This meeting house was built in 1759 and nearly doubled with an addition constructed in 1788.
See more on the history of Hopewell Meeting.
photo copyright by MJP Grundy, 2000
This page is still under construction; a few notes are missing or incomplete.
1. This information is repeated many times on various genealogy sites on the web, which, of course, does not constitute proof. For example, Paul Forstad on http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1932384&id=I10961; Barbara Henkle at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:984222&id=I2423; Jay Haskin at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=:659950&id=I4659; also Judy Brukner, at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=:938967&id=I1284; and an incomplete URL of familysearch, familyid=2101866 and familyid=41608465. I do not know if there is any connection, but the Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse Hearth Tax of 1666 listed James Dobson, chargeable for 1, as transcribed on http://members.aol.com/wryorks/hipht.htm. I include the data until I have time to research it myself.
2. Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England, 5th ed. (London: 1842), 3:440, 628.
3. See citation 1; also familysearch, familyid=10933998.
3a. "Meetings in Yorkshire, 1668", in Journal of the Friends Historical Society (London), Vol. 2, no. 2, p. 74, image seen on www.quakerrecords.com, 10/24/2007.
3b. Quarter Sessions Order Books, as digitized on ancestry.library, seen 3/3/2021.
4. Lewis, Topographical Dic., 3:50.
5. Lewis, Topographical Dic., 1:37.
6. Barbara Henkle at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:984222&id=I2423 ; plus mtg records?
6. West Riding Quarter Sessions Order Books, facsimile digitized on ancestry.library, seen 3/3/2021.
7. Paul Forstad on http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1932384&id=I10961 citing Wilmer L. Kerns, Frederick County Virginia: Settlement and Some First Families of Back Creek Valley 1730-1830, p. 161, which may be referring to "Boone and Morgan, in Scarborough/Haworth".
8. Records of Monthly Meeting of Brighouse (Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield) as digitized on ancestry.com, and emailed to me 2m/3/2021 by Sara Patton.
9. These are given on many web sites; see, for example the list in note 1; also familysearch, familyid=5720591.
10. Abstract of the will of STEPHEN TWINING of Newtown. 12th mo., 20th day, 1719/20. Proved May 19, 1720. Sons John and Stephen, Plantation at Newtown bought of John Ward adj. land formerly Michael Hough's. Son John, land left me by Government of New England. Sons Eleazer and Nathaniel, land adj. Wm. Buckman, where Jos. Lupton lived, 230 acres. To daus. Rachel Twining and Mercy Lupton, grandchildren each 5 shillings. Sons Stephen and Nathaniel exrs. Wit: James and Agnes Yeates and Abrm. Chapman. From Bucks County Will Book 1, #48, as abstracted on http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/bucks/wills/willabstbk1.txt Compare with the actual text, in Stephen Twining's biographical entry.
11. Abstract of the will of NATHANIEL DONHAM of Co. of Bucks, Yeoman. March 28, 1732. Proved May 12, 1732. Wife Hannah, sole ex'rx. and guardian of son Ephraim. Dau. Elizabeth House and Lot in Newtown now rented by John Frohock. Son Ephraim 48 acres in Newtown purchased of Joseph Lupton. Wit: James Yeates, Sarah Twining, John Frohock. From Bucks County Will Book 1, #168, as abstracted on http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/bucks/wills/willabstbk1.txt Sarah Twining was probably Sarah KIRK, wife of Nathaniel Twining.
12. Paul Forstad citing David Walker Lupton as quoted in Wilmer L. Kerns, Frederick County Virginia, on http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1932384&id=I10788
13. Middletown Mo. Mtg. Women’s minutes, 6/6/1713, 3/7m/1713.
14. familysearch, familyid=2101866. Paul Forstad writes they were married on 10 of 7mo at house of Stephen Twining, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1932384&id=I10788. There is the usual confusion over Old Style and Quaker dating.
15. Middletown Mo. Mtg. Women’s minutes, 6/3m/1714. Paul Forstad quotes from their paper, on http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1932384&id=I10788.
16. Barbara Henkle at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:984222&1d=12423. For reasons I do not understand this URL is not to the page itself but to the front page that requires you to type in "Lupton, Joseph", which gets you to the index, where you have to click on the correct Joseph Lupton (the one who d. in 1758). It may have been corrected by now.
17. Middletown MM, and Buckingham MM minutes. See also the account by Henry W. Scarborough, 3 Nov. 1934, printed in Hopewell Friends History: 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia (Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1936), 99. Joseph was treasurer, not clerk, as Scarborough had mistakenly written.
18. John T. Lupton's speculation based on a holograph note from his father, as recounted by Barbara Henkle on her web page.
19. Hopewell Friends History, 476.
20. Buckingham MM Men's minutes, 4/6m/1730.
21. Buckingham MM Men’s minutes, 7/1m/1731/2. Jonas Preston married 1732 Jane Paxson. See Paxson lines.
22. Buckingham MM Men’s minutes, 2/3m/1734, 6/6/1739.
23. Buckingham MM Men’s minutes, 4/6m/1740.
24. Wilmer L. Kerns, Frederick County Virginia: Settlement and Some First Families of Back Creek Valley 1730-1830 as cited by Paul Forstad on http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1932384&id=I10788
25. Joint Committee of Hopewell Friends, assisted by John W. Wayland, Hopewell Friends History, 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia (Strasburg, Va.: Printed by Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1936), 534.
