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Part 10: Westfield Monthly Meeting

The Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol I, Westfield Monthly Meeting, Page 953

WESTFIELD MONTHLY MEETING

Surry County, North Carolina

"A copy of a minute of the Quarterly Meeting held at Can Creek 1786, 11, 13. The committee appointed last meeting to visit the Preparative Meeting of Tom’s Creek report as follows: - We of the committee appointed to visit the Preparative Meeting of Tom’s Creek, and inspect with their capability of holding a monthly meeting to the honor of truth, have complyed with the appointment, and do give it as our sense and judgement that their request may be granted which we submit to the Quarterly Meeting;

John Talbot

John Hocket

Obediah Harris

Thomas Winslow

William Tomlinson

William Hill;

which judgement this meeting confirms and directs that the said meeting be held on Seventh Day preceeding the last seventh day in each month, also that it be known in the future by the name of Westfield. Extracted from the minutes of said Quarterly Meeting by Jesse Williams, Clerk."

Agreeable to the foregoing direction, friends meet the 23 day of ye 12 month, 1786. The representatives from the preparative meeting were David Ballard and Thomas Jessop. Boater Sumner was appointed clerk; Samuel Bond, recorder.

Tom’s Creek Meeting, the predecessor of Westfield, was located in Surry County, N.C., not far from the Virginia line. The meeting for worship was organized about 1771; the preparative meeting in 1784. As noted above, the name was changed to Westfield when the monthly meeting was established in 1786. Previous to this time, Tom’s Creek Preparative Meeting had been attached to New Garden Monthly Meeting. In addition to Surry and adjoining counties in North Carolina, the verge of Westfield Monthly Meeting included adjacent territory in Virginia and settlements in Greene and Jefferson Counties, in Tennessee.

The following list of names, taken from the early minutes, represents a part of the original membership of Westfield Monthly Meeting. No complete list is available.

Byrom Ballard

David Ballard

Garman Ballard

Moorman Ballard

Thomas Ballard

John Bowater Beales

William Beals

Amasa Beeson

Samuel Bond

Gardner Briant

John Briant

John Burris, Sr.

John Burris, Jr.

Benjamin Carr

John Carson

Thomas Davis

Thomas Davis, Jr.

Samuel Frazier

Moses Grigg

Joseph Hart

John Hiatt

Joseph Hiatt

Joseph Hiatt, Jr.

William Hiatt

Curtis Jackson

Jacob Jackson

John Jackson

Joseph Jackson

Hannah Jessop

Joseph Jessop

Thomas Jessop

Timothy Jessop

William Jessop

Isaac Jones

James Mackiney

Richard Pinson

Thomas Puckett

David Reece

William Rudduck

Royal Simmons

Bowater Sumner

Caleb Sumner

Thomas Sumner

William White

Westfield Monthly Meeting and Westfield Quarterly Meeting were laid down about 1832, most of the members having removed to the West. Those that had not removed were attached to Deep Creek Monthly Meeting, and it joined to Deep River Quarterly Meeting.

The following abstract has been complied from one volume of birth, death and marriage records and one volume of men’s minutes, 1786-1828. The women’s minutes have been lost.

Colonial Virginia Source Records, 1600s-1700s

Marriages of Virginia Residents, Vol II, Part III, Surnames R-S, Page 232

Abraham m. 26 oct., 1789, Mary Farley. Halifax Co, Mar. Rec.

Anne m. John Vaughn

Dolley m. James Warren

Elizabeth m. Alexander Posey

Francis m. Bird Moore

Frances m. George Wiley

M. m. Jeffery Warren

Marmaduke m. 28 Jul, 1788, Rachel Pride. Halifax Co. Mar. Rec.

Mary m. Lea Harrelson

Millian m. James Hardaway

Robert m. 28 Apr, 1788, Milley Coates. Halifax Co. Mar. Rec.

Sally m. Martin Turner

Thomas m. Mary Brockenbrough, dau. Of Col. William and Mary (Newman) Boddie-HSF IV:46

Thomas m. Nov., 1799, Polly Waddell. Halifax Co. Mar. Rec.

William m. 20 Dec., 1791, Sarah Farler. Halifax Co. Mar. Rec.

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William Wade Hinshaw

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