Stanfield Quaker Notes

Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, 1750-1930

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Part 5: Deep River Monthly Meeting

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.