Cane Creek Friends Meeting

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1. 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 NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: Cane Creek Meeting (G-69)
2. January 7, 1764 Cane Creek Monthly Meeting disowns Herman Husband The Quakers of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting disowned Herman Husband for openly criticizing the meeting's grant of a certificate of removal to Rachel Wright, a member who had committed some disorder. Internet Archive: Archibald Henderson, ed., "Hermon Husband's Continuation of the Impartial Relation", North Carolina Historical Review 18 (1941), p. 57
3. March 1799 The Cane Creek women's meeting disowns Elizabeth Wells The Cane Creek Women's Meeting of Friends disowned Elizabeth Wells for having a child while unmarried. In October 1798 she had named Thomas Crayton of Randolph County as the father before Orange justices, and her daughter Margaret was born on 8 December. Mark Chilton, Natural Child: Legitimacy, Sexuality and Shame in the Court Records of Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)
4. April 1803 The Cane Creek women's meeting accepts Elizabeth Wells's acknowledgment Elizabeth Wells, disowned four years earlier, gave the Cane Creek Women's Meeting a written offering condemning her past conduct, which the meeting received as satisfaction. Mark Chilton, Natural Child: Legitimacy, Sexuality and Shame in the Court Records of Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)
5. April to June 1805 (4th to 6th month) Cane Creek Friends read out a testimony against Miriam Lamb In April 1805 (fourth month) the Cane Creek preparative meeting complained of Miriam Lamb for having a child while unmarried. The women's meeting signed a testimony against her in May, the monthly meeting approved it, and Joseph Hill was appointed to read it out at the close of a meeting for worship at Cane Creek, which was reported done in June. Mark Chilton, Natural Child: Legitimacy, Sexuality and Shame in the Court Records of Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)
6. June 1828 (6th month) Cane Creek women Friends disown Elizabeth Marshall for having a child while unmarried On a complaint from the Cane Creek preparative meeting, the Cane Creek Women's Meeting of Friends disowned Elizabeth Marshall from membership for having a child while unmarried. Mark Chilton, Natural Child: Legitimacy, Sexuality and Shame in the Court Records of Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)

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