Hunnicutt Quaker Research Notes

Pagan Creek Monthly Meeting – established prior to 1702, discontinued 1752

Source:  Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Volume 6, Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1938-.

Spreadsheet compiled by:  Deanna Barton; February 26, 2001.

This meeting was also called Nansemond Monthly Meeting (established prior to 1672, discontinued 1737) & Levy Neck Monthly Meeting.

We have only one torn delapidated volume of the Pagan Creek Monthly Meeting left us. It opens 1738-7^th month and ends 1752-4^th month. Pages are missing from the front. But even this volume gives so little information about the monthly meeting that it is almost negligible. No particular meetings are mentioned nor anything that aids us in defining its limits and status. However, it must be seriously considered that on the page that contains the first minute (dated 1738-7^th month) there is a list of representatives to or from some meetings. This paragraph reads thus, “Rebecca PRETLOW for Surry and Elizabeth CORNWELL and Sarah HUNNICUTT for Burley, Tabitha BUTLER and Anne BUTLER for Butler’s meeting; Mary BAILEY and Martha HARGRAVE for Black Water, Sarah HAMLIN, Christian STANTON …” (for Stanton’s Meeting). Are we then to assume that these are particular meetings in Pagan Creek Monthly Meeting? If so, is it proof that Pagan Creek and Black Water Monthly Meetings are and always were the same? But whether this list was the remainder of the entry for 1738-6^th month or added later, we cannot be certain. All of these meetings are found in Black Water Monthly Meeting records which begin 1752-11^th month. Because of this list and subsequent evidence this writer thinks that Pagan Creek (as formed in 1737) and the Black Water Monthly Meeting (also called Surry) are one and the same.