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Rachel Wright

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Life and Orange County connections

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October 7, 1751 Quakers set up Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in the country that became Orange County About thirty Quaker families from Pennsylvania had settled near Cane Creek by 1751. Abigail Pike and Rachel Wright traveled 200 miles to the Perquimans County quarterly meeting for authority to organize, and the first monthly meeting was held on October 7, 1751. It is the oldest Quaker meeting in the North Carolina Piedmont. People: Rachel Wright Place: Orange County · Also named: Abigail PikeSearch the index · NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: Cane Creek Meeting (G-69)

Indexed works

Works about or by Rachel Wright. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.

A church quarrel and what resulted

White, Julia S. · 1900

Julia S. White's short piece on a quarrel at the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends and what followed from it, printed in 1900 as pages 90 to 98 of a larger work. The account includes Herman Husbands, 1724 to 1795, and Rachel Wright, linking the episode to the Regulator Insurrection of 1766 to 1771, centered on Hillsborough when Cane Creek still lay in Orange County.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Wright, Rachel, 1719?-1771.

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Places in this person’s story

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Cane Creek Friends Meeting Churches and lodges · Cane Creek · 1 event here

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Background

Cane Creek Meeting (G-69)NC Highway Historical Marker A brief account tied to a place

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Local help

Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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