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MEMORANDA of the early settlement of Friends in the North-west Territory, and especially of Thomas Beals, who was the first minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends who crossed the Ohio River by Gershom Perdue.
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W. Heiss, ed., 1974
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MEMORANDA
of the early settlement of Friends in the North-west
Territory, and especially of Thomas Beals, who was the
first minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends
who crossed the Ohio River.
by GERSHOM PERDUE
Edited and reprinted by Willard Heiss 1974
4828 North Illinois • Indianapolis, Indiana 46208
PREFACE
Gershom Perdue's "Memoranda" has appeared in varied versionswhere it has suffered errors, omissions and paraphrasing. One
example is the Chronology of the Beals Family by John Beals.
This family history was published at Noblesville, Indiana, about
1912.
While abstracting obituaries from a Quaker periodical, the
Christian Worker, New Vienna, Ohio, the version published
herewith was found.
The "Memoranda" appears in the Christian Worker in three
successive issues- Volume I, No. 2 (Third Month, 1871;) No. 3
(Fourth Month, 1871) and No. 4 (Fifth Month, 1871.) As the
original manuscript is not known to exist this is as near to it
as we may come. It is reprinted with minimal editing.
Perdue is not known to have left any other "historical" accounts.
A small copybook of some religious writings is in the Quaker
Collection of Wilmington College Library, Wilmington, Ohio.
Gershom Perdue was born 12th month 28, 1790, in Bedford county,
Virginia. His parents were Mentor and Jemima Perdue. His father
died when he was seven years of age. In 1813 he removed to near
the present site of Leesburg, Highland county, Ohio, within the
limits of Fairfield Monthly meeting. He served as clerk of this
monthly meeting and for many years as a correspondent. In later
life he stood in the station of an Elder.
In 1818 he married at Miami Meeting to Elizabeth Dukemineer.
Following her death he married at Goshen Meeting to Abigail
Moise. By the first wife he had Hannah. By the second he had
Elizabeth, Esther, Isaac, Jacob, Mentor Pimm, Eliza and Thomas
Kite.
He died at his residence in New Martinsburg, Fayette county,
Ohio, on 18th of Second Month 1885- a member of Hopewell Monthly
Meeting.
-W. H.
Indianapolis
INTRODUCTION
At the request of my dear friends, William Foster, of England,
and Enoch Lewis, of Philadelphia, the following brief and
imperfect memoranda has been prepared. It has cost me much time
and labor to collect and arrange the material for it, and I only
regret that it had not fallen into hands who could have performed
the task better than I have done. It is now published for the
first time, in the hope that it may prove interesting and
instructive, at least to the decendants of the worthy pioneers
whose names are mentioned in it. Both the dear friends at whose
request it was prepared had gone to their rest before it was
completed. It is written in the form of a letter to Wm. Foster.
New Martinsburg, Fayette Co, O
Third Month 6th, 1871
William Foster:
My beloved Friend,
The first item of family record I have been able to find stated
that Thomas Beals, the subject of this memoir, was born in
Chester county, Pennsylvania, in the Third Month, 1719, son of
John and Sarah Beals -formerly Sarah Bowater, of the family of
Friends of that name in England. Thomas Beals had two brothers,
John and Bowater, and four sisters. Prudence married Richard
Williams; Sarah married John Mills; Mary married Thomas Hunt
(Mary Beals was married to William Baldwin after the death of
Thomas Hunt;) Phebe married Robert Sumner; John Beals, jr,
married Esther Hunt; Bowater Beals married Ann Cook, sister to
Isaac Cook (husband to Charity Cook;) Thomas Beals married Sarah
Ankrum.
From that worthy man, John Beals, descended a very large number,
say some thousands of the.present members of the now widely
extended yearly meetings of Indiana, Western, and Iowa, and in
the western limits of Ohio Yearly Meeting, and some yet remaining
in North Carolina and Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. On many of
those descendants precious gifts in the ministry have been
conferred. Like gifts of living ministry have been conferred on
several directly connected by marriage in the family. Among
those in direct descent wereThomas Beals
Ruth Hockett
Hannah Baldwin
Benajah Hiatt
Jesse Hockett
Bowater Beals
Hannah Cloud
Elizabeth Bond
John Bond
- all deceased
Sarah Mills
Nathan Hunt
Peter Dix
Jesse Williams
Assenath Clark
Eleazar Beals
Naomy Coffin
- yet living
Miriam Mendenhall
Asaph Hiatt
Esther Carson
Daniel Williams
Ruth Haisely
Levi Jessop
Connected by marriage
William Hunt
Joseph Cloud
Priscilla Hunt
Dougan Clark
Jacob Jackson
- deceased
Calvin Wasson
Sarah M. Hiatt
Benjamin Fulghum
James Owen
- yet living, and it is presumed several
others, both deceased and living, unknown to the writer.
From Chester county, as it then was, John Beals moved with his
family to Monocacy, Carrol's Mannor, Maryland. At what time or
how long they stayed at this place I have no account; but while
here his son Thomas married. From Monocacy they moved to
Opequon, now Hopewell, near Winchester, Virginia. I find it
stated that John Beals died in the year 1745, three years before
the family moved to North Carolina, but did not say where he
died. I presume it was in Virginia.
Thomas Beals moved with his family to North Carolina in the year
1748, being then twenty-nine years old, and resided some time at
Cane Creek; then, with his family, accompanied by two young men,
whose names I do not recollect, removed to New Garden, now
Guilford county, North Carolina, where no other white persons
then lived. Here they were subjected to much privation and
suffering for the necessaries of life.
In a very short time we find Richard Williams, John Mills, John
Beals, Bowater Beals, Thomas Hunt, and Robert Sumner settled near
them. In the year 1753, Thomas Beals being then about
thirty-four years of age, came forth in the ministry. Near which
time William Hunt, a youth of about twenty years of age, then a
largely gifted minister, who probably lived with his elder
brother, Thomas, married Sarah, daughter of John Mills,
granddaughter of John Beals, sen, and mother of Nathan Hunt.
Here I leave this very interesting little colony, with others,
building up New Garden Monthly Meeting, from which many other
meetings soon sprang up, and proceed with the narrative of Thomas
Beals.
How long he lived at New Garden I have no account, but presume it
was several years. The next move he made was to Westfield, Surry
county, North Carolina, of which I have no date. Here he also
built up a large meeting. At the two latter places he must have
lived nearly thirty years, during which time he paid several
extensive religious visits to the Indian natives.
In the year 1775, twenty years before Wayne's treaty with the
Indians at Greenville, Thomas Beals, accompanied by his nephew,
Bowater Sumner, William Hiatt, and David Ballard, started to pay
a religious visit to the Shawnee and Delaware tribes of Indians
and some others, and after passing a fort not far from Clinch
mountain, in Virginia or Kentucky, they were arrested and carried
back to the fort to be tried for their lives, on charge of being
confederate with the hostile Indians. The officers understanding
that one of them was a preacher, required a sermon before they
went into trial. Thomas Beals felt it right to hold a meeting
with the soldiers, which proved to be a highly favored season.
A young man then in the fort was convinced, and some time after
he moved among Friends and became a member, and in very advanced
age bore public testimony to the truth of the principles of which
he was convinced in the fort. After this precious meeting was
over, the Friends were kindly entertained and set at full liberty
to proceed on their journey. They crossed the Ohio River at some
point below Pittsburg, into what is now the State of Ohio, and
eastern limits of Indiana Yearly Meeting, and held many meetings
with the Indians to satisfaction, and returned home with much
peace of mind; and Thomas Beals told his friends that he saw,
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with his spiritual eye, the seeds of Friends scattered all over
that good land, and that one day there would be the greatest
gathering of Friends there that was in the world; and that his
faith was strong that he would live to see Friends settled north
of the Ohio river.
In the year 1777, Thomas Beals, accompanied by William Robinson,
having Isaac Ottoman for interpreter, started to pay a religious
visit to the Six Nations and some other tribes of Indians, and
proceeded as far as Sewicly, a small meeting of Friends in the
western part of Pennsylvania, where they were taken up and
carried to Hannalstown, not far from Fort Pitt, now Pittsburg,
and were detained some time and then sent home. But still having
a concern on his mind for them, made another trial to reach them;
but was again taken up and imprisoned some time, under guard, in
a cold, open barn. When he was let out of confinement he was
permitted by the Coroner, who had charge of him, to hold a
meeting with the soldiers, but was not permitted to go any
further, but had to return home. At what date this last visit
occurred, or who accompanied him, I am not informed.
