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From: Crilley <>
Subject: [NCBERTIE] Quakers in the Rev War
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 11:15:12 -0500


Someone just raised the question about the role of the Quakers in Bertie
County in the Revolutionary War.

This is certainly an interesting question....and I'm just sure there must
have been some historical articles written on this subject somewhere!! If
anyone had access to a Library....or could explore on-line, please share
with our Bertie List.

I don't know if we have any families on this list that were Quakers, but
they certainly did exist in this area.

Here's some resources for Quakers in general:

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY VOL I NC - Wm. Wade Hinshaw is an
excellent source for Quakers.

QUAKER RESEARCH

Quaker Collection
Hege Library
Guilford College
5700 W. Friendly Ave.
Greensboro, NC 27410

336-316-2450 (Call first as hours vary)
http://www.guilford.edu/LibraryArt/fhc.htm

The Friends Historical Collections has a large number of compiled histories
from many
sources, many manuscripts. Microfilm of the NC records used by Hinshaw for
Volume I, and
perhaps some of the other state's MM minutes. (All the extant Quaker church
records, even
some back to 1666.) There are archives there that contain some of the
original documents.
The library staff and volunteers will do research, for a small donation to
the collection.

When you look at the original documents, you will realize how wonderful the
Hinshaw
abstracts are. To find a particular item in the MM minutes, you need all of
the location
information provided in Hinshaw, then you can search sequentially (either
by page number or
by date) through the microfilm to find the original entry. There are some
original
manuscripts of Hinshaw's abstracts from the Quaker records, bound by
monthly meeting. These
are the original typed copies and usually use words instead of so many
abbreviations.
Contributed by: Robert Hill

Manuscript Library at Duke University in Durham or the Divinity School
Library. Also, the
North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church at 1307 Glenwood
Avenue, Raleigh,
NC Their mailing address is PO Box 10955, Raleigh, NC 27605. Phone numbers are
1-800-849-4433 and (919) 832-9560.

Virginia

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