Poldi, I had Nantucket Quaker family lines who moved to the Guilford County, NC area just before the Revolution. I haven't yet found a difinitive account of just how they made the trip. But I absolutely agree with you that it is most likely to have been via water. The people of Nantucket were seagoing. It is my gut feeling until I find documentation that either supports or negates my theory that they arrived in the port of > During the early eighteenth century, Edenton, NC was the second > largest port in the colonies. Here is a map showing the location of Edenton http://www.nchistoricsites.org/maps/eastern.htm And it seems to me that Edenton is in Perquimans County which had a large Quaker population. It would make sense to me that they would land there and get help from fellow Quakers to move inland from the port. So I absolutely agree that one can not rule out the southern ports such as Charleston and Savannah as the route that the Newberry ancestors might have used. Someone at the Homecoming told me that Charleston also had a large Quaker population in the 1700's. Marsha Moses Poldi Tonin wrote: >Ladies: >You have supplied interesting information on the roads and their rough >conditions. >Pleased to be able to add that to my little book of facts. > >Another travel route I have read about and which is often overlooked is that >of the coastal ship routes. The Quakers could have left from Philadelphia >(the Colonies largest port) and traveled under better circumstances to >Charleston, SC or perhaps Savannah. > >On one S.C. land document for my Welsh Davis family is a cryptic note "from >Georgia." >This family settled in Camden on Pine Tree Creek. > >Poldi > > > > > > > > >

Marsha and all: On my blog I have a list of books that I have read and recommend. One is about the pre-Revolutionary War period in Rhode Island and the slave traders and Quakers. There are many, many references to the folks "going visiting" by ship to Connecticut and Philadelphia. Also references to trade ships going to the Carolinas and other ports coming and going to Africa and the Islands. Rather wary of recommending books on lists because some administrators think that is commercialism. Poldi On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:56 AM, marsha moses <[email protected]> wrote: > Poldi, I had Nantucket Quaker family lines who moved to the Guilford > County, NC area just before the Revolution. I haven't yet found a > difinitive account of just how they made the trip. But I absolutely > agree with you that it is most likely to have been via water. The > people of Nantucket were seagoing. It is my gut feeling until I find > documentation that either supports or negates my theory that they > arrived in the port of > > > During the early eighteenth century, Edenton, NC was the second > > largest port in the colonies. > > > Here is a map showing the location of Edenton > > http://www.nchistoricsites.org/maps/eastern.htm > > And it seems to me that Edenton is in Perquimans County which had a > large Quaker population. It would make sense to me that they would land > there and get help from fellow Quakers to move inland from the port. So > I absolutely agree that one can not rule out the southern ports such as > Charleston and Savannah as the route that the Newberry ancestors might > have used. Someone at the Homecoming told me that Charleston also had a > large Quaker population in the 1700's. Marsha Moses > > > Poldi Tonin wrote: > > >Ladies: > >You have supplied interesting information on the roads and their rough > >conditions. > >Pleased to be able to add that to my little book of facts. > > > >Another travel route I have read about and which is often overlooked is > that > >of the coastal ship routes. The Quakers could have left from Philadelphia > >(the Colonies largest port) and traveled under better circumstances to > >Charleston, SC or perhaps Savannah. > > > >On one S.C. land document for my Welsh Davis family is a cryptic note > "from > >Georgia." > >This family settled in Camden on Pine Tree Creek. > > > >Poldi > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- "She is insane, of course. The family history has become a mania for her." Hercule Poirot http://www.FrontPorchRockerNews.blogspot.com http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Langford This project includes Lankford spelling also. "Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical." --Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson, 1810

Book recommendations are welcome on the list, along with brief discussions of their contents as they pertain to our discussions of our Southern Quakers and their ancestors. JudyR, list admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Poldi Tonin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 8:06 PM Subject: Re: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] The roads crept south... > Marsha and all: > On my blog I have a list of books that I have read and recommend. One is > about the pre-Revolutionary War period in Rhode Island and the slave > traders > and Quakers. > There are many, many references to the folks "going visiting" by ship to > Connecticut and Philadelphia. Also references to trade ships going to the > Carolinas and other ports coming and going to Africa and the Islands. > > Rather wary of recommending books on lists because some administrators > think > that is commercialism. > > Poldi > > > On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:56 AM, marsha moses <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Poldi, I had Nantucket Quaker family lines who moved to the Guilford >> County, NC area just before the Revolution. I haven't yet found a >> difinitive account of just how they made the trip. But I absolutely >> agree with you that it is most likely to have been via water. The >> people of Nantucket were seagoing. It is my gut feeling until I find >> documentation that either supports or negates my theory that they >> arrived in the port of >> >> > During the early eighteenth century, Edenton, NC was the second >> > largest port in the colonies. >> >> >> Here is a map showing the location of Edenton >> >> http://www.nchistoricsites.org/maps/eastern.htm >> >> And it seems to me that Edenton is in Perquimans County which had a >> large Quaker population. It would make sense to me that they would land >> there and get help from fellow Quakers to move inland from the port. So >> I absolutely agree that one can not rule out the southern ports such as >> Charleston and Savannah as the route that the Newberry ancestors might >> have used. Someone at the Homecoming told me that Charleston also had a >> large Quaker population in the 1700's. Marsha Moses >> >> >> Poldi Tonin wrote: >> >> >Ladies: >> >You have supplied interesting information on the roads and their rough >> >conditions. >> >Pleased to be able to add that to my little book of facts. >> > >> >Another travel route I have read about and which is often overlooked is >> that >> >of the coastal ship routes. The Quakers could have left from >> >Philadelphia >> >(the Colonies largest port) and traveled under better circumstances to >> >Charleston, SC or perhaps Savannah. >> > >> >On one S.C. land document for my Welsh Davis family is a cryptic note >> "from >> >Georgia." >> >This family settled in Camden on Pine Tree Creek. >> > >> >Poldi >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > -- > > "She is insane, of course. The family history has become a mania for her." > Hercule Poirot > > http://www.FrontPorchRockerNews.blogspot.com > > http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Langford > This project includes Lankford spelling also. > > "Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will > eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne > for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical." > --Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson, 1810 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1464 - Release Date: 5/24/2008 > 8:56 AM > >