In the year 1781, Thomas Beals moved from Westfield to Blue
Stone, Gyles county, Virginia, where they lived but a few years.
While here, their sufferings were very great in many ways, not
only for the necessaries of life, but their son-in-law, James
Horton, was taken prisoner by the Indians, and, from the most
reliable information that could be obtained, was taken to Old
Chillicothe, now Frankfort, Ohio, and there put to death. This
move does not appear to have been approved of by his friends, for
Nathan Hunt says they sent a committee to move him back to
Westfield, North Carolina. The little meeting of twenty or
thirty families was entirely broken up at Blue Stone.
In the year 1785 he moved to Lost Creek, in Tennessee, and in the
year 1793 removed to Greyson county, Virginia, at which several
places Nathan Hunt states that Thomas Beals set up meetings, and
says that he was very zealous for the support of the testimonies
of the Society of Friends. A very plain man, and was, no doubt,
an instrument in the hand of the Lord in gathering many to
righteousness.
In the year 1795 George Harlen, and Margery his wife, and their
sons Aaron, Samuel, and Moses, members of the Society of Friends,
moved from Kentucky and settled on the Little Miami at Deerfield,
four miles below the present town of Morrow.
In the Eighth Month, 1796, Jesse Baldwin and family, members of
the Society of Friends from Westfield, North Carolina, and
Phineas Hunt and his family, all members of the Society except
himself, at that time, (he soon after became a member,) moved to
the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. Here I will note that Mary
Hunt, daughter of Phineas and Elizabeth Hunt, was born on the
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18th of Tenth Month, 1796, four miles from Point Pleasant, on the
Virginia shore.
In the Second Month, 1797, Jesse Baldwin and Phineas Hunt crossed
the Ohio River with their families, and settled opposite Green
Bottom, near to each other. Two families of Friends now settled
together, in the North-Western Territory, with one before
mentioned, quite remote from them.
On the 8th day of Fifth Month, the same year, 1797, John Winder,
Margaret his wife, and three single children (Abner, Mercy, and
Elizabeth,) and son James and his wife, Deborah Winder, and
sons-in-law, Isaac Warner and wife, Mary, and their daughter,
Lydia, and William Chandler and his wife, Hannah, and Levi
Warner, (afterward son-in-law to John Winder,) from Westland,
Pennsylvania, settled at High Bank, on the east side of the
Scioto River, near the end of the railroad bridge, four miles
below where Chillicothe now is.
In the latter part of this year, 1797, Jesse Baldwin, after
raising some corn opposite Green Bottom, moved some eighteen
miles down the Ohio, and settled in what is called Quaker Bottom,
in Lawrence county, Ohio, opposite the mouth of Guyandot River,
and present town of that name. Here he was very soon joined by
Nathaniel Pope, from Grayson county, Virginia, whose wife,
Martha, was a member, and himself some time after. I note this
place of more than usual interest, it being the spot where
Friends in the North-Western Territory first sat down to hold a
meeting for Divine worship, which will be noticed at proper date.
I will here, in order of time, say that John Warner, son of Isaac
and Mary Warner, was born at High Bank, Ross county, Ohio, on the
12th day of Seventh Month, 1798. The first birth of a member of
the Society of Friends north-west of the Ohio River; and that on
the 11th of the Eleventh Month, the same year, 1798, Rebecca
Chandler, daughter of William and Hannah Chandler, was born at or
near the same place, both grandchildren of John and Margaret
Winder. I presume they are both living - the latter the wife of
Alexander Bell, of Iowa, and an Elder in the Church.
In the year above stated, 1798, Samuel Schooley, Cicily, his
wife, with some children; Henry Lewis and children, (John, David,
and Catherine,) and William Lewis and his wife, Sarah; Evan Evans
and wife, Patience, and their children; George Sinclair and
family -all from Hopewell, Southland, and that part of Virginia settled at High Bank.
In the same year Hugh Moffit, his wife, Hannah, and children
(Jeremiah, Charles, Joseph, John, Joshua, and several of their
wives and some sisters;) William Redish and family, and William
Picket, all from North Carolina, settled at Salt Creek, now
Richmond, Ross county, Ohio.
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In the year 1799 Thomas Beals, who had visited this country
twenty-four years before, now moved to Quaker Bottom with his
family, and sons, John and Daniel, and their families, and
grandson, Able Thornberry; Obediah Overman, Abigail, his wife,
and family - all from Grayson county, Virginia. On their arrival
they opened a meeting for worship in the dwelling of Jesse
Baldwin, which was regularly held during their residence at that
place, which they unitedly believed was favored with the Master's
presence. The nearest meeting to them was Westland,
Pennsylvania. Sometime in this year, 1799, Taylor Webster and
Hannah, his wife, and children, John and Susana, from Red Stone,
Pennsylvania, settled at Grassy Prairie, five miles north-east
from Chillicothe. Meetings after this were occasionally held at
Hugh Moffit's, Taylor Webster's, and High Bank.
On the 20th of the Eleventh Month, the same year, 1799, Abijah
Oneal, Samuel Kelly, and I think David Pugh, at the same time,
from Bush River, South Carolina, settled at Waynesville.
On the 25th of Fourth Month, 1800, David Faulkner and Samuel
Painter and their families, and William Walker and wife, Martha,
from Hopewell, Virginia, settled at Waynesville, leaving their
certificates at Westland, Pennsylvania, on their way. Near the
same time Amaziah Beeson, from New Hope, Tennessee, and Enos
Haines, from Crooked Run, Virginia, with their families, settled
at Waynesville.
In the summer of this year, 1800, Joseph Cloud, from North
Carolina, and Jacob Jackson, from Tennessee, ministers, paid a
visit to Ohio, held their first meetings at George Harlan's,
Deerfield; then proceeded to Waynesville and held one or two
meetings there, and, lastly, one at High Bank. This meeting and
that at Deerfield were those alluded to in the memorial of Joseph
Cloud on their way to and from Waynesville.
On the 25th of Third Month, 1801, Rollin Richards, a minister,
Ezekiel Cleaver, David Holloway, and Levi Lukins, at or near the
same time, with their families, from Hopewell and Southland,
Virginia, settled at Waynesville. They also left their
certificates at Westland, Pennsylvania, and requested the
privilege of holding a meeting for worship in Waynesville, which
was not granted.
In the spring of the year 1801, Thomas Beals, Jesse Baldwin, John
Beals, and Daniel Beals moved from Quaker Bottom, and they, with
Enoch Cox and their families, settled on Salt Creek, near the
present town of Adelphia. At this place, Grassy Prairie, High
Bank, and Hugh Moffit's, meetings were held by Friends of the
several settlements coming together at such places as
circumstances most favored.
On the 26th of Fourth Month, the same year, 1801, Friends in and
near Waynesville, consisting of twenty-four parents and
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fifty-seven children, United in holding a meeting for worship,
which was attended that day by Roland Richards, Lydia Richards,
Abijah Oneal, Anna Oneal, Ezekiel Cleaver, Abigail Cleaver, David
Holloway, Hannah Holloway, David Faulkner, Judith Faulkner, David
Pugh, Rachel Pugh, James Mills, Lydia Mills, Samuel Kelly, Hannah
Kelly, William Walker, Martha Walker, David Painter, Martha
Painter, Levi Lukins, Anna Lukins, and others, in Ezekiel
Cleaver's house, in Waynesville, and continued to be held on each
First-day.
On the 29th of Eighth Month, 1801, Thomas Beals died, and was
buried on the 31st of the same month, near Richmond, Ross county,
in a coffin of regular shape hewed out of a solid white-walnut
tree by his ever faithful friend, Jesse Baldwin, assisted by
Enoch Cox and others. The coffin was covered with a slab from
the same tree, which tree was selected for the purpose by the
deceased while living. The coffin was not hollowed by burning,
as stated by Mary Howett, of England, in her book to her cousins
in Ohio.
