The first article that I am reading today is an article on Fruit Hill Quaker Meeting. The article is by Tony Lowe. It appeared in the Carroll County Chronicles VOL 23, No4, Dugspur Vol 2. This is the journal of the Carroll County Historical Society. I do not think that any of the information found in this article is anything that you could not find or would not already have from other sources. However Mr. Lowe has compiled a great deal of information about the families in a particular community including information about where they came from and places that they moved after their residence in the area that would now be in Carroll County. Mr. Lowe seems to think that Quakers may have been meeting at Fruit Hill as early as 1797. So it is unlikely that my Elliott family ever had any involvement as I believe that they had moved back to Randolph County by that date. Mr. Lowe says that all of the congregations in Carroll and Grayson were a part of the same MM so records were recorded in the minutes of Mount Pleasant MM. A few entries in the minutes identify people as belonging to the Fruit Hill group. However, the author has made the assumption that the Quakers who lived on or near Burks Fork belonged to Fruit Hill. I googled Burks Fork: http://virginia.hometownlocator.com/maps/feature-map,ftc,1,fid,1464117,n,burks%20fork.cfm to find that the area that we are talking about is near Hillsville, VA....just southeast ..... The families that seem to have been there using that criteria and according to Mr. Lowe are: Beales (owned land on Pine Creek), Stanley (Zachariah Stanley bought land on Burks Fork in 1792), Robinson (Nicholas and John Robinson, Jr. were among the original trustees of the Fruit Hill meeting property), Williams (Richard son of George. Richard was married to Prudence Beales), Jessop (Thomas Jessop, Jr. had 400 acres on Burk's Fork--three other siblings also had ties to Fruit Hill according to Mr. Lowe), Greene (Isaac Greene acquired a tract of land that covered a good portion of wht is now Hillsville), Hoggart (Samuel's son David married Dorcas Williams--the daughter of Richard and Prudence Beales Williams and acquired land from his uncle Zachariah Stanley on Burks Fork), Hiatt (Absolem Hiat--son of John Hiatt and Rachel Wilson--married Anne Reece and the couple lived on land that her father, David Reece had acquired from Zachariah Stnley....also son Absolem, John, lived on Burks Fork....perhaps also some grandchildren), Reece (David married to Elizabeth Babb--moved to Grayson County before 1805 when they owned land on Big reed Island Creek), Bell (brothers Moore and Nathan owned land on Burks Fork), Coffin (Libni married to Elizabeth Macy, and William married to Hannah Iddings---on land he acquired from Zachariah Stanley on Burks Fork), Pearson (MarkPearson married to Elizabeth Lamb purchased land from Zachariah Stanley), Thomas (William Thomas son of Joseph and Sarah married Mary Bond was disowned from Fruit Hill i 1801), Morris (Thomas Morris, son of Zachariah and his son Aaron were granted certificates to Fruit Hill from Westfield i 1798), Horton ...I am not clear on Horton connection, Jones (Isaac Jones purchased a tract of land on Grassy Creek in 1792) There is one more family mentioned in the article: Bedsaul....however, the author says that Elisha and John Bedsaul both appear on Flower Swift's miltia list ....I think that I am interpreting this correctly....and according to my understanding as I begin studying this area that would place them in the Chestnut Creek area rather than the Burks Fork area. This is a very interesting article. Perhaps someone could contact that Carroll County Historical Society to see if copies of the Chronicles or copies of this article are available through them. I could not find a phone number for them to find if permission could be obtained from Mr. Lowe or from their organization to share the entire article. However there is an e-mail on their website: hscc@carr.org If someone is interested and wants to follow up on reading the entire article. Marsha Moses