"By 1750 these Quaker colonist from the north were making contact with the Quakers from long-established Meetings in lower Virginia, and the tide of Quaker migration pressed southward into the Carolinas and Georgia. " Actually the Quakers in North Carolina date from earlier. Pasquotank Monthly Meeting (later Symons Creek) has recorded minutes from 1699 although meetings were held earlier. These Quakers came directly from England, like my ancesors in 1682. Mary Trueblood, who was a daughter of this immigrant couple & born in 1684 married a Stephen Richardson probably n Pasquotank County.