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Stanfield Quaker Notes

The Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, 1750-1930

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Part 1:  Abbreviations and Definitions of Quaker Terms

Part 4: Deep Creek Monthly Meeting

 

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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