Clerk Superior Court has probate and court records. The earliest existing meeting records, which date from 1680, are from Perquimans Monthly Meeting. A poem White wrote in 1698 as a teaching tool for his students came to light at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. John Archdale followed Culpeper as Governor from 1694-1696. He married say 1753, Elizabeth _______. had wept for joy at the coming of Edmundson, not having seen a Quaker for seven years. The peremptory way in which Friends have disowned its members make us almost wonder that any at all are left. Abundance of water also aided the farmers with their crops and for their homes. Dating to 1668, it was an important colonial settlement and the site of North Carolina's first organized religious service, a Quaker meeting. How Perquimans County, NC access to abortion clinics compares to the rest of the country. Quakers followed the English practice, with one exception. Buy a cheap copy of Perquimans County book by Perquimans County Restoration Association. Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love. Before receiving this retention bonus . The Lord Proprietors next named Samuel Stephens as Governor of Albemarle. Home Encyclopedia Entry Perquimans County (1668). Many users of Quaker records find that the way in which Quakers dated letters, minutes and other documents, particularly before 1752, poses problems. To be sure in later years (from 1750- ) the Presbyterians were much more potent in this struggle, but the Quakers held the fort until that time. George and Edmundson Fox traveled to Carolinas during the 1670s and they established several churches in the state. QUAKER COMMUNITIES IN ALBEMARLE by Anne L. McCarthy. Young men were being conscripted into the militia to fight Indians on the western borders of Virginia and North Carolina and brought home with them news of the beautiful, undeveloped lands in the western parts of those states. Identifier. Perquimans County continued to be the radiating center for Quakerism for the first century of the State's history; that is, until the great migratory wave of Quakers from Nantucket, New England, Pennsylvania, and other points north had swept into our borders and organized themselves and asserted their powers. White served as Registrar for Little River Meeting and for the Pasquotank Monthly Meeting which included four other meetings besides Little River. Thank you! The rebels, led by John Culpeper, arrested Gov. Complete the fields below to post a public comment about the material featured on this page. Quakerism in Perquimans has long been on the wane. Four years later Edmundson returns to Carolina and says, Friends were finely settled and I left things well among them. All of this occurred in what is now Perquimans County; and from that day to this (1672-1908), a term of two hundred and thirty-six years, Friends have been prominent citizens of that county. of today; notable among them is the privilege of affirmation by any individual and in any court of justice, rather than the taking of the legal oath. Saunders most likely built the one-and-one-half-story brick dwelling that later came to be known as the Newbold-White House. Joseph Blount Cheshire in the North Carolina Booklet of April, 1906, page 261: Quakerism was the only organized form of religion in the colony, with no rival worship among the people for the rest of the seventeenth century (1672). Citation format: Creator. This traveling Friend after much hardship reached a place probably not far distant from where the town of Hertford now stands, and in a three days stay held two religious services. Date Accessed. While Quakerism in Perquimans has much to be proud of in its past history and can pride itself in the worthy citizens which it has produced, we believe none in the past can surpass some of the standard-bearers of the present day, and though the outlook in that county might be more hopeful, the outlook for Quakerism in the State was never more encouraging; and we know that much of the brain and sinew of the Perquimans Quakers are only transferred and are now working in other and more aggressive portions of our State, looking steadily to the future, but never unmindful of the past. Friends Historical Collection, Guilford College. They refused to take an oath of any kind, as they owed their allegiance only to God. The source of these rivers was the Great Dismal Swamp, where the color of the water was a deep red, caused by the waters passing through the roots of the cypress trees. Quaker Records - Perquimans County, NCGenWeb Category: Quaker Records QUAKER CALENDAR CHANGES QUAKER CALENDAR CHANGES Up to and including 1751 the Julian calendar was used in England, Wales, Ireland and the British colonies overseas. Winfall, Chapanoke, Belvidere, Durants Neck, and Snug Harbor are the other communities and townships within the region. The key factor, however, in the diaspora of southern