Some genealogists have been trying to locate information regarding Friends Meetings in Spartanburg County, SC, during the colonial era. They had heard of Friends there in mid-1700s, which is most unlikely. I though perhaps it would be useful to post on QR some of the information I sent them for the benefit of other researchers. There were several Quaker families in the present Spartanburg Co, SC, especially on the side nearest to Union Co. Some were so isolated from other Friends that they adopted the "customs of the world" and were assimilated into other groups, especially Methodists. There has never been a Quaker Monthly Meeting in Spartanburg nor is there any record of a local (Preparative or Indulged Meeting) Meeting or worship group there. The Quaker families that lived in Spartanburg Co were members of Bush River Monthly Meeting (Newberry Co) until about 1789 and of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting (Union Co) after 1789. There were two fairly large worship groups or local Meetings in Union County and almost certainly a number of small ones, which lacked the official status of Preparative Meetings (entitled to conduct some types of business but not granting or removing membership or approving marriages, etc.) and which would not have kept records. Padget's Creek and Tyger River were different names for the same Meeting, established as a Preparative Meeting in 1774, which was subdivided into Upper and Lower meetings. Padget's Cr was subordinate to Bush River until 1789 and to Cane Cr Monthy Meeting after that. Something unique, I think, in American Quaker history, almost all of the active members of Cane Creek (including Padgets) moved as a body to the Miami country of Ohio because of their opposition to slavery, not wanting their children to grow up under its influence and finding SC slave laws increasingly dificult to live with. They took the Monthly Meeting Minute book with them, and continued using it for Caesar's Creek Meeting near Wilmington, Ohio. The Cane Creek Meeting as officially laid down and the few remaining members in S.C. transferred to New Garden Monthly Meeting at Greensboro, North Carolina in 1809. I have always suspected that there must have been an unofficial worship group that met in homes in Spartanburg Co, used at least during the Winter and Spring rainy seasons and at other times that travel to Union Co was dangerous or impossible. However, I have found no mention of one in either the Minutes or travel journals kept by visiting ministers. I would be VERY interested in any information anyone finds about a Quaker group in Spartanburg Co. You asked about Quakers in this area in the mid-1700's. The few white settlers in the Spartanburg area in 1750 would have probably been driven out during the Cherokee War. Friends would not have allowed members to encroach on Indian lands illegally. The first Quakers known in the Peidmont of SC were about 1762, but not many came before the late 1760s. The nearest Friends Meetings today are at Greenville and Charlotte. Bill Medlin