THE OLD QUAKER CHURCH AT GOLANSVILLE
S. B. Weeks, in Southern Quakers and Slavery, states that the
Golansville or Caroline Meeting was established in 1739 and
discontinued in 1853. On page 211 it is recorded that, "At a
Monthly Meeting held in Caroline county, Virginia, on eighth
day of the fifth month, 1773, by a report from Camp Creek
Preparative it appears the Friends of that Meeting are desirous
there should be prohibition of Friends hiring negroes; believing
that practice to be attended with the same covetous disposition
as the purchasing of them." Weeks, on page 106, names Joseph
Hoggatt, Stringman, Nathan Stanley, Robert, John and William
Johnson as members of the Caroline Monthly Meeting who have
removed to North Carolina.
In Our Quaker Friends of Ye Olden Time, published by J. P.
Bell Book Co., appear the names of several members of the
Caroline Meeting, but little or none of the history of the same.
All of the old books and records of this old Caroline Meeting
are in the possession of Mr. John C. Thomas, 1333 Bolton street,
Baltimore, Md.
