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[3]: 15 By 1751, as many as thirty other Quaker families had migrated to Snow Camp. [3]: 14 During 1751, Quaker Minister Abigail Pike and Rachel Wright traveled to Perquimans County, North Carolina to attend the Quarterly Meeting at Little River, in hopes of gaining permission to establish a new monthly meeting in Cane Creek.
Quakers were at the center of the movement to abolish slavery in the early United States; it is no coincidence that Pennsylvania, center of American Quakerism, was the first state to abolish slavery. In the antebellum period, "Quaker meeting houses [in Philadelphia] ...had sheltered abolitionists for generations."
South Carolina Bush River Monthly Meeting, Bush River, Newberry County, South Carolina , The State, "An Old Quaker Settlement. An Interesting Sketch of a Colony in Newberry," Columbia, South Carolina, February 8, 1897. Camden, Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina Old Quaker Cemetery; Tennessee
The Carolina Quaker Experience 1665-1985: An Interpretation, by Seth B. Hinshaw (Greensboro, NC: North Carolina Friends Historical Society, 1984) Carolina Quakers: Our Heritage of Hope, Tercentenary1672-1972 , edited by Seth B. Hinshaw and Mary Edith Hinshaw (Greensboro: North Carolina Yearly Meeting, 1972)
Pages in category "Quaker meeting houses in North Carolina" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Quakers were some of the earliest settlers in Northampton County, being established there by the early 1750s. The congregation in Rich Square was established in 1760, and was once a center for the Religious Society of Friends in North Carolina.
Immediately north of the Mason-Dixon line, the Quaker settlement of Chester County, Pennsylvania—one of the early hubs of the Underground Railroad—was considered a "hotbed of abolition". However, not all Quakers were of the same opinion regarding the Underground Railroad: because slavery was still legal in many states, it was therefore ...
Spring Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house located at Snow Camp, Alamance County, North Carolina. The fourth and current meeting house was built in 1907, and is a small rectangular frame one-story gable-front building. It features Gothic Revival style lancet windows and a short, plain rectangular cupola with pyramidal roof ...