--part1_6f.342a186d.2b6107de_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original e-mail sent with incomplete address. Am forwarding this with correct address to SC-OLD96-L@rootsweb.com. Betty --part1_6f.342a186d.2b6107de_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <BLRIC@aol.com> From: BLRIC@aol.com Full-name: BLRIC Message-ID: <1d2.971545.2b61058c@aol.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 03:45:00 EST Subject: Upper SC Research To: SC-OLD96@rootsweb.com CC: BLRIC@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 114 Hi, Since all of us that are OLD96 list members are looking for needle in a haystack, I heard about a new place to look to find my Palmer's who lived in Pendleton District and then Anderson Co., SC, and who I had thought took a spaceship to outer space. I had heard there were two Quaker Meeting Houses in upper SC in the late 1700s and early 1800s. I had read that these Meeting Houses and most of the congregation up and move to Ohio. I had read that a Jesse Palmer in Newberry County, SC, left with them and came back later to Newberry County, SC in his older age. From Ohio, some went in to other parts of the country, usually following the Quakers. However, any move will probably listed in the Minutes. The two Meeting Houses in SC are as follows: 1. Bush River Meeting in Newberry County, South Carolina. 2. Cane Creek Meeting House in Union County, SC. However, the Quakers kept wonderful records. The records of their Minutes of their Meetings reflect names of members, birth records, marriage records, and death records, etc. I read that about 1802, moved by a desire to live in a country where no slaves were held, Friends of Bush River began migration to Ohio. Between 1802 and 1807 more than one hundred certificates of removal were issued, most of them being for families. This so depleted the membership that the monthly meeting seem to have been all but abandoned in 1808, though not formally laid down until 1822. Much the same thing happened to Cane Creek Meeting House per records. The "The Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy" by W.W. Hinshaw have recorded the Minutes of these Minutes, including names of members. I put in on Keyword on my computer: Quakers and South Carolina It got me into a site that told about these Quakers in Bush River and Cane Creek. This got me into some bits of the Hinshaw Quaker Records, it listed names of members that left SC. I am sure it was not as complete as the Hinshaw Encyclopedias, but you may find your missing ancestor. I found out one of the Volumes has minutes pertaining to NC and SC, and another Volumes have minutes and names of members in Ohio. When you get into this site. try different links, it names some members that were in GA and NC. Thought I would pass this on. Maybe our ancestors did not go to outer space after all......they just moved to Ohio. I will relate what happened that caused me to look into the Quaker records. For 17 years I have been looking for the father of my gggf CHANDLER PALMER, b: abt 1800 and raised a family in Anderson Co., SC. Someone saw my query and wrote me she saw a name in a Quaker Cemetery in Iowa by the name of CHANDLER PALMER, b: ca 1774. (26 older than my gggf) The information she had was that this was the Harrison Friends Cemetery, and was named Harrison because these people were from Ohio. Me and a cousin in Salt Lake City who has been searching for this missing father to our Chandler Palmer are now searching this out. It may not be, however, it may my missing ancestor. Theory: Chandler Palmer, Sr., have joined the Quakers and moved with them to Ohio. Chandler Palmer, Jr., have stayed near relatives in SC with his family. Once in Ohio, some of the Quakers moved further west. This may or may not be my missing ancestor.....but this is an example how these folks moved around. When our research is completed, I will let folks know if he is indeed my missing ancestor. Betty --part1_6f.342a186d.2b6107de_boundary--