Stanfield Quaker Notes

The Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, 1750-1930

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Part 1:  Abbreviations and Definitions of Quaker Terms

Part 8: Newhope Monthly Meeting

The Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 1, New Hope Monthly Meeting, Page 1077

NEWHOPE MONTHLY MEETING

Greene County, Tennessee

Newhope Monthly Meeting was established in Greene County, Tennessee, 28^th of 2^nd month, 1795, by direction of New Garden Quarterly Meeting and Westfield Monthly Meeting. Samuel Ellis was appointed to serve as clerk, Samuel Frazier as recorder, Benjamin Iddings, Ellis Ellis, Elihu Swain and Joseph Thornburgh as overseers, and Daniel Bonine and George Haworth as overseer of the poor.

Settlement by Friends in Greene County began as early as 1784. The meeting was first called Nolichucky from the name of the stream on which the settlement was located. In 1789 a committee appointed by New Garden Monthly Meeting to visit "the little meeting at Nolachuckey" reported the appointment complied with to a degree of satisfaction. Certificates were ordered to be prepared for Thomas Embree and family, John Rambo, and Samuel Frazier and children, all residing at Nolichucky, transferring their rights of membership to Westfield Monthly Meeting. Westfield had been established in 1786 and it was thought to be more convenient for Tennessee Friends to have their membership there than at New Garden.

"A preparative meeting was settled [at Nolichucky] on the fourth day the 12^th of the 8^th month, 1793, and the name of Newhope given to it shortly after."

Other Friends who were members at Newhope before the establishment of the monthly meeting, or who became members soon afterward, include:

Moorman Ballard

James Barrett

John Bowater Beals

Jacob Beals

Daniel Bonine

Jacob Clearwater

Aaron Coppock

Ruth Davidson

Peter Dillon

Ellis Ellis

Mordecai Ellis

Samuel Ellis

Susannah Edmundson

James Fisher

Ezekiel Frazier

George Haworth

James Haworth

Moses Hoggatt

Benjamin Iddings

Evan Jones

Abram Marshall

William Neal

Benjamin Pickering

William Rees

Abraham Smith

Seth Smith

Jesse Willis

James Wright

Names of Friends living at Lost Creek Monthly Meeting, are noted in the introduction of the records of the latter meeting.

Meeting for worship under the jurisdiction of Newhope Monthly Meeting were established at Limestone (later a preparative meeting) Lick Creek, Shilo and Westland.

Migration to Ohio began in 1804 with 16 certificates to Miami Monthly Meeting. Twelve more were issued to the same meeting in 1805, and five in 1806. During the next nine years about 15 certificates were directed to various meeting in Ohio and Indiana. Then came a period of 11 years, from 1816 to 1826, with no certificates to the Northern States, followed by a similar period, 1827 to 1837, of renewed activity. During this latter period about seven certificates were issued to Vermilion Monthly Meeting, Illinois, eleven to Duck Creek Monthly Meeting, Indiana, and four to other meeting in Ohio and Indiana.

Newhope Monthly Meeting was attached to New Garden Quarterly Meeting until 1803, to Newhope and Lost Creek Quarterly Meeting (later called Lost Creek Quarterly Meeting) until 1888, to New Garden Quarterly Meeting from 1888 to 1892, when it was transferred to Friendsville Quarterly Meeting. In 1897 Friendsville Quarterly Meeting, then embracing all the meetings in Tennessee, was transferred from North Carolina Yearly Meeting to Wilmington Yearly Meeting in Ohio. Newhope Monthly Meeting was laid down about the same time.

The existing records of Newhope Monthly Meeting, consisting of one volume of birth, death and marriage records, and one volume of men’s minutes (1795-1846), have been deposited at the Yearly Meeting House, Richmond, Indiana. The men’s minutes subsequent to 1846 and all the women’s minutes have been lost.