Around the grave of that truly devoted man, with that of William
Pickett, Hugh Moffit, Sarah Hiatt, and others, the meeting for
Sufferings of Indiana Yearly Meeting, very recently caused a
permanent stone wall to be built, where no friends reside. A
meeting-house was some time after built on the land, then
belonging to the Moffit family, and a meeting held there for some
time. The burying ground at this place, and that near it, first
used, were donated by the latter owner to the writer, and, at his
request, the title was made to trustees appointed by the meeting
for Sufferings of Indiana Yearly Meeting, as property of said
Yearly Meeting. They are now both properly inclosed.
About the year 1802, John Winder, with most of his children and
their families, moved west of the Scioto, and settled on Dry Run,
some six miles above Chillicothe, where they, with some friendly
neighbors, (several of whom afterward joined in religious
fellowship with Friends) opened a meeting for worship, which in
due time was noticed on record, and continued until the year
1828. To this meeting Taylor Webster and John Trimble and their
families belonged in their latter time.
In the spring of 1802 James Hayworth and family, members of
Society, Nathaniel Pope and John Walter - the wives of the two
latter only were then members - settled on Lee's Creek, in and
near where the present town of Leesburg now stands, in Highland
county, Ohio, where no white person before lived.
In the fall of the same year, 1802, Sarah Beals, widow of Thomas
Beals, and her sons, John and Daniel Beals, and their families,
moved from Adelphia, and Phineas Hunt and family from Raccoon
Falls, and all settled at Lee's Creek and Harden's Creek, near
each other. I will here state that before this date Jacob Smith,
Nathaniel Pope, and Hannah Wright lived some time at the Falls of
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Paint, in Ross county, from which place Hannah Wright, with her
family, moved to Harden's Creek in this year, 1802. Jacob Smith
and family moved to the vicinity of Waynesville, (date unknown.)
In the summer of this year a committee from Westland,
Pennsylvania, visited Friends at Waynesville, approved of the
meeting, and a further privilege was granted them of holding a
week-day meeting also, and to be called Miami Meeting.
In the spring of 1803, Jesse Baldwin, Evan Evans, John Bowater
Beals, John Crew, with their families, moved to Lee's and
Harden's Creeks.
In the summer of 1803 a committee from Red Stone Quarterly
Meeting, Pennsylvania, visited Miami Meeting on a request for its
establishment and the further privilege of holding a Preparative
and Monthly Meeting. Our beloved friend Ann Taylor, lately
deceased, was one of said committee, who, on her way home, held a
meeting for worship at the dwelling of James Hayworth, near the
east end of Leesburg - the first meeting of Friends held in those
parts.
In the fall of this year William Lupton and Bathsheba his wife,
and family, their son Solomon Lupton and wife Rachel, from
Hopewell, Virginia, settled at Lee's Creek. On their arrival
Bathsheba Lupton became concerned to encourage Friends to collect
together for the purpose of holding a meeting for worship, in
which our very aged friend, Sarah Beals, heartily united. A
meeting was opened the next First-day and continued to be held at
William Lupton's, where James Huff's brick house now stands, and
at John Beals, where Daniel Burges's stone house now stands, or
very near it, and continued to be held on First-day until a
meeting-house was built at Fairfield.
On the 12th and 13th of Tenth Month this year, 1803, Miami
Preparative and Monthly Meetings were opened, its limits
extending east to Hockhocking River, south to the Ohio River, and
to the north and west no bounds.
In the Fifth Month, 1804, Miami Monthly Meeting authorized
Friends of Lee's Creek and Harden's Creek to hold their meetings
twice a week, eastwardly from Waynesville thirty-three miles. At
this place, by consent of Miami Monthly Meeting, Enos Baldwin,
son of Jesse and Sarah Baldwin, and Sarah Hunt, daughter of
Phineas and Elizabeth Hunt, were married, in the Eleventh Month,
1804, on the First day of the week, in a meeting held that day in
the dwelling of William Lupton. These were children of the two
first families of Friends that settled near each other and the
first that were married in the Order of Friends in the limits of
Indiana Yearly Meeting.
In Fifth Month, 1805, the Monthly Meeting privileged Friends of
Todd's Fork, now Center, to hold meetings twice a week, twelve
miles eastwardly from Waynesville.
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The same month, if I am correct in time, Friends of West Branch
were granted privilege of holding meetings twice a week,
north-west thirty-four miles from Waynesville.
In Seventh Month, the same year, a meeting was granted to Friends
of Elk, twenty-five miles west of Waynesville.
In Tenth Month, same year, a meeting was granted at Caesar's
Creek, six miles north-east.
In Fourth Month, 1806, a meeting was granted at Turtle Creek, six
miles south-west.
In Seventh Month, same year, a meeting was granted at Clear
Creek, Highland county, south-east thirty-four miles.
In Ninth Month, same year, a meeting was granted at Fall Creek,
in same county, south-east forty miles from Waynesville.
In Tenth Month, same year, a meeting was granted at Ludlow's
Creek, now Union, forty miles north-west.
In Twelfth Month, the same year, 1806, Red Stone Quarterly
Meeting established Elk preparative and meeting for worship, West
Branch monthly preparative and meeting for worship, Center
Monthly Meeting alternately at Caesar's Creek, and a preparative
and meeting for worship at each place.
In Eighth Month, 1807, a meeting was granted at Hopewell, twelve
miles south of Waynesville.
In Ninth Month, same year, 1807, Red Stone Quarterly Meeting
established Fairfield Monthly Meeting alternately, at Clear
Creek, a preparative, and meeting for worship at Fairfield; Clear
Creek preparative, alternately at Fall Creek, and a meeting for
worship at each of those places.
In Tenth Month, same year, 1807, Miami Monthly Meeting granted a
meeting at Mad River, now Goshen, north-east fifty-five miles
from Waynesville, and in Tenth Month, 1808, granted a meeting at
Darby Creek, some five miles north-east from Goshen.
In Tenth Month, 1808, Baltimore Yearly Meeting established Miami
Quarterly Meeting in Waynesville.
In the year 1811 Baltimore Yearly Meeting established West Branch
Quarterly Meeting, which was held,part of the time at White
Water, now Richmond, Indiana.
In the year 1812, the writer of the foregoing attended Baltimore
Yearly Meeting, when a committee reported that West Branch
Quarterly Meeting had been opened according to direction, but no
report from said meeting was received. At that time Ohio Yearly
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Meeting was set off, embracing the meetings belonging to Red
Stone Quarterly Meeting, Pennsylvania; all the meetings in the
State of Ohio, and the only one then in Indiana, White Water.
The Yearly Meeting of Ohio was opened and held at Short Creek,
near Mt. Pleasant, in the Eighth Month, 1813.
I will here state that a few weeks before the Yearly Meeting, and
shortly before the writer of this reached the place, Sarah Beals,
the widow of Thomas Beals, deceased, on the 7th of the Seventh
Month 1813, died, aged 89 years, and was buried at Fairfield.
One circumstance, rather remarkable, I will relate here: After
the lapse of many years, and various removals of the parties,
Beverly Milner, the young man that was convinced in the Fort,
settled near the last residence of Sarah Beals, and, without
doubt, attended her interment; and, I may further add to the
former statement, that, after he became too feeble to attend
meeting, he was very much engaged in exhortation, prayer and
praise, often alluding to the ministry of that heavenly man by
which he was convinced; that it was "no cunningly devised fable,"
but living and substantial truth. He died in great peace of
mind, nearly 87 years of age, in 1843, and was buried at the same
place - Fairfield.
In the year 1814 Ohio Yearly Meeting established Fairfield
Quarterly Meeting, which was opened in Second Month, 1815.
Indiana Yearly Meeting was first held in the fall of 1821.
Western Yearly Meeting was first held in the Ninth Month, 1859.
Iowa Yearly Meeting was to be held in the fall of this year 1863.
