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From: Barbara Pridgen <>
Subject: [Q-R] Re: QUAKER-ROOTS-D Digest V03 #347
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 10:47:57 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <200308021600.h72G0mnJ021521@lists5.rootsweb.com>


Does anyone know of any good websites about Quakers in
New England states who provided/helped Native
Americans and/or Black (slave or free) or provided
schooling. Does anyone have the names of such
schools?
Thank you.

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> QUAKER-ROOTS-D DigestVolume 03 : Issue 347
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> Today's Topics:
> #1 Re: [Q-R] Quaker Hobson Line [Gregory
> McReynolds <quillcottage@e]
> #2 Re: [Q-R] CONTENTNEA Meeting, Wher ["James
> Peacock" <]
> #3 [Q-R] [Fwd: [Newsletter-plus-html] [Cheska
> Wheatley <.]
> #4 Re: [Q-R] CONTENTNEA Meeting, Wher [Jean
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> ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822
> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 20:02:22 -0700
> From: Gregory McReynolds
> <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Q-R] Quaker Hobson Line
>
> Hello Forrest,
>
> Your John Watt Hobson (b. 1835-?) and my Belinda
> Hobson Schofield
> (1834-1924) were siblings. I was surprised to find
> the extent of Aunt
> Alice's writing regarding Linneas as I don't think
> our family kept up with
> him. I think S.U.I is the State University of Iowa
> but I don't know for sure
> - maybe someone on the list knows.
>
> Best wishes,
> Gregory
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 8/1/03 5:10 PM, "Forrest G Plumstead"
> <> wrote:
>
> > Hi Greg and List!
> >
> > Greg, I'm the one responsible for starting the
> thread on the HOBSONs and
> > Linneas. Let me better introduce myself to the
> list. I am Forrest Gene
> > PLUMSTEAD, son of Arthur James PLUMSTEAD, son of
> Florence Ellen HOBSON
> > w/o Robert Clemens PLUMSTEAD d/o Linneas HOBSON.
> This man has fascinated
> > me. According to family legend he had a fierce
> temper, and although I
> > have heard no stories about violence, he was not a
> man you wanted to
> > cross. The story that I heard was that he was
> disbarred as a lawyer
> > because of his temper. There was also a story
> that he was orphaned at an
> > early age and kicked around from foster home to
> foster home until at age
> > 16 he went out on his own, however that story has
> been disproved by the
> > 1880 Blackhawk Co. Census which showed him living
> with his father,
> > stepmother and grandmother HEALD. Another story
> which I heard recently
> > was that when he went to Denver, (where my
> grandmother was born 1899) he
> > made some bad business decisions regarding some
> get rich quick schemes
> > and lost all his money. He died in 1934 I do not
> know where but when my
> > great aunt, Florence's sister wrote her and told
> her of her father's
> > death, her only reaction was "Good riddance!"
> Greg if you missed my
> > first post you managed to answer the one question
> which has been bugging
> > me for over a year and that is where did he go to
> law school (I presume
> > that SUI would be Southern University of Iowa?)
> and where he practiced
> > law.
> >
> > I also have Lydia Watt in my records as the wife
> of Stephen HOBSON. You
> > already have my records of John HOBSON's wives.
> >
> > Forrest Plumstead
> > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fplum
> > For New to Genealogy and Favorite Links click
> above
> > Researching: Plumstead Schroeder Risser Hobson
> Senne Heald Thayer Ross
> >
> > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:52:43 -0700 Gregory
> McReynolds
> > <> writes:
> > Hi Jerry,
> >
> > Its definitely Lydia Watt, she was the daughter of
> John Watt and Jane
> > Starr - Lydia is my my gt-gt-gt grandmother. The
> Plymouth record must be
> > wrong. Stephen Hobson and Lydia Watt were married
> 3 Nov 1831 in
> > Jefferson Co., Ohio.
> >
> > Thank you for the clarification on Mary Ann Heald.
> From the family
> > record kept by my grandaunt Alice Fawcett Emerson:
> >
> > John Hobson of Waterloo, Iowa - first wife Lucinda
> Engle? - 2 children,
> > one a son Linneas (lives Denver). John Hobson had
> a second wife name
> > unknown, no children. Third wife was
> Ella_________.
> >
> > "Linneas (her spelling) graduated from law school
> at S.U.I Practiced in
> > Orange City, Ia. Gave it up on conscientious
> scruples. Later moved to
> > Denver, Colorado."
> >
> > Is the interest in Linneaus due to a descendant
> sending in a query that
> > I missed?
> >
> > Best wishes, Gregory
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> ATTACHMENT part 3 message/rfc822
> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 22:50:22 -0500
> From: "James Peacock" <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Q-R] CONTENTNEA Meeting, Where?
>
> Has anyone answered the question of where Contentnea
> Meeting was?
>
> I must have missed that query. If anyone is
> interested in the location, we
> located it about three years ago. With a clue from
> Tom Hamm and diligent
> work from three Wayne County, North Carolina
> cousins, the cemetery was found
> and the area where the meeting house probably stood.
> We hope to put up a
> historic marker next year at the location. Roughly
> speaking it's about two
> and a half miles south east of Freemont, North
> Carolina.
> Jim Peacock
>
> ______________________________

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> ATTACHMENT part 5 message/rfc822
> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 07:50:49 -0500
> From: Jean Leeper <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Q-R] CONTENTNEA Meeting, Where?
>
> Thank you, James and others who replied.
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> Jean
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> James Peacock wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone answered the question of where
> Contentnea Meeting was?
> >
> > I must have missed that query. If anyone is
> interested in the location, we
> > located it about three years ago. With a clue
> from Tom Hamm and diligent
> > work from three Wayne County, North Carolina
> cousins, the cemetery was found
> > and the area where the meeting house probably
> stood. We hope to put up a
> > historic marker next year at the location.
> Roughly speaking it's about two
> > and a half miles south east of Freemont, North
> Carolina.
> > Jim Peacock
> >
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