Samuel Gaunt, his wife Susannah and ttheir children are listed in the Bush River minutes which, by 1808, were kept at the New Garden meeting; this exerpt found at the following website: http://genealogytrails.com/scar/newberry/bush_river_quakers.htm 1809, 6,24. "Extracts from New Garden Quarterly Meeting, 1808,12,10 and 1809,3,10.Friends appointed to visit friends in South Carolina report about 130 members as follows. Cane Creek, Union District: Richard Cox and wife, Ann, and children, Rebeckah, David, Peter, John, Isaac, Richard and William; Isaac Hawkins and children, Jonathan and Phebe; Dinah, Isaac Enoch, Ann and Martha Hollingsworth. Bush River, Newberry District: Ann Herbert, Sr.; Isaac Kirk and wife, Rebekah, and children, Ann Jenkins, Lydia Jenkins, Rebekah Jenkins, Isaac Jenkins and Phebe Kirk; James Brooks and children, David Singleterry, Daniel Offley and Martha; Phebe Pearson, widow; Rebekah Hawkins; Martha Knight; William Wright and wife, Mary, and children, Nathan, Sarah and Rachel; Hugh O'Neal and wife, Ann, and children, John Belton, Abigail, Rebekah, Hannah and Sarah; Rachel Coats; Sarah and Elizabeth Curl; Sarah Campbell; John 0'Neal and wife, Hephziba, and children, Priscilla, Hannaueel, Mark, Achsah, Gary and Hiram; James Jay and wife, Jemimah, and children, Mills, Alexander, Mary, Rhoda, Layton, James, Ede (Edith), Dempsey, Isaac and Sarah; Lydia Herbert and children, Esther, Ann, Eleanor, Martha, Jobe and Lydia; William and David Miles; James Gilbreath (tanner) and wife, Charity, and daughter, Lydia; Hannah Pearson and children, Powel, Robert and Susanna; Ann Herbert and children, Hannah, Isaac, William and Peter; William, Rhoda and John Foster, children of Henry 0'Neal; James, Jr. and John Gilbreath; Benjamin Weeks and wife, Abigail, and children, Susanna, Mary, Hannah, Clary, Abigail and Caron Happock; Robert Evans and wife, Caron Happock, and child, Abigail; Lydia Spears and children, Robert, Mary, Isaac and Moses Evans; Samuel Guant and wife, Susanna, and children, Samuel Kelly, Charles, Publias and Malichi; Hannah and John Kelly; Rebekah Elmore; Wm. Pugh and daughter, Hannah; Thomas O'Neal (now of Union Dist.) and wife, Sarah, and children, Mary, Rebekah and Robert; Sary Longshore and children, Sarah and Clyde. Sent from my iPad On Jan 19, 2012, at 12:48 PM, Martha <dixiepeanut@comcast.net> wrote: > Thanks so much for all of your kind answers to my query. > > It seems that my GAUNTT/TEAGUE family may have 'split off' > from the Bush River Quakers just bf/ 1800. Their descend- > ants continued on South from Laurens & Newberry Co.,SC > while it seems that many of your families went to Ohio, > etc. > > Was there a big split in the Quaker fellowship @ Bush R. > around that time ? > > Thanks, > Martha > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: quaker-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:quaker-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of > quaker-roots-request@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 2:01 AM > To: quaker-roots@rootsweb.com > Subject: QUAKER-ROOTS Digest, Vol 7, Issue 16 > > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Friends? marriage witnesses in 1700?s American Colonies - > did they ... (Linda Peacock) > 2. Re: Friends? marriage witnesses in 1700?s American Colonies - > did they ... (Linda Peacock) > 3. Re: Friends? marriage witnesses in 1700?s American Colonies - > did they have to be members? (Linda Peacock) > 4. To all (Linda Peacock) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:28:18 +0100 > From: "Linda Peacock" <lindapeacock@vip.cybercity.dk> > Subject: Re: [Q-R] Friends? marriage witnesses in 1700?s American > Colonies - did they ... > To: <Dott114029@aol.com>, <QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <C128735D3B5A42698CBECB47B214D125@brugerPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Thank you Dottie. Yes, I would like information about Samuel Woolman. I > descend from John Woolman and Elizabeth Borton. > > Linda > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dott114029@aol.com > To: lindapeacock@vip.cybercity.dk ; QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 9:49 PM > Subject: Re: [Q-R] Friends? marriage witnesses in 1700?s American Colonies > - did they ... > > > In my research on the marriage documents of Quakers, there were three > columns of lists of names. The first column was for male guests to sign. > The middle column was for women guests to sign. The third column on the > right was for the family to sign, the bride and groom usually being first, > then the grooms parents, brides parents and son on down that column. I > could be wrong and I'm sure you will get more information from more > historians, but that's how I understood it to be. I have a little > information on Samuel Woolman who died in 1750 if you want it. > > Dottie > > > In a message dated 1/17/2012 11:54:11 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, > lindapeacock@vip.cybercity.dk writes: > Sorry about the typo! Meant, "were the witnesses also required to be > members?". Figure people get the jest anyway but the message was > garbled. > > Linda > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Linda Peacock" <lindapeacock@vip.cybercity.dk> > To: <QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:41 PM > Subject: [Q-R] Friends? marriage witnesses in 1700?s American Colonies - > did > they have to be members? > > > I am sure someone here will know the answer to my question which is: > Were > the witnesses of Friends? marriages in the 1700?s in the American > Colonies > also have to be members of the faith? Realize that the couple had to be > members, or join if not a prior member. But let?s say one of the > partners > converted to the Friends? faith. Could that person?s Father or Mother be > a > witness? Or could general members of the community be witnesses if it > were? > > Am new at the list. My fault for not joining earlier. My "Quaker" roots > are > pretty well documented and guess that is why. I descend from Woolmans, > Hunts, Coffins, Thornboroughs, Gardners, Sells and many others, via my > paternal grandfather?s Peacock family (the Peacocks being later to > join). My > grandfather, Joseph Donald Peacock, was born a "Quaker" but became a > Methodist, likely because my grandmother was a Methodist. Can share much > > more about the family if anyone is interested in that. > > Yours truly, > Linda Peacock > > ------------------------------- > 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 message > > > ------------------------------- > 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 message > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:30:31 +0100 > From: "Linda Peacock" <lindapeacock@vip.cybercity.dk> > Subject: Re: [Q-R] Friends? marriage witnesses in 1700?s American > Colonies - did they ... > To: "Thomas Hamm" <tomh@earlham.edu>, <Dott114029@aol.com> > Cc: QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <84203A3512FD445089B8562539B0B751@brugerPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > That is very interesting, Tom > > Thank you! > > Linda > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Thomas Hamm > To: Dott114029@aol.com > Cc: lindapeacock@vip.cybercity.dk ; QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:24 PM > Subject: Re: [Q-R] Friends? marriage witnesses in 1700?s American Colonies > - did they ... > > > Stewart Baldwin, who occasionally contributes to this list, wrote an > interesting article on this a few years back. He found that it was the > practice in some Pennsylvania monthly meetings that relatives of the bride > and groom signed in the column below the bride's and groom's signatures. But > it was not uniform. For example, at New Garden, North Carolina, only the > names of twelve witnesses to the marriage were recorded. I have seen some > marriage certificates with only two columns of witness signatures. And I've > seen a number with three columns with men and women intermixed. > > Anyone could attend a Friends meeting for worship. Normally weddings took > place at the conclusion of a midweek meeting for worship. (Thus you can > assume that your Quaker ancestor probably was married on a Wednesday or > Thursday.) So witnesses did not have to be members. > > Tom Hamm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > From: Dott114029@aol.com > To: lindapeacock@vip.cybercity.dk, QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:49:56 PM > Subject: Re: [Q-R] Friends? marriage witnesses in 1700?s American Colonies > - did they ... > > In my research on the marriage documents of Quakers, there were three > columns of lists of names. The first column was for male guests to sign. > The > middle column was for women guests to sign. The third column on the > right > was for the family to sign, the bride and groom usually being first, then > > the grooms parents, brides parents and son on down that column. I could > be > wrong and I'm sure you will get more information from more historians, > but > that's how I understood it to be. I have a little information on Samuel > Woolman who died in 1750 if you want it. > > Dottie > > > In a message dated 1/17/2012 11:54:11 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, > lindapeacock@vip.cybercity.dk writes: > > Sorry about the typo! Meant, "were the witnesses also required to be > members?". Figure people get the jest anyway but the message was > garbled. > > Linda > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Linda Peacock" <lindapeacock@vip.cybercity.dk> > To: <QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:41 PM > Subject: [Q-R] Friends? marriage witnesses in 1700?s American Colonies - > did > they have to be members? > > > I am sure someone here will know the answer to my question which is: Were > > the witnesses of Friends? marriages in the 1700?s in the American > Colonies > also have to be members of the faith? Realize that the couple had to be > members, or join if not a prior member. But let?s say one of the partners > > converted to the Friends? faith. Could that person?s Father or Mother be > a > witness? Or could general members of the community be witnesses if it > were? > > Am new at the list. My fault for not joining earlier. My "Quaker" roots > are > pretty well documented and guess that is why. I descend from