I have now brought the foregoing account to a close, which has
rested on my mind for many years, and I think it may be relied on
as being very nearly correct, as much so as any well could be of
so long a series of years. I have been nearly fifty years
obtaining the items of which the account is composed. I have had
a large acquaintance from early life with very many of the
nearest relations of Thomas Beals, and have seen all the
ministers, or nearly so, mentioned in this memoranda that lived
in my day. I lived neighbor to several of those who settled at
Quaker Bottom and at High Bank. Was some acquainted with George
Harlen; was much acquainted at Waynesville with the first
settlers there; had some acquaintance with Joseph Mills, brother
to William Hunt's wife, and a very long acquaintance with his
widow, Hannah Mills, who not long since deceased, at the advanced
age of ninety-four years, from whom I received much reliable
information. I could state many other opportunities I have had
of obtaining correct information, but do not wish to enlarge.
I now feel satisfied that I have nearly discharged a little
legacy of good-will to the many descendants of John Beals in
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general, as well as those descended from his son, Thomas Beals;
and to the Society of Friends at large a people whom I have
dearly loved from my youth to the present day I can confidingly
leave this as a true and solid foundation on which a history of
the Society in a future day may be based.
I wish to say here that I have not designed to cover any part of
the territory of Ohio Yearly Meeting. If any settlements of
Friends were made, or any meetings held there, before my dates, I
hope Friends there will hold me excused. I do not recollect the
date of dear David Graves's meeting at Jehu Colson's, nor at this
moment that of meetings held in the tent of our beloved friends
Jonathan and Ann Taylor - the latter very lately deceased - of
that Yearly Meeting, but think they were both since 1799; at
least since 1775, the date of Thomas Beals's first visit to Ohio.
I will, before I close, give a very brief statement of the last
residence of the first Friends that crossed the Ohio River, in
addition to those already mentioned. I will say first that I do
not know where William Hiatt died - one of the first - but I
suppose either in Virginia or North Carolina.
Bowater Sumner, an Elder, a nephew to Thomas Beals, died at Fall
Creek, Ohio.
David Ballard, the youngest of the four first, died near
Wilmington, Clinton county, Ohio, then a minister very advanced
in age.
I do not know where William Robinson died, but presume it was in
Grayson county, Virginia, or North Carolina.
George Harlin and wife died near Waynesville, both respectable
members of the Society, but of their children none remained
members.
Jesse Baldwin, after serving his friends in various ways, and the
Society in many places, spending a portion of his time in
instructing the Indians of Wapakonetta, and faithfully bearing
his testimony for the doctrine of Christianity in time of sore
conflict in the Society of Friends, his useful life closed in
much peace, in the limits of Goshen Monthly Meeting, Logan
county, Ohio, in advanced age.
Phineas Hunt, in latter life, withdrew for a time from Friends,
but was in a very remarkable manner favored to see his error, and
condemned, in all its parts, that spirit that caused the
separation. It was the privilege of the writer to spend a few
minutes with him and his wife in their very advanced age, not
long before his close. It was among the sweet moments of my
life. His countenance shone with brightness while he declared
the love and mercy of the Savior and his confidence in him. I
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thought they were both very near the kingdom, though he was not a
member.
Daniel Beals died in Randolph county, Indiana; John Beals died in
Hamilton county, Indiana.
Enoch Cox died in Indiana.
Nathaniel Pope died at Clear Creek, Highland county, Ohio.
Obediah Overman died at Fall Creek, in said county, in 1841, aged
ninety-three years.
Abigail Overman died at the same place, in 1834, aged eighty-five
years.
Evan Evans died at Fairfield, same county, in 1847, aged near
ninety-five years.
Hannah Wright died at Harden's Creek, same county, in 1855, aged
ninety-five years.
John Winder died in 1819, aged eighty-two years, at Dry Run, near
Chillicothe, Ohio.
William Lupton and John Crew died a few years after their arrival
in Ohio.
Bathsheba Lupton died at Fairfield, in 1847, in the
eighty-seventh year of her age.
Abijah O'Neal died in Clinton county, somewhat advanced in age,
and was brought home and buried in Waynesville, near his
residence.
Samuel Kelly died near Waynesville, in a very advanced age.
David Pugh died in Cincinnati, an old man.
Joseph Cloud died near Waynesville in advanced age.
Jacob Jackson died at Martinsville, Clinton county, ninety-six
years of age.
Rolen Richards died in Cincinnati, in a very advanced age.
Levi Lukens died in the vicinity of Waynesville, about the year
1860, I believe over ninety years old.
David Painter, David Faulkner, and their wives, died in the
limits of Center Monthly Meeting, Ohio.
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William Walker and wife died within the limits of Springfield
Monthly Meeting, in the same county, all in good old age.
Samuel Scooley died at Fairfield, Ohio, quite old.
Several individuals whose names are entered as early settlers,
and their deaths noticed, left society in the time of separation,
but as they have passed away, I have not thought best to name
them in this memoranda, but sincerely hoping they were accepted
at last.
I will now close this account in saying that I have no selfish
view connected with it, but can truly say I feel thankful to our
Father in heaven, that he has continued to preserve this people
through the various trials to which they have been subjected, and
blessed them with great increase in this land, not only in
number, but with a growth in the life and power of true religion
and great increase of living ministry, and that so very large a
number of descendants of the subjects of the foregoing narrative
are at this day faithful friends and laborors for the cause of
Christ, our holy Redeemer.
GERSHOM PERDUE
Third month 3, 1863
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INDEX BY FAMILY NAME
Ankrum
Sarah . . .
Baldwin
Enos . . . .
Hannah . . .
Jesse . . .
Sarah . . .
William . .
Ballard
David . . .
Beals
Bowater . .
Daniel . . .
Eleazar . .
John . . . .
John Bowater
Mary . . . .
Phebe . . .
Prudence . .
Sarah . . .
Thomas . . .
William . .
Beeson
Amaziah . .
Bell
Alexander .
Bond
Elizabeth .
John . . . .
Bowater
Sarah . . .
Burges
Daniel . . .
Carson
Esther . . .
Chandler
Hannah . . .
Rebecca . .
William . .
Clark
Assenath . .
Dougan . . .
Cleaver
Abigail . .
Ezekiel . .
Cloud
Hannah . . .
Joseph . . .
Coffin
Naomy . . .
Colson
Jehu . . . .
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Cox
Crew
Dix
Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Charity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Isaac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Enoch
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Peter . .
Dukemineer
Elizabeth
Evans
Evan . . .
Patience .
Faulkner
David . .
Judith . .
Foster
William .
Fulghum
Benjamin .
Graves
David . .
Haines
Enos . . .
Haisely
Ruth . . .
Harlan
George . .
Harlen
Aaron . .
George . .
Margery .
Moses . .
Samuel . .
Harlin
George . .
Hayworth
James . .
Hiatt
Asaph . .
Benajah .
Sarah . .
William .
Hockett
Jesse . .
Ruth . . .
Holloway
David . .
Hannah . .
Horton
James . .
Howett
Mary . . .
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Esther . .
Mary . . .
Nathan . .
Phineas .
Priscilla
Sarah . .
Thomas . .
William .
Jackson
Jacob . .
Jessop
Levi . . .
Kelly
Hannah . .
Samuel . .
Lewis
Catherine
David . .
Enoch . .
Henry . .
John . . .
Sarah . .
William .
Lukens
Levi . . .
Lukins
Anna . . .
Levi . . .
Lupton
Bathsheba
Rachel . .
Solomon .
William .
Mendenhall
Miriam . .
Mills
Hannah . .
James . .
John . . .
Joseph . .
Lydia . .
Sarah . .
Milner
Beverly .
Moffit
Charles .
Hannah . .
Hugh . . .
Jeremiah .
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Ottoman
Isaac . . .
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Abigail . .
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Owen
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Painter
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Martha . . .
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Perdue
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Esther . . .
Gershom . .
Hannah . . .
Isaac . . .
Jacob . . .
Jemima . . .
Mentor . . .
Mentor Pimm
Thomas Kite
Picket
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Pope
Martha . . .
Nathan . . .
Nathaniel .
Pugh
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Rachel . . .
Redish
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Richards
Lydia . . .
Roland . . .
Rolen . . .
Rollin . . .
Robinson
William . .
