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From: "Seth Hinshaw" <>
Subject: [Q-R] Re: Perquimans/Pasquotank
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 01:09:49


When Wm Edmundson arrived in North Carolina,
there were at least two Friends families
residing there: Henry and Hannah Phelps and
Christopher and Hannah Nicholson. Both of
these families had been persecuted in
Massachusetts as Friends. They sold their
property in Essex Co. MA and moved to NC
in the early 1660s. I have a copy of the
Nicholson deed of sale.

To my knowledge no one has ever claimed
that any of the other early Friends in the
Albemarle region moved there with Quaker
sympathies. It seems that the remainder
were converted by Fox and Edmundson.

The Journal of Wm Edmundson is available
in the Friends Library, vol. 2. This is
somewhat abridged from the original
printed version but it seems to be easier
to find for people who live outside of the
old Quaker settlements.

Seth


>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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