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From: "Virginia Beck" <>
Subject: [Q-R] Re: Perquimans/Pasquotank
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 16:43:12 -0800


Jim Crouch recently posted a site that was most helpful. It is primarily
about the Miami Valley, OH, but some digging through the links to the
Waynesville Library site
also provided a link to Perquimans/ Pasquotank in NC.
I had always assumed that our Quaker Hasket /Haskett/
Haskit family had fled England as a result of religious persecution, but the
Perquimans county history states that the early settlers (about 1650) had no
organized church, and little time for formal religion until Edmondson &
George Fox came there in 1672 and spoke to them. The first religious
meeting was held at the home of Henry Phelps in what later became Hertford.
Many of the settlers then became Quakers. They soon organized the first
church in NC, which remained the only organized religious body until 1701.
Needless to say, that they became Quakers after they immigrated came as
quite a surprise, and I have to rethink my concept of why these ancestors
immigrated, as well as my notes! Virginia



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