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H:\TCH\QUAKER\Gershom Perdue Memo on Beals & early Friends INDEX.wpd
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of the early settlement of Friends in the North-west
Territory, and especially of Thomas Beals, who was the
first minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends
who crossed the Ohio River.
by GERSHOM PERDUE
Edited and reprinted by Willard Heiss 1974
4828 North Illinois • Indianapolis, Indiana 46208
PREFACE
Gershom Perdue's "Memoranda" has appeared in varied versionswhere it has suffered errors, omissions and paraphrasing. One
example is the Chronology of the Beals Family by John Beals.
This family history was published at Noblesville, Indiana, about
1912.
While abstracting obituaries from a Quaker periodical, the
Christian Worker, New Vienna, Ohio, the version published
herewith was found.
The "Memoranda" appears in the Christian Worker in three
successive issues- Volume I, No. 2 (Third Month, 1871;) No. 3
(Fourth Month, 1871) and No. 4 (Fifth Month, 1871.) As the
original manuscript is not known to exist this is as near to it
as we may come. It is reprinted with minimal editing.
Perdue is not known to have left any other "historical" accounts.
A small copybook of some religious writings is in the Quaker
Collection of Wilmington College Library, Wilmington, Ohio.
Gershom Perdue was born 12th month 28, 1790, in Bedford county,
Virginia. His parents were Mentor and Jemima Perdue. His father
died when he was seven years of age. In 1813 he removed to near
the present site of Leesburg, Highland county, Ohio, within the
limits of Fairfield Monthly meeting. He served as clerk of this
monthly meeting and for many years as a correspondent. In later
life he stood in the station of an Elder.
In 1818 he married at Miami Meeting to Elizabeth Dukemineer.
Following her death he married at Goshen Meeting to Abigail
Moise. By the first wife he had Hannah. By the second he had
Elizabeth, Esther, Isaac, Jacob, Mentor Pimm, Eliza and Thomas
Kite.
He died at his residence in New Martinsburg, Fayette county,
Ohio, on 18th of Second Month 1885- a member of Hopewell Monthly
Meeting.
-W. H.
Indianapolis
INTRODUCTION
At the request of my dear friends, William Foster, of England,
and Enoch Lewis, of Philadelphia, the following brief and
imperfect memoranda has been prepared. It has cost me much time
and labor to collect and arrange the material for it, and I only
regret that it had not fallen into hands who could have performed
the task better than I have done. It is now published for the
first time, in the hope that it may prove interesting and
instructive, at least to the decendants of the worthy pioneers
whose names are mentioned in it. Both the dear friends at whose
request it was prepared had gone to their rest before it was
completed. It is written in the form of a letter to Wm. Foster.
New Martinsburg, Fayette Co, O
Third Month 6th, 1871
William Foster:
My beloved Friend,
The first item of family record I have been able to find stated
that Thomas Beals, the subject of this memoir, was born in
Chester county, Pennsylvania, in the Third Month, 1719, son of
John and Sarah Beals -formerly Sarah Bowater, of the family of
Friends of that name in England. Thomas Beals had two brothers,
John and Bowater, and four sisters. Prudence married Richard
Williams; Sarah married John Mills; Mary married Thomas Hunt
(Mary Beals was married to William Baldwin after the death of
Thomas Hunt;) Phebe married Robert Sumner; John Beals, jr,
married Esther Hunt; Bowater Beals married Ann Cook, sister to
Isaac Cook (husband to Charity Cook;) Thomas Beals married Sarah
Ankrum.
From that worthy man, John Beals, descended a very large number,
say some thousands of the.present members of the now widely
extended yearly meetings of Indiana, Western, and Iowa, and in
the western limits of Ohio Yearly Meeting, and some yet remaining
in North Carolina and Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. On many of
those descendants precious gifts in the ministry have been
conferred. Like gifts of living ministry have been conferred on
several directly connected by marriage in the family. Among
those in direct descent wereThomas Beals
Ruth Hockett
Hannah Baldwin
Benajah Hiatt
Jesse Hockett
Bowater Beals
Hannah Cloud
Elizabeth Bond
John Bond
- all deceased
Sarah Mills
Nathan Hunt
Peter Dix
Jesse Williams
Assenath Clark
Eleazar Beals
Naomy Coffin
- yet living
Miriam Mendenhall
Asaph Hiatt
Esther Carson
Daniel Williams
Ruth Haisely
Levi Jessop
Connected by marriage
William Hunt
Joseph Cloud
Priscilla Hunt
Dougan Clark
Jacob Jackson
- deceased
Calvin Wasson
Sarah M. Hiatt
Benjamin Fulghum
James Owen
- yet living, and it is presumed several
others, both deceased and living, unknown to the writer.
From Chester county, as it then was, John Beals moved with his
family to Monocacy, Carrol's Mannor, Maryland. At what time or
how long they stayed at this place I have no account; but while
here his son Thomas married. From Monocacy they moved to
Opequon, now Hopewell, near Winchester, Virginia. I find it
stated that John Beals died in the year 1745, three years before
the family moved to North Carolina, but did not say where he
died. I presume it was in Virginia.
Thomas Beals moved with his family to North Carolina in the year
1748, being then twenty-nine years old, and resided some time at
Cane Creek; then, with his family, accompanied by two young men,
whose names I do not recollect, removed to New Garden, now
Guilford county, North Carolina, where no other white persons
then lived. Here they were subjected to much privation and
suffering for the necessaries of life.
In a very short time we find Richard Williams, John Mills, John
Beals, Bowater Beals, Thomas Hunt, and Robert Sumner settled near
them. In the year 1753, Thomas Beals being then about
thirty-four years of age, came forth in the ministry. Near which
time William Hunt, a youth of about twenty years of age, then a
largely gifted minister, who probably lived with his elder
brother, Thomas, married Sarah, daughter of John Mills,
granddaughter of John Beals, sen, and mother of Nathan Hunt.
Here I leave this very interesting little colony, with others,
building up New Garden Monthly Meeting, from which many other
meetings soon sprang up, and proceed with the narrative of Thomas
Beals.
How long he lived at New Garden I have no account, but presume it
was several years. The next move he made was to Westfield, Surry
county, North Carolina, of which I have no date. Here he also
built up a large meeting. At the two latter places he must have
lived nearly thirty years, during which time he paid several
extensive religious visits to the Indian natives.
In the year 1775, twenty years before Wayne's treaty with the
Indians at Greenville, Thomas Beals, accompanied by his nephew,
Bowater Sumner, William Hiatt, and David Ballard, started to pay
a religious visit to the Shawnee and Delaware tribes of Indians
and some others, and after passing a fort not far from Clinch
mountain, in Virginia or Kentucky, they were arrested and carried
back to the fort to be tried for their lives, on charge of being
confederate with the hostile Indians. The officers understanding
that one of them was a preacher, required a sermon before they
went into trial. Thomas Beals felt it right to hold a meeting
with the soldiers, which proved to be a highly favored season.
A young man then in the fort was convinced, and some time after
he moved among Friends and became a member, and in very advanced
age bore public testimony to the truth of the principles of which
he was convinced in the fort. After this precious meeting was
over, the Friends were kindly entertained and set at full liberty
to proceed on their journey. They crossed the Ohio River at some
point below Pittsburg, into what is now the State of Ohio, and
eastern limits of Indiana Yearly Meeting, and held many meetings
with the Indians to satisfaction, and returned home with much
peace of mind; and Thomas Beals told his friends that he saw,
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with his spiritual eye, the seeds of Friends scattered all over
that good land, and that one day there would be the greatest
gathering of Friends there that was in the world; and that his
faith was strong that he would live to see Friends settled north
of the Ohio river.
In the year 1777, Thomas Beals, accompanied by William Robinson,
having Isaac Ottoman for interpreter, started to pay a religious
visit to the Six Nations and some other tribes of Indians, and
proceeded as far as Sewicly, a small meeting of Friends in the
western part of Pennsylvania, where they were taken up and
carried to Hannalstown, not far from Fort Pitt, now Pittsburg,
and were detained some time and then sent home. But still having
a concern on his mind for them, made another trial to reach them;
but was again taken up and imprisoned some time, under guard, in
a cold, open barn. When he was let out of confinement he was
permitted by the Coroner, who had charge of him, to hold a
meeting with the soldiers, but was not permitted to go any
further, but had to return home. At what date this last visit
occurred, or who accompanied him, I am not informed.
