To those interested, here is an obscure (not many folks know of this) passage from Mrs. Douglass Summers Brown's book Lynchburg's Pioneer Quakers and Their Meeting House. SOUTH RIVER-GOOSE CREEK The Counties within the bounds of these two Monthly Meetings, during the whole period of their existence (1757-1847) were: parts of Albemarle and Lunenburg, Bedford, Campbell, Amherst, Halifax, Pitt-Sylvania, Henry, and Patrick. The Particular Meetings (local congregations) within the bounds of the Monthly Meetings were: South River (Bedford-Campbell Counties); Old Goose Creek (Bedford Co.); Upper Goose Creek (Bedford Co.); Bedford or Lower Goose Creek (Bedford Co.); Hips Creek (Campbell Co.); Molley's Creek (Campbell Co.); Halifax - or Creek (Bedford Co.); Kirby's - or Dan River (Halifax Co.). Banister (Halifax Co.); Ivy Creek (Bedford Co.); Kirby's - or Dan River (Halifax Co.). Ed Marsh wrote: > Hi all, > > I wrote a reply yesterday but my computer crashed and it made me so mad I > just quit for the day -- all is lost. > > I descend from four generations of Quakers, the Candler family of bed/cam Co, > VA. I have made a little website on them. It is new so make sure you hit the > "refresh" or Reload" button each time you visit or you'll get the old cookies. > here is the url: > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/9778/ > > >From Hinshaw, Am. Quaker Genealogy, vol.6 > The first members of the monthly meeting were old stock Quakers for the large > part, of English extraction from the tidewater > section of Virginia, especially Cedar Creek and Henrico Monthly Meetings. Among > the first names appearing in the books > are: Hendrake, Johnson, Kirby, Neal, Candler, Lynch, Terrell, Clark, Moorman, > Echols, Payne, Collins, Farmer, Roberts, > Womack, Caldwell and Ayrs. Later in the eighteenth century and prior to the > American Revolution the monthly meeting was > refreshed and strengthened by the southward movement of Quakers from > Pennsylvania and New Jersey, headed for the > Carolinas and Georgia. Many of these migrating Friends became stranded in > Campbell and Bedford Counties and their > presence made this one of the strongholds of the Society in this State. Much of > this “new blood” was of German and Welsh > stock and had drifted south via Hopewell, Fairfax and Goose Creek Monthly > Meetings in northern Virginia. So numerous > did Quakers become in this section between 1775 and 1800 that many new meeting > houses were built and the Society was > for a time, the dominant influence in community affairs. > > Goose Creek Monthly Meeting, in Bedford County (sometimes called “new Goose > Creek”, distinguish it from that one of > the same name in Loudon County) was set off from South River in 1794; but was > laid down in 1812 and the membership > returned to South River Meeting. It included all of the present Bedford County. > The monthly meetings of South River and > Goose Creek petitioned for the right to a quarterly meeting which was granted > and set up under the name of Western > Quarterly Meeting. This quarterly meeting was discontinued in 1817. > > I have some more on "Upper" and "Lower" Goose Creek in Bedford, Co. Will post > later. > > Ed > > VJyizit@aol.com wrote: > > > Hello Ed, > > > > I'm not Mary but we also are interested in your info. > > > > Probably several of us on this list have Quakers ancestors in the Goose Creek > > MM area. We don't know if ours were Quakers but would love to learn more . > > Please share your info online if that is possible. We weren't aware there > > were records from that area. > > thanks, > > > > Oscar and Jan Williamson > > VJyizit@aol.com > > ==== VABEDFOR Mailing List ==== > To signoff this list, send a message with ONLY the word unsubscribe > to: VABEDFOR-L-request@rootsweb.com OR > to: VABEDFOR-D-request@rootsweb.com IF in digest mode.