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From: "Hill, Thomas C." <>
Subject: RE: Virginia Research Trip
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 99 20:37:00 -0500


Some of the earliest Virginia records now reside in the Huntington Library
in San Marino, California, but the Virginia State Library has photostats of
those and many Virginia records now in the official depository for Virginia
Yearly Meeting, Haverford College, where the records were deposited by the
Orthodox branch of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. I have never confirmed a
separate monthly meeting at Genito (which Weeks places in Goochland County),
but the Upper Quarterly Meeting of 1759/04/04 established the schedule for
the "Circular" monthly meeting (which became settled at Cedar Creek) as 3
months at Camp Creek, 3 months at Caroline (county), 3 months at Cedar
Creek, and 3 months at [what I read as] Genete.

I think previous posts on this list have discussed where that and other
meetings for worship met. I have seen a paper on "Early Caroline Quakers
and Their Meeting House" prepared for _Tidewater Virginia Families_; perhaps
someone prepared something similar for Hanover and Goochland Counties.

>From MONTHLY MEETINGS IN NORTH AMERICA: A QUAKER INDEX, FOURTH EDITION,
REVISED (with corrections through March 27, 1998) Copyright 1998, and
minor additions and format changes for the electronic version:

VIRGINIA Yearly Meeting opened 1696/10 or 1702/09 and laid itself down
1844/05/22, attaching itself to Baltimore Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) as (the
new) Virginia Half-Yearly Meeting. Baltimore (FUM) Yearly Meeting in 1967
stored the Virginia records at the Quaker Collection, Haverford College
Library, Haverford, Pennsylvania; the Virginia State Library, Richmond,
having earlier obtained photostats of many of these and other records held
privately. Phebe R. Jacobsen, Quaker Records in Maryland (1966), traces the
meetings and lists the records microfilmed by the Maryland State Archives
before the transfer to Haverford, with microfilm stored at the Hall of
Records in Annapolis and copies at the Friends Historical Library of
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Jay Worrall, Jr, The Friendly
Virginians: America's First Quakers (1994), discusses all the meetings and
many individual Friends in Virginia from the 1650s until about 1991.

Monthly Meeting Name : CAMP CREEK
State or Province : VIRGINIA County: LOUISA
Location : POINDEXTER, LOUISA COURTHOUSE, 11 MI. SW, GREEN
SPRING
Latest Yearly Meeting : VIRGINIA
Other Affiliations : UPPER Q.M.
Date Granted : 1748 YM
Date of First Meeting : 1748
Date Laid Down : 1753/09/06
Date of Last Meeting : 1753/09
Where Records Kept : pc VA. STATE LIB.
Comments : PM 1744-1798BEF FROM RICHMOND (UPPER, CAROLINE, CEDAR
CREEK) MM. MERGED INTO RICHMOND (CEDAR CREEK) MM. WORSHIP L.D. 1798/02/04.
PMs: FORK CREEK UNTIL 1753AFT. SUGARLOAF MOUNTAIN. DOUGLAS'S. SEE HINSHAW,
ENCYCL. OF AMER. QUAKER GENEAL., Vol VI, pp. 283-287.

Monthly Meeting Name : RICHMOND
Other Name(s) : UPPER, ALTERNATELY, UNTIL 1748. CAROLINE COUNTY,
ALSO, UNTIL 1753. CEDAR CREEK 1753-1875/06/09
State or Province : VIRGINIA County: HANOVER
Location : RICHMOND 23221, 4500 KENSINGTON AVE.
Latest Yearly Meeting : BALTIMORE (CONSOLIDATED)
Other Affiliations : UPPER (BLACK WATER, CURLES) Q.M. UNTIL 1843
: VIRGINIA Y.M. UNTIL 1844/05/15
: VIRGINIA Q.M. (H.Y.M.) AFTER 1844/05/22
: [ORTHODOX, FUM] 1828-1969/11/16
Date Granted : 1738/09/16
Date of First Meeting : 1739/05/12
Current Status : ACTIVE
Where Records Kept : HAVERFORD pc VA. ST. LIB. mf tr MD HALL REC
M821-23. LDS 31762, 899817, 924685, 1313476. SWARTHMORE
Records Known Extant : HAVERFORD BYM-O ARCHIVES: MIN 1739-1773, 1775-1798,
1811-1962, 1970-1974, WOMEN MIN 1754-1764, 1816-1890, BIRTHS, DEATHS &
MARRIAGES 1729-1755, MEMB 1732-1916, BIRTHS & DEATHS 1740-1824 (pc),
MARRIAGES 1779-1894, REMOVALS 1788-1857, 1898-1901, DISOWNMENTS 1786-1891,
CEDAR CREEK PM MIN 1790-1792, M&E MIN 1791-1837, 1891-1922, RICHMOND PM MIN
1815-1818. HENRY E. HUNTINGTON LIB: BIRTHS 1760-1794, DEATHS 1769-1822,
MARRIAGES 1799-1808
Comments : CEDAR CREEK PM 1721-1858/08 FROM WEYANOKE (WHITE OAK
SWAMP, HENRICO) MM. RICHMOND W. 1795/02/15, PM 1800-1841 UNDER WEYENOKE
(WHITE OAK SWAMP) MM. PMs: CAMP CREEK 1753-1798BEF. FORK CREEK [LOUISA CTY.]
1753-1787BEF. CAROLINE 1739-1844. DOUGLAS [ORANGE CTY.]. SUGAR LOAF MOUNTAIN
[ALBEMARLE]. MIDLOTHIAN 1989-1995. ASHLAND 1989. WORSHIP: SOUTH FORK
1754/10/12G. SEE HINSHAW, ENCYCL. OF AMER. QUAKER GENEAL., Vol VI, pp. 5-19,
223-282.

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From: Kerry L. Martin
To: hill; ''
Subject: Virginia Research Trip
Date: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 3:30PM

Dear Rooters:

I will be in the Richmond, Virginia area this summer and am planning a
little genealogy research. I am interested in seeing the MM records of some
of the meetings in early Virginia (1650 - 1790). Am interested in finding
the records of the following meetings:

Camp Creek MM
Cedar Creek MM
Genito MM

Does anyone know if the records still exist and where they are located?
Also interested in finding out the location of those meetings - do any
structures survive? are there any cemeteries in the area that were
connected to these communities?

I am researching the following families:

Thanks for any suggestions/assistance!

Kerry Barnett Martin

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