An American Family History

The New Garden Monthly Meeting minutes record the beginnings of the Deep River Meeting.

30 of ye 1th month, 1754
Friends at Deep River requested a meeting for worship at the house of Benjamin Beeson which this meeting grants until further orders. Except when it is at Mordecai Mendenhalls.

Ye 31st of ye 1st mo., 1756,
Friends having had in consideration for some time the settling of a meeting for worship at Deep River, it is accordingly concluded the same should be laid before the Quarterly Meeting for their concurence.

The minutes of the Eastern Quarterly Meeting read:

At the old neck in the county of Perquimons the 27 day of the 2nd mo, 1756, it appeared to this meeting by a few lines from friends of New Garden that friends near Deep River were desirous to have a first day meeting for worship settled among them, and friends having weightily considered thereof think it may not be improper to grant them the Liberty.

Richard Beeson requests a meeting for worship to be held at his house once in two weeks on a Fifth day of the week which this meeting grants until further orders.

They built their first meeting house in 1758.

Most Quakers refused to take part in the Revolutionary War.

The Deep River meeting was authorized in 1778.

Preparative meetings under Deep River Monthly Meeting included Deep River, Springfield, Muddy Creek, Deep Creek, Belews Creek, Gum Swamp and Hitchcock.