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Question

Many WikiTree members will have some Quakers among their ancestors. It may be helpful to summarise some of the work of the Quakers Project over recent years, and the main help and resource pages available.

For those researching Quakers, there is an extensive set of resources made available by the Project. The initial help page for this is https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Quaker_Project_Resources, and this links to more detailed pages. A lot of these are geographical: there is a large set of pages, including ones covering American States, English Counties, Scotland, Wales and the Isle on Man. There is also a link to a resources page created by the Irish Quakers team, which comes under the Irish Roots Project. These pages cover books, articles and websites; Quaker Monthly Meetings; and Quaker cemeteries. Suggestions for additions to them are always welcome.

Besides these geographical pages, a Project member has put together a set of notes on Quaker dating (which is often misinterpreted in transcriptions on websites and in books and articles), abbreviations and discipline - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Quaker_Notes. 

As with other Projects, much of the work of Project members is on particular families they are interested in. Research of more general interest has led to:

• the creation of pages for all the Valiant 60 - the set of early Quaker leaders and missionaries: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Valiant_Sixty. WikiTree seems to be the only site where this has been done.
• substantial extension of WikiTree’s coverage of Quaker bankers and of Quaker makers of clocks, watches and scientific instruments: these were areas of activity where Quakers played a prominent role. Work on them is continuing.

Finally, it may be worth mentioning that an article on Quakers and WikiTree has just been published in the July 2023 issue of Quaker Connections, the magazine of the UK Quaker Family History Society. Hopefully, this will be some useful publicity for WikiTree.

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Answer 1

Thanks for this link.  My mother's mother was a member of the Society of Friends and I will have a look at these resources.

Answer 2

My situation is unusual.  

I have good data from Jacob Wells, my GGGG-gf, who died 6 Sep 1844 in Clark County, AR, to me.

My YDNA was analyzed by FamilyTreeDNA in 2016.  I was assigned to the W013 Wells line that descends from Henry Edmund Wells and his wife Elizabeth Guest Wells.  

Henry and Elizabeth had 9 sons and one daughter.  Henry died in 1714 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania America Colony. His will named eight sons and "wife with child."  Elizabeth named that child Abraham.  I believe at least two of the sons named in the will became Quakers.  I am grateful for the records about them I found in the minutes of the Religious Society of Friends meetings.

I have been unable so far to link one of the nine sons to my Jacob.  I have been searching since 2016 to no avail.

Answer 3

Here are my KNOWN Quakers - Albert ALBERTSON  of Perquimans Co,,NC, John ANDERSON of early Perquimans Co,NC, William BAILEY Albamarle Co,NC, Ephriam BLANCHARD of Chowan Co,NC, William BUNDY of R.I. & NC., William CHARLES of NE. North Carolina, Timothy CLAARE of Perquimans Co,NC, Agnes FISHER w/o John TRUEBLOOD, Mary GOSBEY w/o Albert ALBERTSON, George MAGGS of Barbadoes d.1677, Edward MAYO of Perquimans Co,NC, Edmund NICHOLSON of Marblehead,MA, Darby SEXTON  of NE North Carolina, John TRUEBLOOD of Pasquotank Co,NC  John WILSON of Perquimans Co,,NC

Comments

The Quaker Community in Perquimans was very small and the families heavily interconnected. Several of the people you mention above have existing WikiTree profiles with their documented ancestry connected. While it may often be read that all persons of a certain surname descend from a single individual, in the case of the Trueblood family this appears to be substantiated by fact with a Trueblood descendant having mapped out most of the family in WikiTree. One of the trickiest parts of Perquimans are sorting out the multiple people in different generations with the same names. And, any number of these people had three and four marriages.

Answer 4

During the Connect-A-Thon I added some Quaker ancestors of my SIL. I went back today and added the Quaker sticker and category to those I knew were Quakers from the records I found.

Answer 5

I have many Quaker ancestors from the Lancaster, PA area who migrated west to Clearfield County, PA.  Names such as Pusey, Mendenhall, Shoff, Seitz, Keagy, Stalker, Cooper, Paxson

Comments

Sarah Mendenhall Buis was a Quaker.