In the year 1781, Thomas Beals moved from Westfield to Blue
Stone, Gyles county, Virginia, where they lived but a few years.
While here, their sufferings were very great in many ways, not
only for the necessaries of life, but their son-in-law, James
Horton, was taken prisoner by the Indians, and, from the most
reliable information that could be obtained, was taken to Old
Chillicothe, now Frankfort, Ohio, and there put to death. This
move does not appear to have been approved of by his friends, for
Nathan Hunt says they sent a committee to move him back to
Westfield, North Carolina. The little meeting of twenty or
thirty families was entirely broken up at Blue Stone.
In the year 1785 he moved to Lost Creek, in Tennessee, and in the
year 1793 removed to Greyson county, Virginia, at which several
places Nathan Hunt states that Thomas Beals set up meetings, and
says that he was very zealous for the support of the testimonies
of the Society of Friends. A very plain man, and was, no doubt,
an instrument in the hand of the Lord in gathering many to
righteousness.
In the year 1795 George Harlen, and Margery his wife, and their
sons Aaron, Samuel, and Moses, members of the Society of Friends,
moved from Kentucky and settled on the Little Miami at Deerfield,
four miles below the present town of Morrow.
In the Eighth Month, 1796, Jesse Baldwin and family, members of
the Society of Friends from Westfield, North Carolina, and
Phineas Hunt and his family, all members of the Society except
himself, at that time, (he soon after became a member,) moved to
the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. Here I will note that Mary
Hunt, daughter of Phineas and Elizabeth Hunt, was born on the
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18th of Tenth Month, 1796, four miles from Point Pleasant, on the
Virginia shore.
In the Second Month, 1797, Jesse Baldwin and Phineas Hunt crossed
the Ohio River with their families, and settled opposite Green
Bottom, near to each other. Two families of Friends now settled
together, in the North-Western Territory, with one before
mentioned, quite remote from them.
On the 8th day of Fifth Month, the same year, 1797, John Winder,
Margaret his wife, and three single children (Abner, Mercy, and
Elizabeth,) and son James and his wife, Deborah Winder, and
sons-in-law, Isaac Warner and wife, Mary, and their daughter,
Lydia, and William Chandler and his wife, Hannah, and Levi
Warner, (afterward son-in-law to John Winder,) from Westland,
Pennsylvania, settled at High Bank, on the east side of the
Scioto River, near the end of the railroad bridge, four miles
below where Chillicothe now is.
In the latter part of this year, 1797, Jesse Baldwin, after
raising some corn opposite Green Bottom, moved some eighteen
miles down the Ohio, and settled in what is called Quaker Bottom,
in Lawrence county, Ohio, opposite the mouth of Guyandot River,
and present town of that name. Here he was very soon joined by
Nathaniel Pope, from Grayson county, Virginia, whose wife,
Martha, was a member, and himself some time after. I note this
place of more than usual interest, it being the spot where
Friends in the North-Western Territory first sat down to hold a
meeting for Divine worship, which will be noticed at proper date.
I will here, in order of time, say that John Warner, son of Isaac
and Mary Warner, was born at High Bank, Ross county, Ohio, on the
12th day of Seventh Month, 1798. The first birth of a member of
the Society of Friends north-west of the Ohio River; and that on
the 11th of the Eleventh Month, the same year, 1798, Rebecca
Chandler, daughter of William and Hannah Chandler, was born at or
near the same place, both grandchildren of John and Margaret
Winder. I presume they are both living - the latter the wife of
Alexander Bell, of Iowa, and an Elder in the Church.
In the year above stated, 1798, Samuel Schooley, Cicily, his
wife, with some children; Henry Lewis and children, (John, David,
and Catherine,) and William Lewis and his wife, Sarah; Evan Evans
and wife, Patience, and their children; George Sinclair and
family -all from Hopewell, Southland, and that part of Virginia settled at High Bank.
In the same year Hugh Moffit, his wife, Hannah, and children
(Jeremiah, Charles, Joseph, John, Joshua, and several of their
wives and some sisters;) William Redish and family, and William
Picket, all from North Carolina, settled at Salt Creek, now
Richmond, Ross county, Ohio.
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In the year 1799 Thomas Beals, who had visited this country
twenty-four years before, now moved to Quaker Bottom with his
family, and sons, John and Daniel, and their families, and
grandson, Able Thornberry; Obediah Overman, Abigail, his wife,
and family - all from Grayson county, Virginia. On their arrival
they opened a meeting for worship in the dwelling of Jesse
Baldwin, which was regularly held during their residence at that
place, which they unitedly believed was favored with the Master's
presence. The nearest meeting to them was Westland,
Pennsylvania. Sometime in this year, 1799, Taylor Webster and
Hannah, his wife, and children, John and Susana, from Red Stone,
Pennsylvania, settled at Grassy Prairie, five miles north-east
from Chillicothe. Meetings after this were occasionally held at
Hugh Moffit's, Taylor Webster's, and High Bank.
On the 20th of the Eleventh Month, the same year, 1799, Abijah
Oneal, Samuel Kelly, and I think David Pugh, at the same time,
from Bush River, South Carolina, settled at Waynesville.
On the 25th of Fourth Month, 1800, David Faulkner and Samuel
Painter and their families, and William Walker and wife, Martha,
from Hopewell, Virginia, settled at Waynesville, leaving their
certificates at Westland, Pennsylvania, on their way. Near the
same time Amaziah Beeson, from New Hope, Tennessee, and Enos
Haines, from Crooked Run, Virginia, with their families, settled
at Waynesville.
In the summer of this year, 1800, Joseph Cloud, from North
Carolina, and Jacob Jackson, from Tennessee, ministers, paid a
visit to Ohio, held their first meetings at George Harlan's,
Deerfield; then proceeded to Waynesville and held one or two
meetings there, and, lastly, one at High Bank. This meeting and
that at Deerfield were those alluded to in the memorial of Joseph
Cloud on their way to and from Waynesville.
On the 25th of Third Month, 1801, Rollin Richards, a minister,
Ezekiel Cleaver, David Holloway, and Levi Lukins, at or near the
same time, with their families, from Hopewell and Southland,
Virginia, settled at Waynesville. They also left their
certificates at Westland, Pennsylvania, and requested the
privilege of holding a meeting for worship in Waynesville, which
was not granted.
In the spring of the year 1801, Thomas Beals, Jesse Baldwin, John
Beals, and Daniel Beals moved from Quaker Bottom, and they, with
Enoch Cox and their families, settled on Salt Creek, near the
present town of Adelphia. At this place, Grassy Prairie, High
Bank, and Hugh Moffit's, meetings were held by Friends of the
several settlements coming together at such places as
circumstances most favored.
On the 26th of Fourth Month, the same year, 1801, Friends in and
near Waynesville, consisting of twenty-four parents and
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fifty-seven children, United in holding a meeting for worship,
which was attended that day by Roland Richards, Lydia Richards,
Abijah Oneal, Anna Oneal, Ezekiel Cleaver, Abigail Cleaver, David
Holloway, Hannah Holloway, David Faulkner, Judith Faulkner, David
Pugh, Rachel Pugh, James Mills, Lydia Mills, Samuel Kelly, Hannah
Kelly, William Walker, Martha Walker, David Painter, Martha
Painter, Levi Lukins, Anna Lukins, and others, in Ezekiel
Cleaver's house, in Waynesville, and continued to be held on each
First-day.
On the 29th of Eighth Month, 1801, Thomas Beals died, and was
buried on the 31st of the same month, near Richmond, Ross county,
in a coffin of regular shape hewed out of a solid white-walnut
tree by his ever faithful friend, Jesse Baldwin, assisted by
Enoch Cox and others. The coffin was covered with a slab from
the same tree, which tree was selected for the purpose by the
deceased while living. The coffin was not hollowed by burning,
as stated by Mary Howett, of England, in her book to her cousins
in Ohio.
