A significant contribution to minority education was the High Point Normal and Industrial Institute, which was founded in 1891 and eventually was incorporated into the public school system as William Penn High School. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncperqui/history.htm, (accessed on August 19, 2011). Fifty acres were offered to each man who would relocate there for the first year, twenty-five acres for a second year. Samuel Pricklove was one of the first residents of Perquimans Precinct, arriving even before settler George Durant, in 1662. Perquimans County continued to be the radiating center for Quakerism for the first century of the State's history; that is, until the great migratory wave of Quakers from Nantucket, New England, Pennsylvania, and other points north had swept into our borders and organized themselves and asserted their powers. But for eighty-eight years (till 1786) the yearly meeting of North Carolina (that is the highest authority in the church) was held either at Perquimans or Old Neck or Little Riverall in Perquimans County. [March] 1733/4. When unrest in Albemarle broke out in Culpepers Rebellion, in 1677, Thomas Miller, an apothecary from Pasquotank, was serving as Deputy Governor in place of Thomas Eastchurch. In these places the year officially began on 25 March (Lady Day) and ended on the following 24 March. [3] Perquimans County, North Carolina Record Dates[ edit | edit source] of today; notable among them is the privilege of affirmation by any individual and in any court of justice, rather than the taking of the legal oath. 1880. 7 Issue 4, April 1908 , p 278-289 1 (1936). [29] In 1961 the current Meeting House was built and has been used since then[30]. Both served as local officials and were the first two settlers of the area. Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love. 1866 Freedmen's Bureau record regarding 75 unnamed Randolph County Quakers abandoning their homes and fleeing to Indiana, the "more quiet west," with at least 125 more to follow. After 1752, all months were referred to by Quakers by their number. It seems that one Jonathan Pearson had for some reason filled up the spring to which Friends of this meeting had had access. Greensboro, However, the Quakers faced extra taxes for these exemptions, which were paid to the Crown. The problem for the modern reader is remembering that the year did not begin on 1 January until 1752, so that until 1752 February was Twelfth Month and March First Month for Quakers. Many Quakers accepted this offer and moved west. The first Quaker in North Carolina was one Henry Phillips, who had been a member of that church in New England previous to his coming to Carolina in 1665; though William Edmundson, an Irish Quaker preacher, was the real instigator of Quakerism among the settlers. Abundance of water also aided the farmers with their crops and for their homes. By the mid-eighteenth century, the backcountry was growing rapidly because of a large influx of settlers from Pennsylvania and Virginia, some of whom were Quakers who formed meetings for worship in the Cane Creek valley and to the west in modern Guilford County. Nathanael Greene, who led the Americans in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, was born in 1742 and raised in the Rhode Island Society of Friends. In 1631 Governor John Harvey determined to secure the area between the James and York Rivers by building a palisade across the peninsula between Archers Hope (College Creek) and Queens Creek. The Quaker dissenters in England had been prohibited from attending the public schools there, leading the Friends to establish their own schools to provide their young people with the education and religious precepts of their faith. Basil Sanders, who left 860 acres of land in Chowan County to a William Hill of Antigua in 1721, was likely the son of one of the above Sanders couples. Encyclopedia of North Carolina (University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, NC 2006). He served from 1667-1669. Colonists burned the ship, and the Crown called for an investigation of the conspirators. They objected to using those names of days (Sunday to Saturday) and months (January to August) which derived from heathen gods or goddesses, employing instead numbers: thus Sunday was for them First Day. The key factor, however, in the diaspora of southern Quakers was their witness against slavery, which began in the late eighteenth century and intensified in the nineteenth century. Presently there is extensive cooperation among all major branches of the Society of Friendsthe Friends United Meeting, the Conservative, Evangelical Friends Alliance, and the Friends General Conference. Soldiers and robbers pillaged civilian homes and stole livestock and crops. The migratory spirit was in the air and the old Teutonic blood which had made our sturdy forefathers first cross the Virginia border now impelled many of them to move from the lowlands to the Piedmont section of the State. From an 1887 conference in Richmond, Ind., emerged both a uniform discipline and eventually the Friends United Meeting, first called the Five Years Meeting. Accessed 12/2011. This was done in 1681, and in 1698 the yearly meeting was established, embracing only the one quarter and the two monthly meetings. Another point in which the Quakers figure largely in the early law annals of our State and in which the Quakers of Perquimans must have been prime movers, as it occurred in the years when they were the leaders of Quakerism in the State, is in regard to taking up arms. Marrying out, that is, marrying some one not in membership with the Friends, was a disownable offense; and it was thus that the Quakers lost many members. Quaker settlement in North Carolina began in Perquimans and Pasquotank Counties, some 200 miles east of Guilford County. All rights reserved. The Quakers opposed such activities as the declaration of American Independence, which led to the Revolutionary War (1775-1781), because they believed that governments were divinely instituted and that they should only rebel should the government disobey the laws of God.