In a message dated 12/3/08 8:56:17 AM, [email protected] writes: > I am very interested to know more about the trip of Rachel Wright and > Abigail Overman who was my husband's ancestress. > > Kay in Tennessee > > > ------------------------------- > Kay, included herein is an account of Abagail Overman Pike and Rachel Wright's(my gggggggrandmother) 200 mile trip to the coast to establish Cane Creek as a meeting.: CAROLINA QUAKERS - OUR HERITAGE OUR HOPE - 1672-1972 by Seth B Hinshaw and Mary Edith Hinshaw, page 23: "Abigail Pike - Pioneer Woman" During the seventeen-thirties John and Abigail Pike were living in the "Pasquotank Precient." Hearing that a new Meeting, Hopewell, had been established in Frederick Co., VA, they felt a concern to go and add their strength to the new Quaker settlement. Abigail was a minister. Almost hurriedly, so the story goes, they made ready for the journey. At this time they had two small children, Sarah and Anne. During the eleven years that they lived in the Hopewell community, the number of children increased to eight. When a number of Quakers from Pennsylvania came through the Hopewell community headed toward the Piedmont section of North Carolina, once again John and Abigail Pike felt led to leave their home, and to start life all over again in a new settlement. In a few months a home was built on the bank of Cane Creek. In early 1751 when the youngest and tenth child, Nathan, was almost two, Abigail said to Cane Creek Friends, 'If Rachel Wright will go with me, we will attend Quarterly Meeting at Little River in Perquimans County and ask that a Meeting be set up here.' Friends concurred. Thus it was that these two women rode horseback two hundred miles through the wilderness to Quarterly Meeting, and made the return trip home safely, mission accomplished. Cane Creek Meeting was set up June 31, 1751. Abigail Pike next helped in the establishment of New Garden Meeting, thirty-five miles to the west, through more wilderness country. The direct descendants of this courageous pioneer woman are now scattered all across the state, and indeed all across the nation. The one-room log structure known as "the Abigail Pike house" was used as a classroom in the early days of the Sylvan Academy. Howard W Cook ************** Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010)