article soon. > > >==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >Post a Quaker Query - http://www.rootsweb.com/~quakers/queries.htm > > > > >