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Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, 1750-1930
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The Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol I, Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, Page 343
CANE CREEK MONTHLY MEETING
Orange (now Alamance) County, North Carolina
Cane Creek Monthly Meeting was established 7th of 10th month, 1751, being located on the steams from which it took its name, in the central part of the large area which comprised Orange County. This area included all the present counties of Caswell, Person, Alamance, Chatham and Orange and parts of Rockingham, Guilford, Randolph, Lee, Wake and Durham. In 1777, Chatham, Guilford and Wake Counties were established - each taking a part of Orange County. The division line between Orange and Chatham was run a short distance to the south of the meeting house, so the meeting continued to be in Orange County, but the residences of many of the members were thrown into Chatham. This accounts for the fact that in a large number of families the older children were recorded as having been born in Orange County and the younger ones in Chatham County. In 1849 Orange County was again divided, the western portion, including the site of Cane Creek Meeting, being set off as Alamance County. The meeting house is today located in that County, adjacent to the village of Snow Camp, and about 15 miles south of Graham, the county seat.
The meeting was set up under authorization of Perquimans and Little River Quarterly Meeting as set forth in the following minutes, dated 1751, 6, 31: "Friends on Cane Creek wrote to our Quarterly Meeting Desiring a Monthly Meeting to be settled amongst them, which was referred to this meeting & several Friends of them parts appeared at this meeting and acquainted Friends that there is Thirty families and upwards of Friends settled in them parts & Desire still in behalf of themselves and their Families to have a Monthly Meeting settled amongst them, which request upon mature consideration Friends think proper to grant & leave to themselves to settle it in the most convenient place amongst the Body."
It is not possible to present a complete list of the thirty or more families of Friends who are referred to in the above minute. That the original membership was scattered over a large territory is shown by a minute in the proceeding of the first sitting, 1751, 10, 7, which states that "Friends of New Garden belonging to this monthly meeting, request the privilege of holding a meeting for worship on first days at that place." The distance from Cane Creek to New Garden was upward of thirty miles. The Cane Creek birth records show that one or more children were born, in Orange County, North Carolina, prior to 10th month, 1751, in each of the following families:
William and Hannah Brown
Anthony and Sarah Chamness
John and Abigail Pike
William and Sarah Piggott
Hugh and Mary Laughlin
John and Rachel Wright
At the opening session of the meeting, certificates were produced by
John Powell
Martha Hiatt and children
John Hiatt
Joseph Doan
Robert Summers, wife and children
Simon Dixon
Aaron Jones
Henry Ballenger, wife and children
William Reynolds, wife and children
Elizabeth Vestal and sons, William and Thomas
Other persons who are mentioned in the minutes during the first eighteen months include the following, some of whom were probably among the thirty families:
Ann Armfield
William Baldwin
Mary Ballenger
Rachel Ballenger
Bowater Beals
Sarah Beals
Thomas Beals
Benjamin Beeson
William Beeson
Rebekah Branson
Thomas Branson
Juliatha Carr
Thomas Carr
Sarah Chapman
Benjamin Clark
Catherine Cox
William Cox
Charles Davies
Hannah Davies
Daniel Dillon
Peter Dillon
John Doan
Elinor Edwards
Jonathan Harrold
Richard Henderson
Martha Hiatt
Sarah Hiatt
William Hiatt
Sarah Hodgin
John Hodson
Sarah Hodson
John Hoggatt
William Hoggatt
Rachel Howard
Mary Hudson
Eleazar Hunt
Thomas Hunt
William Hunt
Elizabeth Jackson
Isaac Jackson
John Jones
Able Knight
Elizabeth Laky
William Marshill
Edward Matthews
Mary Matthews
William Matthews
Henry Maynor
Mordecai Mendenhall
Hur Mills
John Mills
Thomas Mills
Benjamin Moorman
Matthew Ozbun
Jeremiah Piggott
David Reynolds
Benjamin Ruddock
Joseph Ruddock
Richard Sidwell
Phebe Summers
Frances Taylor
James Taylor
Robert Taylor
Martha Thornton
Thomas Thornton
Thomas Thornburgh
William Thornburgh
Joseph Wells
Thomas Wilkisson
Johnathan Williams
John Hiatt and Sarah Hodson were married 1752, 4, 22. The list of witnesses includes
George Hiatt
George Hodson
Henry Ballinger
Thomas Hunt
Eleazer Hunt
Thomas Beales
Martha Hiatt
Mary Hodson
Hannah Ballinger
Abigail Pike
Sarah Beals
Ann Hunt
Eleazer Hunt and Catherine Cox were married 1752, 12, 4. Among the witnesses were
Thomas Hunt
Zebulon Gaunt
John Wright
Charles Davis
Henry Mayner
William Piggott
Mary Jackson
Mary Matthews
Hannah Davis
Mary Wright
Rachel Mayner
The birth and death records of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting are in two volumes, designated as II and III. In each volume the pages devoted to birth records and those devoted to death records are numbered separately. In the following abstract, page numbers without volume indication refer to the birth records in volume II. Page numbers followed by the designations D, 2 and 2D refer to death records in volume II, birth records in volume III, and death records in volume III, respectively. The abstract of the minutes and marriage records has been compiled from the men’s minutes 1751-1899 (four volumes), women’s minutes, 1751-1883 (three volumes), and the register of marriage certificates.
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