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Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, 1750-1930
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Part 1: Abbreviations of Quaker Terms
The Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol I, Deep River Monthly Meeting, Page 773
DEEP RIVER MONTHLY MEETING
Guilford County, North Carolina
The minute of Western Quarterly Meeting 1778, 8, 8, authorizing the establishment of Deep River Monthly Meeting, is as follows: "The Friends appointed last meeting to inspect the capacity of friends at Deep River respecting their request of holding a monthly meeting amongst themselves report as follows: - We the committee appointed at last meeting to take under sollid consideration the request of friends of Deep River respecting their holding monthly meetings agree to report: - we had an opportunity with them, as also a number of our women friends who united with us, and after a time of waiting and sollidly confering thereon, Give it as our best sence & judgement that the granting of their request will be consistant with best wisdom. All which we submit to the meeting; with which judgement this meeting unites and establishes accordingly and orders the said meeting to be on the first second day of the week in each month. And directs the Clerk to transmit a copy of the above minute to the aforesaid meeting & report his care to next meeting."
The first setting of the new meeting was held 1778, 9, 7. John Talbot and Mary Talbot were appointed first clerks and John Rudduck, Jr., recorder of births, deaths and marriages.
The preparative meeting at Deep River Monthly Meeting had been under the jurisdiction of New Garden Monthly Meeting previous to the setting up of Deep River Monthly Meeting. The original membership of the new monthly meeting included
Jemima Baldwin
John Baldwin
Catharine Barnard
Francis Barnard
Margaret Barnard
Tristram Barnard
Levinah Beard
Phebe Beeson
Ann Bond
Edward Bond
Sarah Brazelton
Sarah Brooks
Ann Clasby
Charles Clasby
Barnabas Coffin
Hannah Coffin
Libni Coffin
Lydia Coffin
Mary Coffin
Samuel Coffin
Seth Coffin
Mary Cook
Thomas Cook
Sarah Crues
Thomas Elmore
Latham Folger
Matilda Folger
Jonathan Gifford
Unice Gifford
Philip Ham
Priscilla Ham
Obadiah Harris
Rebekah Harris
Jonathan Harrold
Mary Haworth
Micajah Haworth
Phebe Haworth
Phebe Healy
John Hiatt, Sr.
Mary Hiatt
Ruth Hinshaw
John Hoggatt
Joseph Hoggatt
Phebe Hoggatt
Ruth Hoggatt
Elizabeth Howell
Jonathan Howell
Ann Huff
Abner Hunt
Judith Macy
John Macy, Sr.
Matthew Macy
Phebe Marshall
Charity Mendenhall
Dinah Mendenhall
Jane Mendenhall
John Mendenhall
Mary Mendenhall
Moses Mendenhall
Stephen Mendenhall
Aaron Mills
Amos Mills
Henry Mills
Reuben Mills
Joseph Pattison
Elizabeth Pike
Nathan Pike
Jane Rudduck
John Rudduck, Jr.
Sarah Rudduck
Hezekiah Sanders
Joel Sanders
John Sanders
John Sanders, Jr.
Martha Sanders
Susanna Sanders
George Stalker
Sarah Stalker
Archelaus Stanly
Jehu Stuart
Sarah Stuart
John Sweet
John Talbot
Mary Talbot
Henry Thornbrugh
Joseph Thornbrugh
Rachel Thornbrugh
John Unthank
Manlove Wheeler
Isaac Williams
Deep River Meeting is located in the western part of Guilford County, about 12 miles from Greensboro. A midweek meeting was set up in 1753, and a preparative meeting established in 1758. Located in the same section and having its beginning only two years later, the history of Deep River is similar to that of New Garden. Both meeting enjoyed large growth through immigration from the North during the latter half of the eighteenth century, and both suffered great losses by migration to the Northwest during the first half of the nineteenth century. Writing of the latter movement, Dr. Weeks in "Southern Quakers and Slavery," page 264, says: "Deep River is, and has been, one of the strongest monthly meetings. Its record of migration begins with 1811 and extends to 1860. As usual, they are all to Indiana except ten, which are divided between Tennessee, Ohio and Illinois. Between 1811 and 1845 the movement was quite uniform. The favorite objective point was the White Water Meeting, Ind. Deep River, like New Garden, has had sufficient vitality to withstand this constant drain on its strength."
Preparative meetings under Deep River Monthly Meeting included Deep River, Springfield, Muddy Creek, Deep Creek, Belews Creek, Gum Swamp and Hitchcock.
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