[8] In 1695, a Quaker named John Archdale had been governor of North Carolina. Following the Cary Rebellion of 1711, Friends were effectively excluded from colonial politics and thereafter seldom held office in the state until modern times. Drummond was sentenced to be hanged. By the end of the war there were few Friends left in the state, and without the aid of northern Quakers, particularly the support of Francis King and the Baltimore Association, the church might have disappeared from North Carolina. For this crime of activism, Pricklove was sentenced to have his right ear amputated and be banished from the colony. * * * It drew to itself a number of the intelligent and well-disposed inhabitants, especially of Perquimans and Pasquotank. By the end of the century there were two monthly meetings in Perquimans and another in Pasquotank. I mention the last for it is not a matter of conjecture, but a matter of history that the present Speaker of the House, Joseph G. Cannon, is not only of Quaker extraction through his mother, but also on his father's side; and that were the Cannons of Guilford County traced back a few generations, Perquimans might come in for a share of the honor, if such there be, attaching to our countryman. Catchmade organized groups to settle and seat the land that Durant had allocated from the Yeopim. A core belief of Quakerism is pacifism, which meant that Friends did not engage in violence. The Meeting House where Friends cared for many of the wounded soldiers burned in 1784. One of the earliest Quakers in Pasquotank County was Henry White who had come from Isle of Wight County, Virginia, around 1670. They preferred living in frontier areas where they were free of the social pressures of concentrated population. On August 1, 1661, and March 4, 1662, Durant finalized deeds with the chief of the Yeopim. The traitors imprisoned the governor, Thomas Miller, which led to the start of the rebellion. As a young man White had attended school in Isle of Wight County, where his father made a living as a cooper and served as Justice of the Peace. The southern community met the Quaker antislavery stance with escalating hostility, precipitating mass migrations of Quakers to the free states of Ohio and Indiana. It was this migration which left the Quakers on their original site not a weak body, but shorn of much of its strength. They used no hymns or outward manifestations in their worship, keeping silent until a person felt moved by God to share a message. Perquimans County, located in the Coastal Plain region of North Carolina, was formed in 1679 and originally called Berkeley Precinct of Albemarle County; it was later renamed for the Perquimans Indians of the area.It is partially bordered by the Albemarle Sound. It apparently was used as a form of communication with other Quaker meetings in various regions and to instruct his pupils with a religious message of the Quaker faith at the same time. North Carolina Friends entered a century-long period of decline during the civil strife that began with the War of the Regulation and continued into the American Revolution. Concerned with the question of slavery, they knew they could not operate their farms without slave help. That makes it one of the oldest towns in the state. Should either party appeal to the courts for justice, he was immediately churched,. The church would not grant its permission to a marriage request sometimes, and such a thing as a man's not having paid his debts would hinder no less than grosser evils if such were detected. (Page 45) "Transcribed out of an old Book By Thos. [5] Beals brought the name New Garden to the community from Pennsylvania, where a community was named after Newgarden in County Carlow, Ireland. This article is from the Encyclopedia of North Carolina edited by William S. Powell. By 1888, from this small beginning, evolved Guilford College, which has achieved a national reputation for excellence as a liberal arts college. Thus the year 1751 began on 25 March 1751 and ended on 31 December 1751, which was immediately followed by 1 January 1752. The source of these rivers was the Great Dismal Swamp, where the color of the water was a deep red, caused by the waters passing through the roots of the cypress trees. Greene wrote a letter to the Friends requesting they provide relief of the suffering wounded at Guilford Court House. [22] The Meeting responded that they would do all that lies in [their] power to assist the wounded, despite the recent theft of resources by both British and American soldiers. In 1676 Drummond returned to Virginia where he became actively involved in Bacons Rebellion. QUAKER CALENDAR. So much for the Quakers of Perquimans and their relation to the State. His grandfather, Henry White, had lived on Queens Creek in York County, north of Williamsburg. Members include men, women, and people of color. For nearly three-quarters of a century (till 1757) this was the condition of the church. It is important to note that in Europe and in Scotland the new calendar (the Gregorian) had already superseded the Julian calendar. Feb 17, 2013. To write of the Quakers of Perquimans County involves almost the complete history of the Friends Church in North Carolina for the first seventy-five years of its existence. "Faculty and Staff, New Garden Boarding School." Weeks in chapters III andIVof "Southern Quakers Slavery." The earliest existing records of a monthly meeting in . Following this belief, the New Garden Friends cared for 250 wounded British and American soldiers in the Meeting House and in individual homes. Nine Friends were fined and imprisoned in 1680 for refusing to bear arms. The whole thing with the signatures is properly recorded in the church books provided for that purpose. Knowing where your Quaker ancestor settled is a . That November, George Fox spent nearly three weeks in the settlement leading numerous worship services, meeting with the governor and other officials, and preaching to the local Indians. Stephens had owned a tract of 4,000 acres of land in Albemarle which was sold upon his death to John Hill of York County. x232 Their records show many points of interest and much which seems to us like an infringement of personal liberty and that the church was overstepping its bounds. The Quakers exhibited their influence throughout Perquimans until the end of the Cary Rebellion in the early 1700s. Their vigorous public witness against political, social, and religious