Encyclopedia
of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. VI
by William Wade Hinshaw
originally published by Edwards Brothers, Inc., Ann Arbor,
Michigan
William Wade Hinshaw's renowned Encyclopedia of American
Quaker Genealogy, originally published between 1936 and 1950, contains
approximately 500,000 entries, each volume with a separate surname index. Almost no class of records, religious or secular, has been kept as
meticulously as the monthly meeting records of the Religious Society of Friends
(Quakers). The oldest such records span three centuries of American history and
testify to a general movement of population that extended from New England and
the Middle Atlantic states southward to Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia;
then west to Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The importance of these records cannot
be overstated. Not until recently have the vital statistics of Quakers been
recorded in civil record offices.
Thus, for more than two centuries, the only vital records identifying these
people are to be met with in the Quaker records themselves. Fortunately, the
monthly meeting records contain extensive lists of births, marriages, and
deaths, as well as details of the removal of members from one meeting to
another. (The monthly meeting, during which vital statistics are recorded, is in
fact, a business meeting.)
Painstakingly developed from these monthly meeting records, Hinshaw's
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy is the magnum opus of Quaker
genealogy. In its production, thousands of records were located and abstracted
into a uniform and intelligible system of notation. The data gathered in these
volumes of the Encyclopedia are arranged by meeting, then alphabetically by
family name, and chronologically thereunder. Volume 1: NORTH CAROLINA Volume II:
NEW JERSEY AND PENNSYLVANIA Volume III: NEW YORK Volume IV: OHIO Volume V: OHIO
Volume VI: VIRGINIA. If as the publisher suggests, 50% of our pre-1850 US ancestors were Quaker,
than every researcher needs a personal copy of each and every Volume!
This CD Contains ONE Volume - Volume VI :
A Complete Searchable Publication
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The sixth volume of this monumental reference work deals with Virginia Quaker
genealogical records. The Virginia Yearly Meeting (later disbanded and attached
to Baltimore Yearly Meeting) comprised thirteen monthly meetings and all
particular meetings ever established within the state of Virginia with the
following exceptions: (1) those particular meetings west of the Blue Ridge in
the Valley of Virginia and those immediately south of the Potomac (belonging to
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and later Baltimore Yearly Meeting), and (2) the
nine particular meetings in the extreme southwestern part of the state
(belonging to North Carolina Yearly Meeting). As in the preceding volumes,
births, marriages and deaths are arranged by monthly meeting, then
alphabetically by family name and thereunder chronologically, with all names
listed in the index at the end of the book. Records contained herein refer to
the following monthly meetings: Chuckatuck, Pagan Creek, Western Branch, Black
Water, Upper, Henrico, Cedar Creek, Camp Creek, South River, Goose Creek
(Bedford Co.), Hopewell, Fairfax, Crooked Run, Goose Creek (Loudoun Co.), and
Alexandria.
Completed under tremendous difficulty (Hinshaw died shortly after compilation
of the material), the sixth volume of this monumental reference work deals
with Virginia Quaker genealogical records.
Virginia Yearly Meeting (later
disbanded and attached to Baltimore Yearly Meeting) comprised thirteen monthly
meetings and all particular meetings ever established within the state of
Virginia with the following exceptions: (1) those particular meetings west
of the Blue Ridge in the Valley of Virginia and those immediately south of
the Potomac (belonging to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and later Baltimore
Yearly Meeting), and (2) the nine particular meetings in the extreme southwestern
part of the state (belonging to North Carolina Yearly Meeting).
As in the preceding volumes, births,
marriages, and deaths are arranged by monthly meeting, then alphabetically
by family name and then chronologically, with all names listed in the index
at the end of the book. In addition to the records of the monthly meetings
named below (at which the vital statistics were meticulously recorded), this
volume includes separate sections containing the marriage bonds of Campbell
and Bedford counties. Records contained herein refer to the following monthly
meetings:
Names of Monthly Meetings (in this file):
1. Chuckatuck
|
6. Henrico |
11. Hopewell |
| 2. Pagan Creek |
7. Cedar Creek |
12. Fairfax |
| 3. Western Branch |
8. Camp Creek |
13. Crooked Run |
| 4. Black Water |
9. South River |
14. Goose Creek (Loudoun County)
|
| 5. Upper |
10. Goose Creek (Bedford County)
|
15. Alexandria |
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