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From: Thomas Hamm <>
Subject: Re: Deep River MM NC and Muddy Creek
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:15:43 -0500 (EST)

>Here is what I have on Muddy Creek:
>
>Friends of Muddy Creek requested a meeting for worship at New
>Garden MM on 11-30-1771. A midweek meeting was granted on
>12-28-1771.
>
>This meeting was established at Western QM on 11-13-1784.
>
>Muddy Creek was renamed Union when a Preparative Meeting was
>granted by Western QM on 8-15-1785.
>
>I don't have the exact location, except that it was about two
>miles south of Kernersville.
>
>Seth Hinshaw
>-----Original Message-----
>
>
>>Hinshaw Vol I mentions that Deep River MM North Carolina had a
>preparative
>>meeting for Muddy Creek but I can't find that a MM was
>established. Some of
>>my Quaker ancestors are listed as being from Muddy Creek. Does
>anyone know
>>the location of the Muddy Creek community which came under Deep
>River MM in
>>Guilford County?
>>
>>Don
>

I'll add that there is a small cemetery still at the site. Inscriptions
are included in the published Forsyth Co., NC, cemetery records.

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