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Meeting name: CHARLESTON
Former meeting names
   No former names are known
State or Province: SOUTH CAROLINA
County: CHARLESTON
Physical location: CHARLESTON, KING STREET
Latitude: 32.8~ N    Longitude: 079.9~ W

Date granted:
Date of first meeting: 1719/11/11
Date laid down:
Date of last meeting: 1786/08/02
Before and After: WORSHIP 1680, VOLUNTARY BUSINESS 1683BEF UNDER LONDON YM. AT CLOSING, PHILADELPHIA YM ASKED NORTH CAROLINA YM TO ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY. ATTACHED TO BUSH RIVER MM, WHICH L.D. WORSHIP 1788/03/29. WORSHIP CONTINUED UNTIL 1837AFT.

Branches
   No branches are known
Latest yearly meeting: INDEPENDENT
Where records are kept: HAVERFORD tr S.C. HIST. SOC. mf LDS 20457, 23359. SWARTHMORE
Records known extant:
Affiliations
   BRITAIN (LONDON) Y.M. MTG. FOR SUFFERINGS -
   PHILADELPHIA Y.M. BY - 1780s
Local-related histories: STEPHEN B. WEEKS, SOUTHERN QUAKERS AND SLAVERY (1896), p. 91 et passim. W. SCOTT POOLE, CHAPTER ON "'YOUR LIBERTY IN THAT PROVINCE': SOUTH CAROLINA QUAKERS AND THE REJECTION OF RELIGIOUS TOLERATION", pp. 165-183 IN JAMES L. UNDERWOOD, ET AL., EDS., THE DAWN OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN SOUTH CAROLINA (2006). 1767 REPORT FROM PHILADELPHIA YM MEETING FOR SUFFERINGS TO LONDON YM MEETING FOR SUFFERINGS IN FRIENDS HOUSE LIBRARY, LONDON, FOLIO 38, ITEM 8.
Comments: SEE HINSHAW, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY, Vol. I, pp. 1073-1076. SEE ALSO WILLIAM F. MEDLIN, QUAKER FAMILIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA & GEORGIA (1982), OR S. EMMETT LUCAS, QUAKERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA (1991).
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