DAR, SAR, and CAR are not concerned solely with combat. At 12:00 AM 7/17/2012, you wrote: >Today's Topics: > > 1. Bush River Monthly Meeting minutes for disownments and > reinstatements during the Revolutionary War. (Kimberly Spangrude) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:24:32 -0600 >From: Kimberly Spangrude <kimspangrude@mac.com> >Subject: [Q-R] Bush River Monthly Meeting minutes for disownments and > reinstatements during the Revolutionary War. >To: QUAKER Roots <quaker-roots@rootsweb.com> >Message-ID: <4791F9A4-ACBA-40E4-850B-96194899BAE6@mac.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII > >Hello, > >I am wondering if someone could look up in Hinshaw the Bush River >Monthly Meeting minutes for a specific date: December 28, 1781 or >December 28, 1782 (Hinshaw reportedly claimed that it was December >29, 1782, but a researcher who is helping me things that this date >may be a mistake, and that it was really in 1781. > >I'm looking for information on John Townsend and his brothers, >William and James, in regard to enlisting in the military during the >Revolutionary War. The meetings for those days will contain the >three disownments of James, William and John. I am also looking for >information on John Townsend's request for restoration of membership >in 1789, which will have a description of why John Townsend joined >the military, and why this was non-Quaker to do. To get his >membership restored, he had to state exactly what it was that he had >done in a non-Quaker manner. "Going to war" is definitely >non-Quaker. If that's what he said that he did, the Revolution was >the only war available in that time-frame.While this John Townsend >is a DAR patriot, when I tried to join the DAR based on John's >service, the DAR decided that the previous information that they had >accepted from as many as 40 plus individuals was not proof of his >military service. > >The original Bush River Monthly Meeting minutes are archived at the >Hege Library at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. The >SLC Family History LIbrary does not have them on film, so I can't >check to see if 1782 date cited by Hinshaw is accurate or not. > >Thank you so much, in advance! > > > >------------------------------ > >To contact the QUAKER-ROOTS list administrator, send an email to >QUAKER-ROOTS-admin@rootsweb.com. > >To post a message to the QUAKER-ROOTS mailing list, send an email to >QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com. > >__________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >QUAKER-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com >with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and >the body of the >email with no additional text. > > >End of QUAKER-ROOTS Digest, Vol 7, Issue 97 >*******************************************