Woolmans, > Hunts, Coffins, Thornboroughs, Gardners, Sells and many others, via my > paternal grandfather?s Peacock family (the Peacocks being later to join). > > My > grandfather, Joseph Donald Peacock, was born a "Quaker" but became a > Methodist, likely because my grandmother was a Methodist. Can share much > more about the family if anyone is interested in that. > > Yours truly, > Linda Peacock > > ------------------------------- > 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 message > > > ------------------------------- > 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 message > > > ------------------------------- > 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 message > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:32:28 +0100 > From: "Linda Peacock" <lindapeacock@vip.cybercity.dk> > Subject: Re: [Q-R] Friends? marriage witnesses in 1700?s American > Colonies - did they have to be members? > To: "Forrest Plumstead" <fplum1@gmail.com> > Cc: QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <0CB6F87786A04557BCDB23AC44AFC7A4@brugerPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Excellent, Forrest > > Thank you! > > Linda > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Forrest Plumstead > To: Linda Peacock > Cc: QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:39 PM > Subject: Re: [Q-R] Friends? marriage witnesses in 1700?s American Colonies > - did they have to be members? > > > Hi Linda welcome to the group! > > > If genealogy is addicting then Quaker genealogy is an epidemic! > > > To answer your question Gwen Bjorkman writes in the introduction to her > book Quaker Marriage Certificates - Pasquotank, Perquimans, Piney Woods, and > Suttons Creek Monthly Meetings, North Carolina, 1677-1800 > > > "Not all of the subscribing witnesses were North Carolinians (many > Virginians may be noted) nor were they all Quakers. The name of Paul Palmer, > the first Baptist minister in North Carolina. appears in Perquimans along > with Government officials (and Anglicans) Thomas Harvey, Thomas Harding, > Henry Clayton, and Richard Everard (It can not be determined whether the > last was Governor Everard or his son.) Attendance by such public figures may > have been merely a neighborly act, but their presence may have imparted a > sanction to Quaker marriages which were (until 1778) often regarded as > irregular if not illicit." > > > Hope this helps > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Linda Peacock > <lindapeacock@vip.cybercity.dk> wrote: > > Sorry about the typo! Meant, "were the witnesses also required to be > members?". Figure people get the jest anyway but the message was > garbled. > > Linda > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Linda Peacock" <lindapeacock@vip.cybercity.dk> > To: <QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:41 PM > Subject: [Q-R] Friends? marriage witnesses in 1700?s American Colonies - > did > they have to be members? > > > I am sure someone here will know the answer to my question which is: > Were > the witnesses of Friends? marriages in the 1700?s in the American > Colonies > also have to be members of the faith? Realize that the couple had to be > members, or join if not a prior member. But let?s say one of the > partners > converted to the Friends? faith. Could that person?s Father or Mother be > a > witness? Or could general members of the community be witnesses if it > were? > > Am new at the list. My fault for not joining earlier. My "Quaker" roots > are > pretty well documented and guess that is why. I descend from Woolmans, > Hunts, Coffins, Thornboroughs, Gardners, Sells and many others, via my > paternal grandfather?s Peacock family (the Peacocks being later to > join). My > grandfather, Joseph Donald Peacock, was born a "Quaker" but became a > Methodist, likely because my grandmother was a Methodist. Can share much > more about the family if anyone is interested in that. > > Yours truly, > Linda Peacock > > ------------------------------- > 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 message > > > ------------------------------- > 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 message > > > > > > > -- > 73 > WB5HQO Forrest > Ham Radio WB5HQO http://forrest.3h.com/main.html > Plumstead and Associated Families: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fplum/ > > NAQCC Member # 3678 FPQRP # 2642 > SKCC Member # 6855 QRPadillo # 59 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:30:53 +0100 > From: "Linda Peacock" <lindapeacock@vip.cybercity.dk> > Subject: [Q-R] To all > To: <QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <FAAC706AA25F435D84A6C890D7C5FF27@brugerPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > To everyone > > Thank you so much for your responses. You have been very helpful. And yes, > to Forrest, Quaker genealogy is addictive. Also, I have heard from many > Cousins here today and that is nice. Looks like many of us are related. > > Linda > > ------------------------------ > > 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 16 > ******************************************* > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 message