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Cane Creek Monthly Meeting

The Society of Friends (Quakers) began in England in the 1650s, when they broke away from the Puritans. Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn, as a safe place for Friends to live and practice their faith.

Cane Creek Monthly Meeting is near Snow Camp, Almance County, North Carolina.

The first Monthly Meeting at Cane Creek was held on October 7, 1751. There were 30 Quaker families in the area.

In 1761 the meeting was divided by a dispute.

Early members included:

Name From Notes
Adams, William & Susanna    
Aldrage, William    
Allen, John & Rachel Stout    
Atkinson, John & Mary    
Ballenger, Henry and family    
Barker, Nicholas    
Branson, Thomas   dissenter in dispute
Brown, William & Hannah    
Brooks, Matthew & Elizabeth    
Buckenham, Joseph    
Carter, James    
Chambers, Samuel & Sarah    
Chamness, Anthony & Sarah Cole Maryland  
Chamness, Joshua & Rachel Williams   s. of Anthony Chamness
Cloud, Mary Underwood    
Cox, John & Mary    
Cox, William and Phebe   dissenters in dispute
Cox, Julitha   dissenter in dispute
Davis, John & Mary Chamness   d. of Anthony Chamness
Dixon, Nathan & Sarah    
Dixon, Simon & Elizabeth Allen Lancaster, Pennsylvania  
Dixon, Solomon & Hannah Hunt    
Dixon, Thomas & Abigail    
Doan, John & Elizabeth Overman    
Hadley, Joshua & Patience Brown Chester, Pennsylvania  
Hiatt, John    
Hiatt, Martha and children    
Hinshaw, Benjamin    
Hinshaw, Jacob & Rebecca Macky    
Hinshaw, Jesse    
Hinshaw, Joseph & Margery Kemp    
Hinshaw, Thomas    
Hinshaw, William    
Hornaday Lewis & Rebecca Pike    
Husband, Herman and Amy Pugh   disowned for dissent in dispute
Jones, Aaron Chester, PA b 1728 30 Jul 1728. son of Richard Jones and Miriam Coppock.
Jones, John and Mary Berks, PA  
Jones, Thomas    
Kemp, Richard & Susannah    
Laughlin, Hugh and Mary    
Lindley, Thomas & Ruth Hadley Chester, PA  
Long, John & Mary C.    
Maddock, Joseph   dissenter in dispute, moved to Wrightsborough
Maris, George & Elenor    
Marshall, John & Ruth Hadley   dissenters in dispute, daughter of Joshua Hadley
Marshall, William & Rebecca Dixon   dissenters in dispute
Martin, Benjamin    
Martin, Zachariah    
Moffit, Mary   dissenter in dispute
Moon, John & Rachel    
Knight, Abel and Family Abington  
Ozbun, Thomas    
Pike, John and Abigail Overman    
Powell, John    
Reynolds, William and family    
Sell, Jonathan   dissenter in dispute, moved to Wrightsborough
Stanfield, John and Hannah Hadley Dixon    
Stanfield, John, Jr.    
Stanfield, Samuel and Lydia Vernon    
Stanfield, Thomas    
Stout, Hannah Brown    
Stout, Mary Noblett    
Stout Peter & Charity    
Stout, Peter & Hannah    
Stout, Peter & Margaret    
Stuart, Jehu    
Swainey, Mary    
Summers, Robert and family    
Taylor, James and Frances    
Tidwell, John    
Vernon, Isaac and Hannah Townsend    
Vestal, Elizabeth and sons, William and Thomas    
Wells, Joseph and Charity    
Williams, George    
Wright, John and Rachel Wells Chester, PA Rachel disciplined for speaking out.

In 1764, William Marshall and his wife Rebecca Dixon donated twenty-six acres for the meetinghouse.

 

 
 

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May 16, 1973

 
 

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