Donnell, Thanks so much for the info on the Perkins being Quakers. I had heard that somewhere. I am going to try to get my hands on that book that you mentioned, although we have a very little library in my town, I might be able to get it through inter-library loan. I have had the worst time finding out anything about my family. I can't believe that there isn't ANYONE besides me doing this same family, especially since they had 5 children, and my Perkins lived in Orange/Durham Co area from 1840-1940's, maybe there STILL are some there, for all I know. If you come up with anymore ideas, please let me know,.....I need all the help I can get! Ha, Ha.. Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: <Maestrowz@aol.com> To: <PERKINS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [PERKINS] PERKINS in Orange Co. NC. > Dear Pat, > > I just went through some pages I copied on my own Perkins family and did not > find reference to yours, but thought that you might check this source > yourself. I discovered two years ago that most of the Perkins/Pirkins/Purkins > families in North Carolina were Quakers. Many were read out of meeting later on, but > almost all of them started this way and most were originally from > Pennsylvania or New York. > > Try checking the "Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy" -- by William > Wade Hinshaw. There are several volumes and it is usually found at most good > libraries. The first volume deals with "records and minutes of the > thirty-three oldest monthly meetings which belong, or ever belonged, to the North > Carolina yearly Meeting of Friends (where records are still known to be in > existence)". > > I knew that my particular group was in the Hopewell meeting in Guilford > county, so I did not copy all of the Perkins pages within this and the other > volumes. > > Donnell > > > ==== PERKINS Mailing List ==== > Are your PERKINS out of Illinois, Maine, North Carolina or some other neat place? Tell the Perkins List about it! There is Family behind every tree here! > Our Perkins List Home Page: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sonyapl/ > http://pages.prodigy.net/kathycorriher/EP/EP.htm > Have a Great Perkins Day > > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >

Don't forget that Orange Co became Chatham , I know that there are Perkins there on the census I stumble across the name from time to time Chatham gen web is an awesome site with many records , seems like the Perkins I have come across is Thomas or Timothy this is early like 1800or so also cane creek is in the area and it is the main Quaker site for this area that I have found them . Patricia Caviness Perkins