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