The following is an excerpt from "Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol 6". This Vol. covers Va. and NC. meeting minutes. "The Society of Friends was first planted in Virginia on the Eastern Shore and then in the region south of the lower James River which area is penetrated by the Nansemond and Elizabeth Rivers. All the meetings in the counties there are closely related by both ties of blood and organization. The same families which first settled Isle of Wight County, later moved on into Nansemond, and in the period 1660-63 almost every Quaker family sent members to become the first settlers of the state of North Carolina. Wheeler in his History of North Carolina, says, The first permanent settlement (i.e. in Perquimans Co.) was formed after the expulsion of the Quakers from Virginia in 1662. So one should not be surprised to find the same family names in all these places. Because the earliest Quakers of Isle of Wight County were either so new in the faith or were laboring under such severe persecution, they left little of a positive nature concerning the history of their beginnings as a religious group. The fact that so many were recent converts accounts for the apparent lack of any true understanding of Friends discipline or any authentic or proper organization in their meetings before 1672." Pat C. Johns in Va.