26. Buckingham MM minutes, 6/2m/1741, 4/3m/1741. See also Hopewell Friends History, 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia, 531, for an abstract of the minutes.
27. As quoted by Barbara Henkle. See Pennsylvania Gazette,
28. Hopewell Friends History, 18.
29. Hopewell Friends History, 22.
30. Hopewell Friends History, 332.
31. Hopewell Friends History, 99; "Committee Members in Hopewell Book 1: 1759-1776", as listed in Ibid., 531.
31a. Hopewell Friends History, 50.
32. Hopewell Friends History, 240.
33. Hopewell Friends History, 240.
34. Some Account of the Life and Gospel Labours of William Reckett (Philadelphia: reprinted by Joseph Crukshank, 1783), 61. For an interesting glimpse at some of Reckett's descendants, see Penelope Lively, A House Unlocked (New York: Grove Press, 2001).
35. Some Account of the Life and Gospel Labours of William Reckett (Philadelphia: reprinted by Joseph Crukshank, 1783), 61-62.
36. Hopewell Friends History, 119-20.
37. Paul Forstad, citing Frederick County, Virginia Will Book, 2:308, on his website http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1932384&id=I10788. William's date of death is in "Family Records of Hopewell" as transcribed in Hopewell Friends History, 476.
38. An Account of the Gospel Labors and Christian Experiences of that Faithful Minister of Christ, John Churchman, late of Nottingham, in Pennsylvania (Phila.: Friends’ Book Store, 1862), 257.
39. William W. H. Davis, History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 3 vols., 2nd. ed. (New York: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1905), 3:517, 669.
40. First 4 birth dates from Middletown Monthly Meeting records; death dates and places, and the fifth child, are from familysearch, familyid=2101866. Additional information will be cited separately.
41. "Hopewell Certificates of Membership and Removal", in Hopewell Friends History, 438; "Buckingham Records" as transcribed in Ibid., 534. The date of their wedding was between 2/7m/1745 when they were cleared for marriage at Buckingham Meeting, and 7/8m/1745, the date of the monthly meeting at which it was reported that the marriage had been accomplished in good order. Additional information on William from Barbara Henkle at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:984222&id=I2514 and Paul Forstad at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1932384&id=I10788.
42. "Committee Members in Hopewell Book 3: 1791-1803", as listed in Ibid., 532.
43. Names and birth dates of children in "Family Records of Hopewell", Hopewell Friends History, 476.
44. Hopewell Friends History, 255.
45. Hopewell Friends History, 299.
46. Hopewell Friends History, 319.
47. Hopewell Friends History, 330, 338.
48. Hopewell Friends History, 333.
49. Hopewell Friends History, 257. In spite of many attempts to provide parents for Elizabeth Kirk, I am persuaded by Burnis Argo's research that none of them have been proved. E mails 10/15/2007 and 10/16/2007.
50. Hopewell Friends History, 309. Additional information on the George family has been kindly given to me by Burnis (nee George) Argo, e mail October 10, 2007, including data from Exeter MM records, on microfilm at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City.
51. Hopewell Friends History, 327.
52. Hopewell Friends History, 238-9, 289.
53. Hopewell Friends History, 286.
54. Hopewell Friends History, 346.
55. Joint Committee of Hopewell Friends, assisted by John W. Wayland, Hopewell Friends History, 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia (Strasburg, Va.: Printed by Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1936), 274.
56. Joint Committee of Hopewell Friends, assisted by John W. Wayland, Hopewell Friends History, 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia (Strasburg, Va.: Printed by Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1936), 240, 476.
57. "Committee Members in Hopewell Book 2: 1777-1791", as listed in Hopewell Friends History, 532.
58. David Walker Lupton as cited by Barbara Henkle on http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:984222&id=I2514.
59. Names and birth dates of children in "Family Records of Hopewell", Hopewell Friends History, 476.
60. Hopewell Friends History, 265.
61. "Committee Members in Hopewell Book 3: 1791-1803", as listed in Hopewell Friends History, 532.
62. Hopewell Friends History, 317.
63. Hopewell Friends History, 326.
64. Hopewell Friends History, 330.
65. Hopewell Friends History, 334.
66. Hopewell Friends History, 271.
67. Hopewell Friends History, 384.
68. Eastburn Reeder is notorious for confusing several Henry Paxsons. In this instance he lumps together Henry Paxson (b. 1683) whose second wife was the widow Mary (Budd) Shinn, and his son Henry (b. 1722) who married Elizabeth Lupton. According to Reeder on pages 43 and 45, Henry had married first Mary Shinn in 1739 (when he was only 17) and second married Elizabeth Lupton when he was 23. Early Settlers of Solebury, Pa., 43, 45.
69. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:984222&id=I2514.
70. Hopewell Friends History, 245, 263.
71. "Committee Members in Hopewell Book 1: 1759-1776", as listed in Hopewell Friends History, 531.