Quakers was their witness against slavery, which began in the late eighteenth century and intensified in the nineteenth century. The Quaker dissenters in England had been prohibited from attending the public schools there, leading the Friends to establish their own schools to provide their young people with the education and religious precepts of their faith. The Perquimans records show time and again that its members were under surveillance if they were not prompt and exact in the payment of their debts. I mention the last for it is not a matter of conjecture, but a matter of history that the present Speaker of the House, Joseph G. Cannon, is not only of Quaker extraction through his mother, but also on his father's side; and that were the Cannons of Guilford County traced back a few generations, Perquimans might come in for a share of the honor, if such there be, attaching to our countryman. 1.2 Quakers in North Carolina 2 Quaker Meetings 2.1 Core Sound (Carteret County) 2.2 Carver's Creek 2.3 Dunn's Creek 2.4 Cane Creek 2.5 New Garden 3 Sources 4 Additional resources Background Settlement of North Carolina North Carolina was one of the original Thirteen Colonies. Following the Cary Rebellion of 1711, Friends were effectively excluded from colonial politics and thereafter seldom held office in the state until modern times. QUAKER CALENDAR. It must not be overlooked, however, that it was just this matter of taking an oath which first put the Quakers out of politics and which eventually made it a disownable offense for any members of the Friends Church to hold office under the government. . As to what part of the population the Quakers were, there is no means of determining; but this fact is assured, that prior to 1700 the Quakers had things much their own way in church and state and that this golden age of North Carolina Quakerism culminated in the appointment of a Quaker governor, John Archdale, who, though giving his time and energy to South Carolina, left an impress and gained much prestige and recognition for his co-religionists in North Carolina. At the present time there are two hundred and ninety-six Friends in Perquimans and Chowan Counties (the latter has only about thirty-five). 7 Issue 4, April 1908 , p 278-289 Edenton became the seat of government in 1716, and the Quakers lost most of their sway in Perquimanss politics. In 1778, the British launched the Southern Campaign in an attempt to gather support from the supposed Loyalist population in the Southern states. Pricklove had moved from Nansemond County in Virginia with his wife, Rachel Lawrence, whose brother, Thomas Lawrence, was one of Nathaniel Bacons supporters in Bacons Rebellion. This may have been the incentive for families like the Whites and the Hills to spend a short period at Queens Creek in York county, later returning to the counties south of the James River. nineteenth century, while by no means an exclusively Quaker organization, had as its founders men of Quaker faith and such have always been its ardent supporters, working shoulder to shoulder with the Baptists. [18] Little did Greene know that he would later call upon Friends for help in a time of great need. Levi Coffin, from Coffin, Levi. [3] [4]Quakers settled in the area before his arrival, whose informal meetings began on fallen trees in one of the many clearings. [10] Quaker Graveyard at Little River - Perquimans County, North Carolina. John Culpeper, who had come to Pasquotank in 1675 from the Charlestown settlement where he had been accused of inciting the people against their government, was one of these. Test: Wm. Though the Quakers have long since moved away and the Meeting House sold and disappeared, the cemetery has been preserved as part of the early history of the state since the very first religious services in colonial North Carolina were Friends Meetings. By 1701, there were only six warriors within Perquimans because most had moved to a reservation in present-day Camden County. As Quakers they did not take active roles in the insurrection, but they were closely associated with the officials who did. Veronica Rountree, whose brother wrote a book about Quaker history in the region, poses for a portrait in the new Perquimans County History Museum, which held its grand opening on Saturday, Feb. 19. He left Pasquotank in 1676 to become Nathaniel Bacons lieutenant during the rebellion in Virginia. Then there was a series of years (1787-1812) in which the yearly meeting alternated between Perquimans and Guilford Counties, with four exceptions when Pasquotank claimed the honor. Bacons Rebellion in Virginia had reverberations in Albemarle. Brother goeth to war with brother and that before the unbeliever, had a very vivid meaning to the Quaker fathers. Laced with small streams, creeks, and deep rivers, the easy access by water into the untamed region offered ports for ocean-going ships able to take the settlers products directly to Caribbean ports and to the other colonies. For nearly three-quarters of a century (till 1757) this was the condition of the church. