BUSH RIVER

Last revised: 2013/11/04

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Former Meeting Names:

State or Province: SOUTH CAROLINA

County: NEWBERRY, UNION, LAURENS, KERSHAW

Physical location: NEWBERRY 29108, (CTY. RD. 66) BUSH RIVER RD. => DENNIS DAIRY RD. N. OF THE BUSH RIVER

Latitude: 34.22874° N. Longitude: 081.63824° W.

Date granted: 1770/11/10

Date of first meeting: 1771/01

Date laid down: 1809

Date of last meeting: 1820/12?

Before and After: SETTLED STARTING 1762. PM 1767? FROM FREDERICKSBURG MM. MEMBERS TO NEW GARDEN MM (N.C.) 1809 (ARCHDALE/BUSH HILL AREA). REOPENED 1819-1822. ATTACHED TO SPRINGFIELD MM (N.C.) 1822/04. WORSHIP CONTINUED UNTIL 1837.

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Latest yearly meeting: NORTH CAROLINA Y.M.

Where records are kept: GUILFORD COLLEGE mf tr LDS 255078, SWARTHMORE

Records known extant: NCYM-FUM ARCHIVES: MIN 1772-1820, WOMEN MIN 1792-1802, MARRIAGES 1768-1807, BIRTHS & DEATHS.

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Local-related histories: COMPILED BY WILLARD HEISS, QUAKERS IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA BACKCOUNTRY: WATEREE & BUSH RIVER (1969). JUDITH RUSSELL et al., THE HISTORIC BUSH RIVER QUAKER CEMETERY, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA (2006). CHAPMAN & O'NEALL, "QUAKER SETTLEMENT ON THE BUSH RIVER", THE ANNALS OF NEWBERRY (1892, REPRINTED 2003), pp. 28-35. MOTES & MOTES, LAURENS AND NEWBERRY COUNTIES SOUTH CAROLINA: SALUDA AND LITTLE RIVER SETTLEMENTS 1749-1775: NEIGHBORHOOD MAPS ... (1994)

Comments: SEE HINSHAW, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY, Vol. I, pp. 1015-1039. SEE WILLIAM F. MEDLIN, QUAKER FAMILIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA & GEORGIA (1982), S. EMMETT LUCAS, QUAKERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA (1991).

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