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The Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, 1750-1930
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The Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol. I, Deep Creek Monthly Meeting, Page 971
DEEP CREEK MONTHLY MEETING
Surry (now Yadkin) County, North Carolina
The establishment of Deep Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends, Surry, (now Yadkin) County, North Carolina, was authorized by the following minute. The first sitting was held the sixth of fourth month, 1793. William Hough was appointed the first clerk; Simon Hadley, recorder of births, deaths and marriages; Daniel Huff, treasurer.
"We of the Committee appointed to visit the preparative meeting of Deep Creek on their request to hold a monthly meeting among themselves, after visiting them, Report that we think it will be best to grant their request; with the Quarterly Meeting appointing a committee to attend the sittings thereof for their help and instruction as long as the Quarterly Meeting shall think necessary, all which we submit to the Quarterly Meeting: - Jacob Hunt, Joseph Hoggatt, Moses Gregg, Bowater Sumner, Enoch Macy. Which this Quarterly Meeting concurs with; and directs that they hold said meeting on the first Seventh day in each month, and their preparative meeting on the fifth of the same week and appoints John Talbot, Jacob Hunt, Tristim Barnard, James Thornbrugh, Allen Unthank and Abijah Coffin, to attend the first opening thereof, and Barnedas Coffin, Hezekiah Starbuck, John Sanders and Seth Coffin, to attend the other meetings in the Quarter for at least two of them at each, who are to report their care and satisfaction to next meeting. From a Quarterly Meeting held at Deep River by adjournment the 13th of the 3rd mo. 1793. Jesse Williams, Clerk."
Previous to the setting up of a monthly meeting at Deep Creek, the preparative meeting had been under the jurisdiction of Deep River Monthly Meeting. The following list contains the names of some of those who composed the original membership of Deep Creek Monthly Meeting.
George Adams
Susana Adams
William Adams
Francis Barnard, Sr.
Jane Barnet
Daniel Bills
Deborah Bills
Anna Bond
Charlotte Bond
John Bond
Garner Brian
Ann Brown
Jacob Brown
Jane Brown
Mary Brown
William Brown
James Burnside
Mary Burnsides
Adam Coffin
Hannah Davis
Joseph Davis
Ann Dobbins
Jacob Dobbins
Nathan Farmer
Bridget Hadley
Eulis Hadley
Simon Hadly
Ruth Hinshaw
Rebecca Hobson
Stephen Hobson
Israel Hough
Mary Hough
William Hough or Huff
Judith Hutchens
Nicholas Hutchens
Sarah Hutchens
Strangeman Hutchens
Susanna Hutchens
Thomas Hutchens
Jemima Johnson
John Johnson
Daniel Jones
Joseph Keys, Jr
Lydia Keys
Jos. Noblet
Samuel Pearson
Ann Philips
Sarah Reece
Catherine Russel
Charles Russell
Sarah Shugart
Zachariah Shugart
John Stanfield
Archelus Stanley
Ann Stockton
Thomas Vestal
Samuel Welch
Keziah Worth
Jemima Zacry
William Zachery
Preparative meetings under Deep Creek Monthly Meeting included Deep Creek, Hunting Creek, Swan Creek and Forbush Creek.
The following abstract of the records of the meeting has been complied from one volume of birth, death and marriage records, two volumes of men’s minutes (1793-1853), and one volume of women’s minutes (1793-1875). The men’s minutes, covering the period subsequent to 1853, have been lost.
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