Around the grave of that truly devoted man, with that of William
Pickett, Hugh Moffit, Sarah Hiatt, and others, the meeting for
Sufferings of Indiana Yearly Meeting, very recently caused a
permanent stone wall to be built, where no friends reside. A
meeting-house was some time after built on the land, then
belonging to the Moffit family, and a meeting held there for some
time. The burying ground at this place, and that near it, first
used, were donated by the latter owner to the writer, and, at his
request, the title was made to trustees appointed by the meeting
for Sufferings of Indiana Yearly Meeting, as property of said
Yearly Meeting. They are now both properly inclosed.
About the year 1802, John Winder, with most of his children and
their families, moved west of the Scioto, and settled on Dry Run,
some six miles above Chillicothe, where they, with some friendly
neighbors, (several of whom afterward joined in religious
fellowship with Friends) opened a meeting for worship, which in
due time was noticed on record, and continued until the year
1828. To this meeting Taylor Webster and John Trimble and their
families belonged in their latter time.
In the spring of 1802 James Hayworth and family, members of
Society, Nathaniel Pope and John Walter - the wives of the two
latter only were then members - settled on Lee's Creek, in and
near where the present town of Leesburg now stands, in Highland
county, Ohio, where no white person before lived.
In the fall of the same year, 1802, Sarah Beals, widow of Thomas
Beals, and her sons, John and Daniel Beals, and their families,
moved from Adelphia, and Phineas Hunt and family from Raccoon
Falls, and all settled at Lee's Creek and Harden's Creek, near
each other. I will here state that before this date Jacob Smith,
Nathaniel Pope, and Hannah Wright lived some time at the Falls of
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Paint, in Ross county, from which place Hannah Wright, with her
family, moved to Harden's Creek in this year, 1802. Jacob Smith
and family moved to the vicinity of Waynesville, (date unknown.)
In the summer of this year a committee from Westland,
Pennsylvania, visited Friends at Waynesville, approved of the
meeting, and a further privilege was granted them of holding a
week-day meeting also, and to be called Miami Meeting.
In the spring of 1803, Jesse Baldwin, Evan Evans, John Bowater
Beals, John Crew, with their families, moved to Lee's and
Harden's Creeks.
In the summer of 1803 a committee from Red Stone Quarterly
Meeting, Pennsylvania, visited Miami Meeting on a request for its
establishment and the further privilege of holding a Preparative
and Monthly Meeting. Our beloved friend Ann Taylor, lately
deceased, was one of said committee, who, on her way home, held a
meeting for worship at the dwelling of James Hayworth, near the
east end of Leesburg - the first meeting of Friends held in those
parts.
In the fall of this year William Lupton and Bathsheba his wife,
and family, their son Solomon Lupton and wife Rachel, from
Hopewell, Virginia, settled at Lee's Creek. On their arrival
Bathsheba Lupton became concerned to encourage Friends to collect
together for the purpose of holding a meeting for worship, in
which our very aged friend, Sarah Beals, heartily united. A
meeting was opened the next First-day and continued to be held at
William Lupton's, where James Huff's brick house now stands, and
at John Beals, where Daniel Burges's stone house now stands, or
very near it, and continued to be held on First-day until a
meeting-house was built at Fairfield.
On the 12th and 13th of Tenth Month this year, 1803, Miami
Preparative and Monthly Meetings were opened, its limits
extending east to Hockhocking River, south to the Ohio River, and
to the north and west no bounds.
In the Fifth Month, 1804, Miami Monthly Meeting authorized
Friends of Lee's Creek and Harden's Creek to hold their meetings
twice a week, eastwardly from Waynesville thirty-three miles. At
this place, by consent of Miami Monthly Meeting, Enos Baldwin,
son of Jesse and Sarah Baldwin, and Sarah Hunt, daughter of
Phineas and Elizabeth Hunt, were married, in the Eleventh Month,
1804, on the First day of the week, in a meeting held that day in
the dwelling of William Lupton. These were children of the two
first families of Friends that settled near each other and the
first that were married in the Order of Friends in the limits of
Indiana Yearly Meeting.
In Fifth Month, 1805, the Monthly Meeting privileged Friends of
Todd's Fork, now Center, to hold meetings twice a week, twelve
miles eastwardly from Waynesville.
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The same month, if I am correct in time, Friends of West Branch
were granted privilege of holding meetings twice a week,
north-west thirty-four miles from Waynesville.
In Seventh Month, the same year, a meeting was granted to Friends
of Elk, twenty-five miles west of Waynesville.
In Tenth Month, same year, a meeting was granted at Caesar's
Creek, six miles north-east.
In Fourth Month, 1806, a meeting was granted at Turtle Creek, six
miles south-west.
In Seventh Month, same year, a meeting was granted at Clear
Creek, Highland county, south-east thirty-four miles.
In Ninth Month, same year, a meeting was granted at Fall Creek,
in same county, south-east forty miles from Waynesville.
In Tenth Month, same year, a meeting was granted at Ludlow's
Creek, now Union, forty miles north-west.
In Twelfth Month, the same year, 1806, Red Stone Quarterly
Meeting established Elk preparative and meeting for worship, West
Branch monthly preparative and meeting for worship, Center
Monthly Meeting alternately at Caesar's Creek, and a preparative
and meeting for worship at each place.
In Eighth Month, 1807, a meeting was granted at Hopewell, twelve
miles south of Waynesville.
In Ninth Month, same year, 1807, Red Stone Quarterly Meeting
established Fairfield Monthly Meeting alternately, at Clear
Creek, a preparative, and meeting for worship at Fairfield; Clear
Creek preparative, alternately at Fall Creek, and a meeting for
worship at each of those places.
In Tenth Month, same year, 1807, Miami Monthly Meeting granted a
meeting at Mad River, now Goshen, north-east fifty-five miles
from Waynesville, and in Tenth Month, 1808, granted a meeting at
Darby Creek, some five miles north-east from Goshen.
In Tenth Month, 1808, Baltimore Yearly Meeting established Miami
Quarterly Meeting in Waynesville.
In the year 1811 Baltimore Yearly Meeting established West Branch
Quarterly Meeting, which was held,part of the time at White
Water, now Richmond, Indiana.
In the year 1812, the writer of the foregoing attended Baltimore
Yearly Meeting, when a committee reported that West Branch
Quarterly Meeting had been opened according to direction, but no
report from said meeting was received. At that time Ohio Yearly
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Meeting was set off, embracing the meetings belonging to Red
Stone Quarterly Meeting, Pennsylvania; all the meetings in the
State of Ohio, and the only one then in Indiana, White Water.
The Yearly Meeting of Ohio was opened and held at Short Creek,
near Mt. Pleasant, in the Eighth Month, 1813.
I will here state that a few weeks before the Yearly Meeting, and
shortly before the writer of this reached the place, Sarah Beals,
the widow of Thomas Beals, deceased, on the 7th of the Seventh
Month 1813, died, aged 89 years, and was buried at Fairfield.
One circumstance, rather remarkable, I will relate here: After
the lapse of many years, and various removals of the parties,
Beverly Milner, the young man that was convinced in the Fort,
settled near the last residence of Sarah Beals, and, without
doubt, attended her interment; and, I may further add to the
former statement, that, after he became too feeble to attend
meeting, he was very much engaged in exhortation, prayer and
praise, often alluding to the ministry of that heavenly man by
which he was convinced; that it was "no cunningly devised fable,"
but living and substantial truth. He died in great peace of
mind, nearly 87 years of age, in 1843, and was buried at the same
place - Fairfield.
In the year 1814 Ohio Yearly Meeting established Fairfield
Quarterly Meeting, which was opened in Second Month, 1815.
Indiana Yearly Meeting was first held in the fall of 1821.
Western Yearly Meeting was first held in the Ninth Month, 1859.
Iowa Yearly Meeting was to be held in the fall of this year 1863.
I have now brought the foregoing account to a close, which has
rested on my mind for many years, and I think it may be relied on
as being very nearly correct, as much so as any well could be of
so long a series of years. I have been nearly fifty years
obtaining the items of which the account is composed. I have had
a large acquaintance from early life with very many of the
nearest relations of Thomas Beals, and have seen all the
ministers, or nearly so, mentioned in this memoranda that lived
in my day. I lived neighbor to several of those who settled at
Quaker Bottom and at High Bank. Was some acquainted with George
Harlen; was much acquainted at Waynesville with the first
settlers there; had some acquaintance with Joseph Mills, brother
to William Hunt's wife, and a very long acquaintance with his
widow, Hannah Mills, who not long since deceased, at the advanced
age of ninety-four years, from whom I received much reliable
information. I could state many other opportunities I have had
of obtaining correct information, but do not wish to enlarge.