discrimination led to their persecution in England and the eventual establishment by William Penn of a colonial refuge in Pennsylvania. Edenton became the seat of government in 1716, and the Quakers lost most of their sway in Perquimanss politics. Dating to 1668, it was an important colonial settlement and the site of North Carolina's first organized religious service, a Quaker meeting. Peirce Senr, Thos. That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet; and on the naming of their places of worship, the Friends had no ear for the artistic or euphonious, but were purely local. These families came to be linked by intermarriage many times over. Following the first landowners who settled along the main rivers and shores of Albemarle Sound, new arrivals were finding homesites father up near the heads of the four main rivers. Albemarle was becoming quite populated. Friends are on record as protesting the unrest generated by Culpepers Rebellion, and in 1680 nine Friends were imprisoned for refusing militia service. Title. Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, USA 399; 93%; 0%; Riddicks Grove Cemetery . Full-Time. Perquimans County. William S. Powell, ed. Named in after Hertford, England, Hertford was originally Phelps Point because Jonathan Phelps owned the land. The land configurations of Albemarle made the area attractive and accessible. The Newbold-White House (ca. It also involves the beginning of all North Carolina church history; for, so far as known, the first religious gathering in the State was a Quaker meeting. A fullaccount of this beginning is given by Dr. S'.epr.en B. But these are of the early days. In 1663, George Catchmade, a member of the House of Burgesses, received a grant from Lord Proprietor William Berkeley. While at present-day Hertford at Henry Phelpss home, the Fox brothers organized the first religious meeting that residents had ever been experienced in the county. QUAKER HISTORY by L. Maren Wood. Nathanael Greene was accused of conspiring against the Crown. Says the Rt. In Europe and in Scotland a different calendar (the Gregorian) had superseded the Julian calendar, with a year which did begin on 1 January. In 1888, the town was renamed Guilford College, and remained so until 1972 when it was incorporated into the city of Greensboro. [6] Two years later, the Friends approved a monthly meeting at New Garden in order to save them the 30-mile horseback ride. The Society experienced religious persecution in England and in 1656 they began emigrating, settling primarily in the Pennsylvania Colony. They had no difficulty (until 1752 see below) with the months September to December, which derived from numbers; but for the other months, they substituted numbers, writing them out as First Month, Second Month, and so on. When Edmundson returned to the colony in 1676, he reported that Friends were finely settled. Tradition has it that the earliest meeting for worship was established in present Perquimans County at the home of Francis Toms, which was also the site of the first meeting in 1698 of North Carolina Yearly Meeting, the oldest extant religious organization in the state. The Quakers belief that every human contained the inner light of God allowed the Friends to put aside any personal grievances and help those in need. 1730) is one of the oldest colonial buildings within North Carolina. Elisha Parker was b. say 1725. Carys Rebellion, named after Thomas Cary a Bath politician and rebellion leader, was the result of an power struggle among the southern precincts because all of them sought equal representation, and because of Carys cause to protect the fur trade which was central to Baths economy. That the Quakers were a large majority of the inhabitants of Perquimans in 1723 can be almost assured from the following data. The committee of investigation is appointed and the tavern keeper, by forsaking his chosen business, is restored into good fellowship. Copyright 2006 by the University of North Carolina Press. In the stages of the countys early history a political dispute led to Culpepers Rebellion in 1677. If you are doing an assignment, ask your professor which style to use. [2] Source: Year Book Volume 2 Pasquotank Historical Society Elizabeth City, N.C. Edited by John Elliott Wood (1958). [April] 1731, 12 x [December] 1740 or 12 10 mo. The rebels, led by John Culpeper, arrested Gov. Many users of Quaker records find that the way in which Quakers dated letters, minutes and other documents, particularly before 1752, poses problems. The trappers and their families were the first settlers to the region, but as soon as immigrants operating under Catchmades charter arrived, tensions arose. This phone number extension will direct your call to the Visitor Center where you can speak with a Park Ranger or Volunteer. Perquimans County Courthouse 128 N. Church Street Hertford, NC 27944 Phone: 252-404-5000 Perquimans County Website Register of Deeds has marriage and land records. [24] [25], The Quakers of New Garden were not alone in caring for the wounded. Beals came from Virginia to the Cane Creek settlement before continuing the 30 miles west to New Garden. North Carolina Quakerism had its beginning, toward the end of the seventeenth century, in the Precincts of Perquimans and Pasquotank. Upon every occasion careful inquiry is made in regard to the life and conversation of the parties wishing to marry, and especially in regard to their freedom from marriage relations; and then the church has its representatives present at the wedding and they must be responsible and report on the good order maintained at the ceremony and produce to the meeting the marriage certificate always very carefully and explicitly written, with the names of many witnesses to the ceremony affixed thereto. In 1778, the British launched the Southern Campaign in an attempt to gather support from the supposed Loyalist population in the Southern states. Friends (this term is far preferable to Quaker, though the latter has no longer the opprobrium of its origin) until very recent years included in their church organization four distinct assemblies, viz: the Preparative, the Monthly, the Quarterly, and the Yearly Meeting. NC For personal use and not for further distribution. 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