John & Sarah (Woolard/Willard) of Suttons Creek MM (Perquimans Co., NC, requested certificates, May 11, 1811, to join Deep River MM, Guilford Co., NC. Deep River rec'd the cert. 8 Jul & 5 Aug 1811 & endorsed them to New Garden MM, then in Guilford Co. . New Garden rec'd the cert. 31 Aug 1811 & returned them to Deep River MM, 29 May 1813. Deep River MM rec'd the cert., 5 Jul 1813 & granted certificates to White Water MM, Harrison [sic] Co., IN (Whitewater MM, Wayne Co., IN?) 6 Sep 1813. John, Sarah & children are next found in Crawford Co., IL, on 1820 census. I find no further evidence of members of this family being members of the Society of Friends. But, other than what is in Hinshaw"s Encyclopedia, I find little information online. I'd appreciate anything that others can dig up. My last Evans connection was my mother's maternal grandmother, Mary (Evans) [Moore] b. 1853, IL, & last found on the 1930 census, at age 73, a health practitioner for the Christian Science Church.

On Sat, 18 May 2013 16:06:06 -0400 (EDT) willow703@aol.com wrote: > John & Sarah (Woolard/Willard) of Suttons Creek MM (Perquimans Co., >NC, requested certificates, > May 11, 1811, to join Deep River MM, Guilford Co., NC. Deep River >rec'd the cert. 8 Jul & 5 Aug 1811 & endorsed them to New Garden MM, >then in Guilford Co. . New Garden rec'd the cert. 31 Aug 1811 & > returned them to Deep River MM, 29 May 1813. Deep River MM rec'd the >cert., 5 Jul 1813 & granted > certificates to White Water MM, Harrison [sic] Co., IN (Whitewater >MM, Wayne Co., IN?) 6 Sep 1813. John, Sarah & children are next found >in Crawford Co., IL, on 1820 census. > I find no further evidence of members of this family being members >of the Society of Friends. But, other > than what is in Hinshaw"s Encyclopedia, I find little information >online. I'd appreciate anything that > others can dig up. My last Evans connection was my mother's maternal >grandmother, Mary (Evans) > [Moore] b. 1853, IL, & last found on the 1930 census, at age 73, a >health practitioner for the Christian > Science Church. > I am unable to find any record of this couple in Hinshaw's Encyclopedia, having looked for Willards in the sections for Deep River, New Garden, and Suttons Creek. In the section for Suttons Creek, I do find five certificates dated 1814,4,9, from Suttons Creek to "Lick Creek MM, Harrison County, Ind." The five are for: Josep, minor, s Daniel; Joseph & s Thomas, Cyprian & Exum; Peninah & dt Mary, Susanna, Clarky, Rebekah & Elva; Margaret; and Elizabeth. Ialso see a Daniel Willard received into membership in 1800, then disowned for marriage contraty to discipline in February 1814. Lick Creek Meeting is located in Paoli, which is now located in Orange County. When it was founded in 1813, Orange County had not yet been created. Orange County was formed in 1816 from parts of Washington, Knox, and Gibson Counties. Washington County was formed in 1814 from Clark, Harrison and Jefferson Counties. It is not clear to me if Lick Creek Meeting was ever located in Harrison County, but it given these scraps of county history, it does seem possible. Lick Creek meeting did receive the five certificates from Suttons Creek on 7-30-1814. In 1817, the marriages of Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel and Sarah of Orange County to Aaron Guier, and of Margaret daughter of Martin and Rachel to Roberet Holaday, are recorded. Honey Creek Meeting in Vigo County, Indiana, was set off from Lick Creek in 1820. I do see mention of Joseph Willard in those minutes in 1820 and 1822, of Daniel in 1824, and of Penina in 1825. In the Hicksite-Orthodox split of 1828, it appears most members were Hicksite. Memberships of those siding with the Orthodox were attached to the Bloomfield meeting. Willards mentioned in Honey Creek (Hicksite) records include Exum in 1832 (disowned), Clarkey in 1834 (m Robert Reynolds), Joseph (dis in 1835, rec back in 1840) and Martin in 1841 (disowned). Bloomfield records mention Joseph, Penina, Clarkey, and Eva in 1829 (disowned for disunity), Exum disowned in 1832, Cyprian disowned 1838, and Martin disowned in 1840. I am finding all these Indiana records in /Abstracts of the records of the Society of Friends in Indiana/ by Willard Heiss. This History of Blue River Quarterly Meeting may be useful. http://quaker.org/urbana/A%20Brief%20History%20of%20Blue%20River%20Quarterly%20Meeting.htm -- Dan Treadway P. O. Box 72 Gilbert IA 50105 treadway@netins.net http://showcase.netins.net/web/treadway/