In her mailings to the Quaker-Roots website dated 01/23/2005, Violet Moore Guy lists data from a Mendenhall Family Association database which includes the family of Richard Mendenhall (1737-1773), son of Mordecai Mendenhall and Charity Beeson.This data indicates that Richard Mendenhall married Jane Thornbrugh, b. 1737 New Garden, Guilford Co, NC. Richard and Jane were married 24 June 1758,New Garden, Guilford Co, NC. It is stated that Richard Mendenhall was born 01 Nov 1737 In Orange County, VA. It is my understanding that Mordecai and Charity (Beeson) Mendenhall moved from Lancaster County, PA to Berkeley County (now West Virginia) with members of the extended family of Richard and Charity (Grubb) Beeson in 1735/36. Under the leadership of Richard and Charity Beeson, a Friends Meeing was organized called Providence Meeting or "Beesons' Meeting", which was a subordinant Meeting of Hopewell Monthly Meeting, centered near Winchester, VA. Therefore, it is likely that Richard Mendenhall was born in Berkeley County, VA. Mordecai and Charity (Beeson) and family moved to the vicinity of present day High Point in Guilford County, NC about 1751, carrying with them a minute dated the 6th of 3rd mo. 1751 from Hopewell MM to Cane Creek MM, NC. The Mendenhall family became members of New Garden MM, NC when New Garden MM was set off from Cane Creek MM, NC ca. 1754. The Mendenhalls became members of Deep River MM, NC when Deep River MM was set off from New Garden MM . The Mordecai Mendenhall family were probably among the original members of Springfield Meeting, which was set off from Deep River MM as Springfield MM ca 1815. I believe that there is an entry in the 1758 minutes of New Garden MM that Richard Mendenhall and Jane Thornbury were reported married. ---- About 1976, when I was living in the Philadelphia area, I did extensive research to endeavor to ascertain the parentage of Jane Thornbury. I became fairly well satisfied that she was a descendant of Edward Thornbrough whose family first appears in the records of Lurgan MM in northern Ireland. Probably he had been married at least twice. About 1708 he was censured by Lurgan MM for marriage out of unity with the Meeting. Probably this was his second marriage. About 1718 the Lurgan MM rather reluctantly granted him a certificate to settle in the Pennsylvania area. He settled first in Christiana Hundred in northern New Castle County, DE, but didn't get around to presenting his certificate to Newark MM (now Kennett MM) until 1725. About 1727 Edward Thornbrough moved his younger family to Warwick Twp., Lancaster County, PA, where he died in 1734, leaving a will. It appears to me that Walter Thornbrough, one of the older children of Edward Thornbrough, may have rather taken charge of Edward Thornbrough's younger family after their father's death. He had already been a landholder in Chester County, PA. In 1739 he is listed among those who witnessed a Quaker wedding in Berkeley County, VA. There are records of various land transactions of Walter Thornbrough in Berkeley County up to about 1756. Then he appears in Guilford County, NC Quaker records as Walter Thornbrough of Deep River. In North Carolina, hiis family apparently lived in close proximity to the family of Mordecai and Charity (Beeson) Mendenhall. The Thornbroughs and Mendenhalls were probably well acquainted during their sojourn in Berkeley County, VA, and also in Lancaster County, PA. I am inclined to believe that the Lucy Thornbury who married Richard Mendenhall in Guilford County, NC was a daughter of Walter Thornbrough. I cannot prove it. I am not sure of her mother's name. In his earlier years, Walter Thornbrough may have been married to a Hannah Davis. In later years, his wife seems to have been Margaret.----- The other best possibility as to the parentage of Lucy Thornbury is that she could have been the Jean Thornbrough who is mentioned among the younger children in the will of Edward Thornbrough of Warwick, Lancaster County, PA. If so, she would have had to be an infant at the time of Edward's death in 1734. Otherwise she would have been much older than Richard Mendenhall, born in 1737. It is my understanding that there were few Quaker settlers in Guilford County, NC until about 1750, when a large settlement from Chester County, PA and surrounding areas began. Therefore, it is very unlikely that Jane Thornbrugh was born in North Carolina. It is more likely that she was born in Berkeley County (now West Virginia) or possibly in Chester or Lancaster County in Pennsylvania. I am a descendant of Richard and Jane (Thornbury) Mendenhall through their son, John Mendenhall, who married Ruth Brown. --- Herbert Standing, Earlham, Iowa.

Besides Boone family and Mendenhall family. Does anyone know the surnames for the families? I am looking for Martins, Evans, Smiths, Reeds, Claytons, Taylor, Cox and others. Janet -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.1 - Release Date: 1/27/2005