This is in reply to a quaery from Janet dated 1/23/2009 pertaining to Corneliuw Garretson, son of Garret Garrison. The Garretson family were early members of New Castle, Delaware Friends Meeting. New Castle Meeting, along with the Newark Meeting in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, DE, were the earliest Preparative Meetings of Newark Monthly Meeting (after 1760 called Kennett MM). With the rapid growth of Wilmington Preparativve Meeting (1738-1750), Newark MM was divided in 1750 and Wilmington Preparative Meeting and Newark Preparative Meeting were set off as Wilmington MM. New Castle Preparative Meeting rapidly declined after this and was laid down in 1758. While affiliated with Newark MM, New Castle PM tended to be in the backwaters of Newark MM, with little family data listed in the records which survive. When I was compiling my _Delaware Quaker Records_, ca. 1965-1969, I relied on a secondary source, "Garretson News", a family newsletter published ca. 1940-1960 for data concerning the Garretson family. I found files of this publication in the library of the Historifal Society of Delaware in Wilmington and in other nearby historical libraries. There is an abstract of the will of Garret Garretson in _New Castle County Wills_, Misc.I , p. 139, found in Delaware historical libraries. I have no record of a will for Cornelius Garretson. There is a record from the minutes of Wilmington Monthly Meeting dated 10 mo. 4, 1756: "Cornelius Garretson granted a certificate, on the request of New Castle Preparative Meeting, to West River Monthly Meeting in Maryland." It is my understanding that West River Monthly Meeting at that time was actually called Clifts Monthly Meeting, and perhaps later Herring Creek Monthly Meeting. It was located in Montgomery County, Maryland. The present day Sandy Springs Monthly Meeting is a successor to this Monthly Meeting. Perhaps a copy of the will of Cornelius Garretson can be found in the records of Montgomery County, Maryland. ------ Herbert Standing, Earlham, Iowa. **************From Wall Street to Main Street and everywhere in between, stay up-to-date with the latest news. (http://aol.com?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000023)