Golansville Quaker Meetinghouse

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Pioneers in asserting the right to religious freedom, the Caroline Friends (Quakers) held their first meeting nearby on 12 March 1739 together with their partner, Cedar Creek Friends Meeting of Hanover County. At a meeting on 9 May 1767, members issued a call to their fellow Quakers to end slaveholding, the first such movement in Virginia. The Friends' testimony against slavery contributed to declining membership as many immigrated west to free states. The Caroline Friends continued to use their meetinghouse and burying ground until 1853. They then joined Cedar Creek and ultimately became Richmond Friends Meeting.

Department of Historic Resources, 2000

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

James Pinkney Bell, Our Quaker Friends of Ye Olden Time..., (Lynchburg, Va.: J. P. Bell Company, 1905); T. E. Campbell, Colonial Caroline: A History of Caroline County, Virginia (Richmond: Dietz Press, 1954), 161-163, 263; Harold I. Meyer, “Cedar Creek Meeting House, Hanover County, Virginia,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 64 (October 1956): 454-457; R. Arnold Ricks, Jay Worrall, Jr. and Herbert R. Collins, “Early Caroline County Quakers and Their Meeting Houses,” Tidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy, 5 (November/December) 1996:159-163; William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (Ann Arbor: Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1950); Minutes of Meeting for Business, 14 May 1739, Cedar Creek-Caroline Circular Meeting at Golansville, Virginia, in Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers, Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia; Minutes of the Monthly Meeting for Business, 9 May 1767, Quaker Collection, Haverford College Library, Pa.; Stephen B. Weeks, Southern Quakers and Slavery: A Study in Institutional History (Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1896), 199-205.