[email protected] wrote:

 I have found out that there were Quakers in SC.  The Hinshaw books list only
> four monthly meeting places.  They are:  Bush River, Cane Creek, Charleston,
> Piney Grove.  What counties would these meeting houses be in?   Nora
>
> 
  I thought I might add that many of the Quakers that met at the Bush River
meeting house moved from South Carolina to Miami Ohio during the early 1800s.
After that time the Quaker element that remained here was absorbed into the
other various religious sects in the  community.

The move out of South Carolina was precipitated by one of the Quaker exhorters,
preachers or whatever who decided the institution of slavery was evil and
demanded that all of the "true believers" free their slaves and leave this evil
place. Some of the flock freed their slaves and some  didn't.. Some of the
Quakers while at the Bush River meeting  agreed to free their slaves but within
24 hrs changed their minds and didn't file the required legal documents to free
their slaves and remained in South Carolina.

One last tibit and I will hush. Former President Richard Millhouse Nixion's
Millhouse ancestors left Newberry  County with the grroup that moved to Miami
Ohio.

-David

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