Long-time Culpeper researchers Jim and Louise Hodge told me that there was a sizable Quaker presence in Culpeper County.  Some names were Cowgills, Garwoods, Sharps, and Euans families.  Most of these ended up in Logan and Champaign Counties in Ohio.  Some of the Culpeper Quakers came from Burlington County, NJ after the Revolutionary War.   They mentioned Friends of Southland Meeting near Mount Poney and said that records may still exist. (I'd contact the current Monthly Meeting in the area for more information.)   Joan --- On Sun, 3/1/09, SuFrancis@aol.com <SuFrancis@aol.com> wrote: From: SuFrancis@aol.com <SuFrancis@aol.com> Subject: [VACULPEP] Quakers in Culpeper To: VACULPEP@rootsweb.com Date: Sunday, March 1, 2009, 8:37 PM Was there a Quaker population in Culpeper and, if so, where would the records for the church be? I have ancestors from Culpeper who moved to Indiana in the 1820s because of strong antislavery sentiments. I can't find records for them in Virginia and thought they might have been Quakers...

I find this interesting. Bowen family 'this & that' notes record family oral history. James BOWEN (b. 1790) who married Ann FOUSHEE in 1815 in Culpeper County is said to be of a 'Quaker background.' All the family, though, seems to be Baptists...in records, such as I have found. I do have a citation somewhere that the FOUSHEEs were Episcopalian. The BOWENs of Culpeper area are said to have been generally anti-slavery yet most were slave-owners; however, they openly educated their slaves, are said to have kept families intact, etc. One of the notes relates James' "Welsh temper" and that he was quite educated. On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Joan Horsley <jhorsley46@yahoo.com> wrote: > Long-time Culpeper researchers Jim and Louise Hodge told me that there was > a sizable Quaker presence in Culpeper County. Some names were Cowgills, > Garwoods, Sharps, and Euans families. Most of these ended up in Logan and > Champaign Counties in Ohio. Some of the Culpeper Quakers came from > Burlington County, NJ after the Revolutionary War. > > They mentioned Friends of Southland Meeting near Mount Poney and said that > records may still exist. (I'd contact the current Monthly Meeting in the > area for more information.) > > Joan > > > --- On Sun, 3/1/09, SuFrancis@aol.com <SuFrancis@aol.com> wrote: > > From: SuFrancis@aol.com <SuFrancis@aol.com> > Subject: [VACULPEP] Quakers in Culpeper > To: VACULPEP@rootsweb.com > Date: Sunday, March 1, 2009, 8:37 PM > > Was there a Quaker population in Culpeper and, if so, where would the > records for the church be? I have ancestors from Culpeper who moved to > Indiana in > the 1820s because of strong antislavery sentiments. I can't find records > for > them in Virginia and thought they might have been Quakers... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VACULPEP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Kathleen Bowen Simons Falls Church, Virginia IMAGE - a No. VA Christian church whose mission is simple: Worship. Community. Service. www.thisisimage.com (click on the Audio icon to hear Pastor Chris' messages!) Listen to a beautiful song, "Feel the Ocean Calling," by Roderick C. Simons: http://www.myspace.com/roderickcsimons