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. All rights reserved. They believed in simplicity which strips away the accretions of the centuries and used the term Thee because Jesus used Thee to His Friends. During the 17th century, Quakers were known for their simple customs and dress, as well as their strict adherence to morals in order to remain pure and receptive to the inner light of God. Marrying out, that is, marrying some one not in membership with the Friends, was a disownable offense; and it was thus that the Quakers lost many members. Levi Coffin of Guilford County was a founder of the Underground Railroad, which enabled thousands of slaves to escape to freedom. 1 (1936). Where they are single-dated, the writer is usually but not always anticipating the year to begin on 25 March, so 8 1 mo. Among the many Quaker government officials and Assembly representatives was John Archdale, who was not only a Proprietor but was also governor of Carolina (169496). These families came to be linked by intermarriage many times over. They sometimes used Roman numerals (i-xii) for these, and sometimes Arabic (1-12). In the six months leading up to the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, the American and British forces met at the battles of Cowpens and Kings Mountain in northern South Carolina. North Carolina State Archives (Raleigh), for Albemarle Book of Warrants and Surveys (1681-1706), Albemarle County Papers (1678-1714), Perquimans Births, Marriages, Deaths and Flesh Marks (1659-1739), Perquimans Precinct Court Minutes (1688-93). The Quaker protest against slavery and war, when he found he could not remove the one from our midst much as he succeeded in getting it out of his church, and when he would not take part in the otherthe Quaker's protest, I say, was a very quiet one, that of leaving the State; and the Quakers of Perquimans were among those who so largely settled the free States of Ohio and Indiana. The early Quaker communities were models of life based on their Christian beliefs. The women, treated as equals, had their own meetings and committees to deal with their own particular concerns. But it was not disownment any more than migration which brought about the present condition. Families were more isolated and vied with the Indians for sustenance off the land. But once the year began in January, this was no longer the case, and so from 1752 all months were referred to by Quakers by their number. Despite all this, in the formative days of the civil and ecclesiastical history of the Old North State, the Quaker was a very influential individual; and shall we not claim that this wide influence of what Weeks calls the flower of Puritanism, was the great influence which preserved our State from any dark pages of history, pages which mar the annals of Virginia and Massachusetts, and place us along with Pennsylvania in matters of justice to the Indian and opposition to war? We support the research and teaching mission of East Carolina University That the Quakers were for a long time the only organized body of Dissenters must necessitate crediting them with trying to stem in its beginning the current which was about to sweep from us religious tolerance and individual liberty. The problem for the modern reader is remembering that the year did not begin on 1 January until 1752, so that until 1752 February was Twelfth Month and March First Month for Quakers. George Durant and Zachary Gillam were arrested, but John Culpeper organized a group of citizens and freed both of the men. 1730, the historical significance of the site itself goes back much further, into the earliest days of the settlement of Colonial North Carolina. Friends are on record as protesting the unrest generated by Culpepers Rebellion, and in 1680 nine Friends were imprisoned for refusing militia service. [20] The Religious Society of Friends - North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends. John Collins, http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/12364. Henry PHILLIPS is claimed to have been the first Quaker to set foot in Perquimans Precinct, having come from New England in 1665. Filled with the perils of virgin forests, native Indians, wild animals, insects, snakes, and reptiles, this area south of the Great Dismal Swamp was also more isolated from the English authorities. Their records show many points of interest and much which seems to us like an infringement of personal liberty and that the church was overstepping its bounds. The church would not grant its permission to a marriage request sometimes, and such a thing as a man's not having paid his debts would hinder no less than grosser evils if such were detected. When unrest in Albemarle broke out in Culpepers Rebellion, in 1677, Thomas Miller, an apothecary from Pasquotank, was serving as Deputy Governor in place of Thomas Eastchurch. When Edmundson returned to the colony in 1676, he reported that Friends were finely settled. Tradition has it that the earliest meeting for worship was established in present Perquimans County at the home of Francis Toms, which was also the site of the first meeting in 1698 of North Carolina Yearly Meeting, the oldest extant religious organization in the state. No doubt his coming had much to do in fostering and establishing the church, especially by instigating his letters of advice written after his return to England. ?