Part 4: Deep Creek Monthly Meeting The Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol. I, Deep Creek Monthly Meeting, Page 971 DEEP CREEK MONTHLY MEETING Surry (now Yadkin) County, North Carolina The establishment of Deep Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends, Surry, (now Yadkin) County, North Carolina, was authorized by the following minute. The first sitting was held the sixth of fourth month, 1793. William Hough was appointed the first clerk; Simon Hadley, recorder of births, deaths and marriages; Daniel Huff, treasurer. "We of the Committee appointed to visit the preparative meeting of Deep Creek on their request to hold a monthly meeting among themselves, after visiting them, Report that we think it will be best to grant their request; with the Quarterly Meeting appointing a committee to attend the sittings thereof for their help and instruction as long as the Quarterly Meeting shall think necessary, all which we submit to the Quarterly Meeting: - Jacob Hunt, Joseph Hoggatt, Moses Gregg, Bowater Sumner, Enoch Macy. Which this Quarterly Meeting concurs with; and directs that they hold said meeting on the first Seventh day in each month, and their preparative meeting on the fifth of the same week and appoints John Talbot, Jacob Hunt, Tristim Barnard, James Thornbrugh, Allen Unthank and Abijah Coffin, to attend the first opening thereof, and Barnedas Coffin, Hezekiah Starbuck, John Sanders and Seth Coffin, to attend the other meetings in the Quarter for at least two of them at each, who are to report their care and satisfaction to next meeting. From a Quarterly Meeting held at Deep River by adjournment the 13th of the 3rd mo. 1793. Jesse Williams, Clerk." Previous to the setting up of a monthly meeting at Deep Creek, the preparative meeting had been under the jurisdiction of Deep River Monthly Meeting. The following list contains the names of some of those who composed the original membership of Deep Creek Monthly Meeting. George Adams Susana Adams William Adams Francis Barnard, Sr. Jane Barnet Daniel Bills Deborah Bills Anna Bond Charlotte Bond John Bond Garner Brian Ann Brown Jacob Brown Jane Brown Mary Brown William Brown James Burnside Mary Burnsides Adam Coffin Hannah Davis Joseph Davis Ann Dobbins Jacob Dobbins Nathan Farmer Bridget Hadley Eulis Hadley Simon Hadly Ruth Hinshaw Rebecca Hobson Stephen Hobson Israel Hough Mary Hough William Hough or Huff Judith Hutchens Nicholas Hutchens Sarah Hutchens Strangeman Hutchens Susanna Hutchens Thomas Hutchens Jemima Johnson John Johnson Daniel Jones Joseph Keys, Jr Lydia Keys Jos. Noblet Samuel Pearson Ann Philips Sarah Reece Catherine Russel Charles Russell Sarah Shugart Zachariah Shugart John Stanfield Archelus Stanley Ann Stockton Thomas Vestal Samuel Welch Keziah Worth Jemima Zacry William Zachery Preparative meetings under Deep Creek Monthly Meeting included Deep Creek, Hunting Creek, Small Creek and Ferbush Creek. The following abstract of the records of the meeting has been complied from one volume of birth, death and marriage records, two volumes of men’s minutes (1793-1853), and one volume of women’s minutes (1793-1875). The men’s minutes, covering the period subsequent to 1853, have been lost.