72. John's first marriage was accomplished in good order under the care of Opekan/Hopewell Meeting. Hopewell Friends History, 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia (Strasburg, Va.: Printed by Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1936), 241. Interestingly, I could find no evidence that John or his second wife were Presbyterians, or that John was disowned. Perhaps the Presbyterianism began in the following generation? Paul Forstad citing Kerns, Frederick County Virginia: Settlement and Some First Families of Back Creek Valley 1730-1830; Forstad also gives the 7 children by Sarah and 2 by Ann on http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=:1932384&id=I10788; see also David Walker Lupton as cited by Barbara Henkle at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:984222&id=I2514.
73. Hopewell Friends History, 476.
74. Hopewell Friends History, 263.
75. Hopewell Friends History, 385.
76. Paul Forstad at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1932384&id=I10788. See also dates of birth (months) on http://www.familysearch.com/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp, AFN: B7XL-D8; AFN: FRBF-HF. The differences between the months is due to confusion over Quaker and Old Style dating. I have not yet checked the original sources to be sure which is correct.
77. Hopewell Friends History, 256.
78. Hopewell Friends History, 411.
79. Hopewell Friends History, 596.
80. Hopewell Friends History, 471.
80a. The children of Mercy and James McCormick courtesy of Cassandra Cooper, e mail May 25, 2015.
81. Hopewell Friends History, 246.
82. "Committee Members in Hopewell Book 2: 1777-1791", as listed in Hopewell Friends History, 531.
83. Names and birth dates of children from "Family Records of Hopewell", Hopewell Friends History, 494; Crooked Run Records, Hopewell Friends History, 494.
84. Hopewell Friends History, 299, 494.
85. Paul Forstad at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1932384&id=I10788
86.
87. Buckingham MM rec.
88. Hopewell Friends History, 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia, 108, 214, 270, 416. Her son James Wright did not sign it because he had removed from Hopewell to Wilmington as a minor 4/8m/1766 (p. 408). Sidney signed the mar. cert. of Henry Rees and Martha Thomas 6/4m/1758 at Opeckan (p. 241); and of Andrew M'Coy and Jane Ridgeway on 27/11m/1760 at Hopewell (p. 242); and Jacob Chandler and Ann Taylor on 27/9m/1764 at Hopewell (p. 246)
89. Davis, History of Bucks County, 3:530. There is the usual confusion over months. See Quaker dating. The first month is from Davis, the one in brackets is from those listed by Henkle on http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:984222&id=I2553. Forstad agrees with Davis, in http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1932384&id=I10788 But Forstad has different dates later on the same website; the URL is http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=:1932384&id=I10788
90. Their children are listed by Barbara Henkle on http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:984222&id=I2546.
91. Hopewell Friends History, 421. The children are listed by Henkle on http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:984222&id=I2553
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A few loose bits that must connect somewhere:
"Probably the first Friends to engage in lumbering on a commercial scale were the brothers Lewis and Joel Lupton. In 1835 they secured the contract to furnish all the ties and trestles for the railroad then being built from Harpers Ferry to Winchester, as well as the lumber for the wooden rails then used. They successfully completed this contract, and used probably for the first time methods employed ever since in construction practice. In 1848 the legislature of Virginia chartered the Winchester & Front Royal Turnpike Co., four miles of which were to be a plank road, and in 1851 a charter was granted to the North Frederick Turnpike Co., four miles of which were to be plank. Lewis and Joel Lupton secured the contract to furnish the lumber and build the plank sections of each of these roads, and likewise successfully completed these projects.
"It was during this period that the remarkable talent for mechanical invention possessed by Joel Lupton and to a lesser extent by his brother Lewis, became apparent. Lewis Lupton suspended a heavy blade of iron in a diagonal direction beneath a wagon, and used the device to scrape aside loose earth from the right of way. Cartmell's History states (p. 453) 'Some enterprising machinists of Kennet Square, Pa., seeing it in use, took advantage of their opportunity, and soon had this useful piece of road machinery in general use, claiming exclusive rights.' The Lupton brothers also invented improvements to the old 'Scotch drum' cylinder threshing machine, which they manufactured. Joel Lupton conceived the idea that to mow grass successfully, the motion of shears must be used, and built a mowing machine with his idea incorporated, which he sold to a man named Hubbard of New Jersey. In the famous law suits between Hubbard and Cyrus McCormick over the reaper patents, Joel Lupton was an important witness and identified his machine. He also invented and built an adding machine, improvements for the cotton gin, a bee hive, and an automatic die and stamping machine for rapidly and cheaply making the metal clamps used in holding the teeth of peg-toothed harrows. His home became locally famous after he equipped the window sash with cords and weights, undoubtedly the first used in the Shenandoah Valley. In 1856 he was a partner in the firm Lavender, Lowe & Lupton engaged in the manufacture of paper from rattan, with factories in New York, Baltimore, and Winchester. He died in 1883 in his 79th year and was buried at Upper Ridge Meeting, of which he was a member. He was a sincere Friend his entire life."
Hopewell Friends History: 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia (Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1936), 173-74.
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