This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adams, Clark, Lynch Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AC.2ACE/1248.3 Message Board Post: Mike, As Janet pointed out in her reply, the minutes often read much like Quaker minutes. In following many of my ancestors tracks, many were members of the South River MM and Goose Creek MM in Bedford/Campbell Co's. Eventually, as the issue of slavery and the coming Rev. War separated out sides, I find many of my excommunicated Quakers becoming members of what was then Stinking River Meeting in northern Pittsylvania Co. Reading those minutes can be comical as well, when you find this one and that brought before the members for what, today, we think of as minor infractions. In one case, I found William Dove was to be questioned about his lack of attendance. His reply was that he was the miller and it was milling time. He was busy making flour for many in the "congregation" and thus was excused during that time period. Those minutes are treasures, though little will be gained as far as dates of marriages, births etc. Given those marriages were basically illegal under the Crown, no one was writing them down, to say the least. The Quakers did, but were often -in the more eastern counties- punished for such. Pittsylvania (as well as Bedford/Campbell) was much more tolerant, probably due to the time frame of the formation of the county. The Crown was already losing it's power, especially in that region and many settled out there for that very reason. Your article is quite informative. One addition would be the Stinking Creek meeting (couldn't be named a church, by law) which is now (or became the ) Greenspring Primitive Baptist Church, still standing and recently celebrated thier 200th anniversary as a church by that name. One of my ancestors, Joel Terrell Adams was a Priimitive or Hardshell Baptist Preacher, as was his brother, John Lynch Adams. Joel T Adams performed many marriages after his licensure in 1810 to preach. Just FYI. They are interesting and it's an important part of the past of the county.