Friends at the Spring

I had chatted with several people on the Bush River Facebook site when a enthusiastic contributor sent a link for this book:  

Friends "at the Spring" by Algie Innman Newlin

I notice that the book is available to read on-line on several sites.  But I am reading the copy that she sent.  I wanted to make a few notes as I read, so here goes.

I know a little bit about this area of North Carolina because I have had interest as Richard Moore (my 7-gr-grandfather) settled his family at Eno in Orange County: 

The Moore family stayed in Berks Co PA at Exeter MM until 1755.  The certificates from Exeter were received by Cane Creek MM in Orange Co NC on 6-4, 1757, for Richard Moore, his wife Sarah (Jenkins?), their son John and their daughter Prudence.

 The families that Algie Newlin mentions as first settlers arrived about 1751.  The author also mentions that four or five families came about 1755  and included Valentine Hollingsworth.  By serendipity, I have recently heard from Susan Webber this fall.  Susan and her husband attended at least one of the Bush River Homecomings.  The below is from Susan:

I am also very active in DVHSS (Descendants of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. Society), a family history society. .....   DVHSS gathers every year and next June we will be in Southwest Ohio.  That is where my Hollingsworth name ends when his daughter married a Pearson.   Isaac H. and family had journeyed there from Bush River, having traveled the Great Wagon Road from VA in earlier days.  🙂

Here is a map showing location of Spring Friends Meeting.

And here is the location of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting

It would seem that the Quaker members in this area were all received by Cane Creek.  My Moore family was received by Cane Creek and it would seem that Cane Creek was still where they were officially a part of as when they moved to Wrightsboro about 1767 their certificate that they took with them was from Cane Creek MM.  But I believe it most likely that they were a part of Eno Preparatory Meeting while they lived in Orange County, NC.  

http://marshamoses.blogspot.com/2012/04/eno-cemetery-marker-dedication-just.html

There is a good description of possible roads in this time period on page 8 of the Friends at the Spring book.

Next is a map from page 32 showing Cane Creek as well as Cane Creek MM and Spring Friends meeting.  Cane Creek ends when it flows into Haw River. 

I stopped reading about page 32 as my ancestors and their friends and family had moved farther south by the time of the Regulation.  The Richard Moore family had moved to Wrightsboro. Those who moved  included Richard's son,  Mordecai.  Sarah Moore (daughter of Mordecai) had married George McKinsey and moved to Bush River in South Carolina as had Sarah's aunt, Abigail Moore.  Abigail married Nehemiah Thomas.  It is possible that Sarah Moore did not marry George McKinsey in Orange County.  Instead she met George via her aunt, Abigail after Abigail and Nehemiah moved to Bush River.  I did not find a marriage for Sarah.