I now feel satisfied that I have nearly discharged a little
legacy of good-will to the many descendants of John Beals in
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general, as well as those descended from his son, Thomas Beals;
and to the Society of Friends at large a people whom I have
dearly loved from my youth to the present day I can confidingly
leave this as a true and solid foundation on which a history of
the Society in a future day may be based.
I wish to say here that I have not designed to cover any part of
the territory of Ohio Yearly Meeting. If any settlements of
Friends were made, or any meetings held there, before my dates, I
hope Friends there will hold me excused. I do not recollect the
date of dear David Graves's meeting at Jehu Colson's, nor at this
moment that of meetings held in the tent of our beloved friends
Jonathan and Ann Taylor - the latter very lately deceased - of
that Yearly Meeting, but think they were both since 1799; at
least since 1775, the date of Thomas Beals's first visit to Ohio.
I will, before I close, give a very brief statement of the last
residence of the first Friends that crossed the Ohio River, in
addition to those already mentioned. I will say first that I do
not know where William Hiatt died - one of the first - but I
suppose either in Virginia or North Carolina.
Bowater Sumner, an Elder, a nephew to Thomas Beals, died at Fall
Creek, Ohio.
David Ballard, the youngest of the four first, died near
Wilmington, Clinton county, Ohio, then a minister very advanced
in age.
I do not know where William Robinson died, but presume it was in
Grayson county, Virginia, or North Carolina.
George Harlin and wife died near Waynesville, both respectable
members of the Society, but of their children none remained
members.
Jesse Baldwin, after serving his friends in various ways, and the
Society in many places, spending a portion of his time in
instructing the Indians of Wapakonetta, and faithfully bearing
his testimony for the doctrine of Christianity in time of sore
conflict in the Society of Friends, his useful life closed in
much peace, in the limits of Goshen Monthly Meeting, Logan
county, Ohio, in advanced age.
Phineas Hunt, in latter life, withdrew for a time from Friends,
but was in a very remarkable manner favored to see his error, and
condemned, in all its parts, that spirit that caused the
separation. It was the privilege of the writer to spend a few
minutes with him and his wife in their very advanced age, not
long before his close. It was among the sweet moments of my
life. His countenance shone with brightness while he declared
the love and mercy of the Savior and his confidence in him. I
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thought they were both very near the kingdom, though he was not a
member.
Daniel Beals died in Randolph county, Indiana; John Beals died in
Hamilton county, Indiana.
Enoch Cox died in Indiana.
Nathaniel Pope died at Clear Creek, Highland county, Ohio.
Obediah Overman died at Fall Creek, in said county, in 1841, aged
ninety-three years.
Abigail Overman died at the same place, in 1834, aged eighty-five
years.
Evan Evans died at Fairfield, same county, in 1847, aged near
ninety-five years.
Hannah Wright died at Harden's Creek, same county, in 1855, aged
ninety-five years.
John Winder died in 1819, aged eighty-two years, at Dry Run, near
Chillicothe, Ohio.
William Lupton and John Crew died a few years after their arrival
in Ohio.
Bathsheba Lupton died at Fairfield, in 1847, in the
eighty-seventh year of her age.
Abijah O'Neal died in Clinton county, somewhat advanced in age,
and was brought home and buried in Waynesville, near his
residence.
Samuel Kelly died near Waynesville, in a very advanced age.
David Pugh died in Cincinnati, an old man.
Joseph Cloud died near Waynesville in advanced age.
Jacob Jackson died at Martinsville, Clinton county, ninety-six
years of age.
Rolen Richards died in Cincinnati, in a very advanced age.
Levi Lukens died in the vicinity of Waynesville, about the year
1860, I believe over ninety years old.
David Painter, David Faulkner, and their wives, died in the
limits of Center Monthly Meeting, Ohio.
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William Walker and wife died within the limits of Springfield
Monthly Meeting, in the same county, all in good old age.
Samuel Scooley died at Fairfield, Ohio, quite old.
Several individuals whose names are entered as early settlers,
and their deaths noticed, left society in the time of separation,
but as they have passed away, I have not thought best to name
them in this memoranda, but sincerely hoping they were accepted
at last.
I will now close this account in saying that I have no selfish
view connected with it, but can truly say I feel thankful to our
Father in heaven, that he has continued to preserve this people
through the various trials to which they have been subjected, and
blessed them with great increase in this land, not only in
number, but with a growth in the life and power of true religion
and great increase of living ministry, and that so very large a
number of descendants of the subjects of the foregoing narrative
are at this day faithful friends and laborors for the cause of
Christ, our holy Redeemer.
GERSHOM PERDUE
Third month 3, 1863
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INDEX BY FAMILY NAME
Ankrum
Sarah . . .
Baldwin
Enos . . . .
Hannah . . .
Jesse . . .
Sarah . . .
William . .
Ballard
David . . .
Beals
Bowater . .
Daniel . . .
Eleazar . .
John . . . .
John Bowater
Mary . . . .
Phebe . . .
Prudence . .
Sarah . . .
Thomas . . .
William . .
Beeson
Amaziah . .
Bell
Alexander .
Bond
Elizabeth .
John . . . .
Bowater
Sarah . . .
Burges
Daniel . . .
Carson
Esther . . .
Chandler
Hannah . . .
Rebecca . .
William . .
Clark
Assenath . .
Dougan . . .
Cleaver
Abigail . .
Ezekiel . .
Cloud
Hannah . . .
Joseph . . .
Coffin
Naomy . . .
Colson
Jehu . . . .
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Charity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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Dukemineer
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Evans
Evan . . .
Patience .
Faulkner
David . .
Judith . .
Foster
William .
Fulghum
Benjamin .
Graves
David . .
Haines
Enos . . .
Haisely
Ruth . . .
Harlan
George . .
Harlen
Aaron . .
George . .
Margery .
Moses . .
Samuel . .
Harlin
George . .
Hayworth
James . .
Hiatt
Asaph . .
Benajah .
Sarah . .
William .
Hockett
Jesse . .
Ruth . . .
Holloway
David . .
Hannah . .
Horton
James . .
Howett
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Elizabeth
Esther . .
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Nathan . .
Phineas .
Priscilla
Sarah . .
Thomas . .
William .
Jackson
Jacob . .
Jessop
Levi . . .
Kelly
Hannah . .
Samuel . .
Lewis
Catherine
David . .
Enoch . .
Henry . .
John . . .
Sarah . .
William .
Lukens
Levi . . .
Lukins
Anna . . .
Levi . . .
Lupton
Bathsheba
Rachel . .
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William .
Mendenhall
Miriam . .
Mills
Hannah . .
James . .
John . . .
Joseph . .
Lydia . .
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Hugh . . .
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Moise
Abigail . .
O'Neal
Abijah . . .
Oneal
Abijah . . .
Anna . . . .
Ottoman
Isaac . . .
Overman
Abigail . .
Obediah . .
Owen
James . . .
Painter
David . . .
Martha . . .
Samuel . . .
Perdue
Eliza . . .
Elizabeth .
Esther . . .
Gershom . .
Hannah . . .
Isaac . . .
Jacob . . .
Jemima . . .
Mentor . . .
Mentor Pimm
Thomas Kite
Picket
William . .
Pickett
William . .
Pope
Martha . . .
Nathan . . .
Nathaniel .
Pugh
David . . .
Rachel . . .
Redish
William . .
Richards
Lydia . . .
Roland . . .
Rolen . . .
Rollin . . .
Robinson
William . .
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Cicily . . .
Samuel . . .
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Jonathan .
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Able . . .
Trimble
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Martha . .
William .
Walter
John . . .
Warner
Isaac . .
John . . .
Levi . . .
Lydia . .
Mary . . .
Wasson
Calvin . .
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Hannah . .
John . . .
Susana . .
Taylor . .
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Daniel . .
Jesse . .
Richard .
Winder
Abner . .
Deborah .
Elizabeth
James . .
John . . .
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