>, Sign up for updates from the North Carolina History Project. The oldest record preserved by the Quakers of North Caroline is a marriage certificate of Christopher Nicholson and Ann Attwood, both of Perquimans, and dating 1682, which it will be noted, is just ten years after the visits of Edmundson and Fox. Founded in England through the prophetic insights and evangelical ministry of George Fox, the sect expanded rapidly after the mid-seventeenth century. They objected to using those names of days (Sunday to Saturday) and months (January to August) which derived from heathen gods or goddesses, employing instead numbers: thus Sunday was for them First Day. North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Friends United Meeting) has grown to become one of the largest yearly meetings in the country. x232 When a law was passed requiring officeholders to take an oath to serve the English crown, the Quakers, who believed oaths should be made only to God, met opposition and were prohibited from holding public office. Albemarle was becoming quite populated. Another point in which the Quakers figure largely in the early law annals of our State and in which the Quakers of Perquimans must have been prime movers, as it occurred in the years when they were the leaders of Quakerism in the State, is in regard to taking up arms. The oldest recorded property deed in North Carolina is in the Perquimans Deed Registry. 162 Perquimans County, north carolina locations. After 1752, all months were referred to by Quakers by their number. MY QUAKER HERITAGE. [March] 1708/9. Greensboro, The Quakers exhibited their influence throughout Perquimans until the end of the Cary Rebellion in the early 1700s. Berkeley, acting on orders of the Lord Proprietors. Living on lands bought from the Indians meant they were living among the natives. In 1663, George Catchmade, a member of the House of Burgesses, received a grant from Lord Proprietor William Berkeley. THE FAMILY BIBLE OF PERQUIMANS CO. As prepared from County records, Berkeley Parish Register, Quaker records, both in North Carolina, and Virginia, County records, and other records of other Counties in North Carolina, Marriage bonds in Perquimans, and Chowan, also some in Pasquotank and Gates Co, where they were pertinent to Perquimans. Beals came from Virginia to the Cane Creek settlement before continuing the 30 miles west to New Garden. QUAINT DOINGS OF EARLY QUAKERS by Fred A. Olds. THE ENGLISH YEAR before and after 31 December 1751. All homes, barns, and other structures in the community of Guilford Courthouse and the surrounding area were used as makeshift hospitals for the hundreds of wounded soldiers. By the end of the century there were two monthly meetings in Perquimans and another in Pasquotank. A fullaccount of this beginning is given by Dr. S'.epr.en B. Williams died from the disease, but Hunt survived the illness. Many computer programs require the use of modern dating; in this case, researchers should use the old date, but note them as o.s. (old style) so that the reader knows that it has not been converted. William Wade Hinshaw, comp., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, vol. Some of Albemarles residents had been active in the Virginia revolt, and they returned to Albemarle to continue stirring up discontent there. Creek in Pasquotank Precinct1 to organize community affairs. Thus the year 1751 began on 25 March 1751 and ended on 31 December 1751, which was immediately followed by 1 January 1752. However, after the rebellion Perquimans County began losing its prominence in colonial politics. Quakers, or the Religious Society of Friends, are the oldest organized Christian church in North Carolina. These all belong to Piney Woods Monthly Meeting, which is composed of Piney Woods and Up River meetings for worship. Friends General Conference - Quakers in North Carolina. Hertford, the seat of government in Perquimans, was established in 1758. Basil Sanders, who left 860 acres of land in Chowan County to a William Hill of Antigua in 1721, was likely the son of one of the above Sanders couples. In 1772, the colonists rising antagonism towards the Navigation Acts turned to action. Indeed, it has always been a care of the Quakers to keep their outward affairs in proper condition, and in the early days of the Perquimans