Notes for Samuel Stanfield
Burial: Greene Co.,Tennessee
Locate: May 04, 1771, Cane Creek MM, NC (disowned, md out of unity)
Locate-2: December 07, 1799, New Hope MM, TN
Locate-3: 1808, disowned in 1808 at Newhope MM, Tennessee
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Courtesy of Mary Bittick Gallano:
Samuel Stanfield, son of John and Hannah Hadley.
Greeneville, One Hundred Year Portrait (1775-1875) by Richard Harrison Doughty, Greeneville, TN 1975 (Lib Congress #74-28678).
First Twenty-Five Years of the Nineteenth Century in Greeneville, p31:
Following the organization of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee in 1813, No. 3 was the number assigned to the Greeneville Lodge, and in 1815, the following roster is given: ... John Stanfield. (per Comstock, p2)
First Twenty-Five Years of the Nineteenth Century in Greeneville, p.43:
The Quakers and Manumission. The census of 1790 mentioned the existence of slavery in Greene County. About that same year a large number of Quakers or Friends began to come into the county from Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Among these Quaker pioneers were William Reese, Garrett and Peter Dillion, William and Abraham Smith, Solomon, David and John B. Beales, Samuel and Mordecia Ellis, Abraham Marshall, Samuel Pearson, SAMUEL STANFIELD, and George Hayworth. The presence of the name, Quaker Knobs, attests to the importance of this sect in early Greene County. Various meeting houses were established in the vicinity of Rheatown and on Lick Creek. The New Hope Monthly Meeting was established in 1795, and acquired land for a church in that year on June from Samuel Frazier. The grant was made to William Reese, George Hayworth, Ellis Ellis and Samuel Ellis for three pounds, two shillings of Virginia money.
While some of these Quakers were slaveholders, a large majority was opposed to the institution of slavery, and it was among these people that the first Society for emancipation of the Negro slave in America originated. The first branch of the Tennessee Manumission Society was organized in Jefferson County on February 25, 1815. Soon after societies were formed in Green, Sullivan, Washington, Cocke and Knox Counties.
On November 21, 1815, the first general convention of this society was held at Lick Creek Meeting House of Friends in Greene County. The second annual convention was held on November 19 and 20, 1816 in Greeneville. Very little is known of the history or members of this society. However, the following information was learned from the minutes of the eighth annual convention held at the Friends Meeting House in Jefferson County on August 12 and 13, 1822.
Delegates present were --Greene Branch-- John Marshall, Samuel McNees and David Stanfield.
Historic Greene County, Tennessee and its People: 1783-1992, pub 1992 by Greene County History Book Committee and Don Mills, Inc. (Don Mills, Inc. PO Box 34, Waynesville, NC 28786) Printed in USA by Walsworth Publishing. LC #93-60909.
#380 Ž: New Hope or Quaker Knob
Quakers came to the area that now is known as Quaker Knobs in the 1790s. A preparative meeting was settled (at Nolichucky) on the fourth day the 12th of the 8th month, 1793, and the name of New Hope given to it shortly after. The original New Hope log church, believed to have been built in 1793, was erected on a 100 acre of land which had been granted to Samuel Frazier for the sum of 50 shillings (about $12.50).
New Hope Monthly Meeting was established in Greene County, Tennessee, 28th of 2nd month, 1795 by direction of New Garden Quarterly Meeting and Westfield Monthly Meeting. The log structure was replaced by a two-room brick structure after land was deeded by Samuel Frazier in 1795 "for the consideration of 3 pounds, 2 shillings Virginia money, for the purpose of building a meeting house and for burying ground for the whole and sole use of said New Hope Meeting --3 acres, 16 poles." This deed is recorded in Deed Book 14, p. 10. According to Goodspeed's History of Greene County, the first religious service was observed on "the 11th day of the 9th months 1795". The building served the congregation until the big snow of 1886 (began Dec. 4th, almost 4 feet deep) which caved in the roof. The building was never restored (the scar of its location is visible today) and the meetings were held in the adjacent school house.
In 1867, John Hoover, an elder in a Quaker Church in Iowa came to Quaker Knob and there started a school. Then John H. Minthon from Iowa and an uncle of Herbert Hoover came and he and his wife were teaching there in 1879.
Regular meetings were discontinued sometime after 1896 due to the fact that many of the "Friends" had moved away.
In October 1928, President Hoover sent a $25,000 check for repair of the building.
The old Quaker meeting house and surrounding graveyard were restored in 1974 by the joint effort of the Greene County Heritage Trust and Chucky Ruritan Club.
Sources: 1. Newhope Meeting House, Greene County, Tennessee by William Wade Hinshaw; 2. Quaker Knob, or New Hope Meeting House compiled by ????; 3. Olden Times in Greene County Volume 2 by Harry B. Roberts p.79 paragraph 3; 4. Hopewell Friends History 1734-1934 Frederick County, VA, Genealogical Pub. Co. Baltimore 1975. Submitted by Carroll Rhea, Route2, Box 1105, Chuckey, Tenn. 37641.
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