records, where boundary lines were not marked with sufficient definiteness, one of the principal matters of church record is the settlement by the church of such differences as may arise in regard to land tenure. Quakers, or the Religious Society of Friends, are the oldest organized Christian church in North Carolina. [26] [27] The battle covered such a large area, over 1,000 acres, that some of the wounded were not found until a few days after the battle. [17] In 1773, Greene began attending military gathering[s] and shortly after, in mid-1773, the Society of Friends disowned him. The Quakers opposed such activities as the declaration of American Independence, which led to the Revolutionary War (1775-1781), because they believed that governments were divinely instituted and that they should only rebel should the government disobey the laws of God.[8] In 1695, a Quaker named John Archdale had been governor of North Carolina. It had a diuretic effect on those who drank it, and prevented agues and fevers, or so it was claimed. New converts, with little appreciation for traditional Quaker beliefs, readily accepted the theology and practices of other Protestant churches, especially the use of professional pastors. It was this migration which left the Quakers on their original site not a weak body, but shorn of much of its strength. We are glad to realize that they are again making themselves a part of civic life and doing their part politically, as well as socially, in the great civic awakening which is spreading over our country. If you know something about this item or would like to request additional information, click here. The agreement allowed Durant land between the Little River and Albemarle Sound, and the records still exist making them the oldest surviving land deeds in North Carolina. In the next generation these were skills that enabled the young men to lead their people into newer untouched lands to the west. 1825), the Thomas Nixon Plantation (1848), and the Piney Woods Friends Meetinghouse (1854) are distinguishable nineteenth century houses in the county. 1730) is one of the oldest colonial buildings within North Carolina. Governor Walker aroused the Church of England in such, words as these addressed to the Bishop of London: My Lord, we have been settled near this fifty years in this place, and I may justly say most part of twenty-one years, on my own knowledge, without priest or altar, and before that time, according to all that appears to me, much worse, George Fox some years ago came into these parts and by strange infatuations, did infuse the Quakers principles into some small number of the people; which did and hath continued to grow ever since very numerous, by reason of their yearly sending in men to encourage and exhort them to their wicked principles; and here was none to dispute nor to oppose them in carrying on their pernicious principles for many years, until God, of his infinite goodness was pleased to inspire the Rev. Knowing where your Quaker ancestor settled is a . [32] The community of New Garden evolved over the years. For this crime of activism, Pricklove was sentenced to have his right ear amputated and be banished from the colony. North Carolina Quakers are centered in Greensboro, where the denominations major institutions are located: the yearly meeting office, Guilford College, and Friends Homes, Inc., a nationally recognized retirement community. Construction for a new Meeting House began in 1791, and in 1884 yet another Meeting House was built. The second of these services was at the home and by the invitation of one Francis Toms, a justice of the peace, who with his wife had at the first meeting received the truth with gladness. Edmundson was followed in a few months by George Fox himself, the founder of the church. The email address you submit will not be displayed and would only be used to contact you with additional questions or comments. //dump($i); Perquimans County: A Brief History. It also involves the beginning of all North Carolina church history; for, so far as known, the first religious gathering in the State was a Quaker meeting. The manner in which these differences were settled is something like this: the two contesting parties would each name an equal number of individuals to act as arbitrators, and the church would appoint one; and generally such a committee reached a satisfactory conclusion. The southern community met the Quaker antislavery stance with escalating hostility, precipitating mass migrations of Quakers to the free states of Ohio and Indiana. In 1676 Drummond returned to Virginia where he became actively involved in Bacons Rebellion. Concerned with the question of slavery, they knew they could not operate their farms without slave help. In 1748, Thomas Beals officially founded the Quaker community of New Garden. This migration occurred due to the . 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