Quaker Cemeteries

“The Narrows of the Pasquotank” – see Elizabeth City​​

New Salem – see Salem

Location: 2537 NC Hwy. 581, Pikeville, Wayne County, N.C. GPS Coordinates 35.51525, -78.06527.

Timeline:  Started ca. 1797 under Contentnea MM. Shared MM with Contentnea 1851-1856. Succeeded Contentnea ca. 1856 (Hinshaw, Weeks). 
1782:Two and 8/121 acres, including a meeting house, on eastern side of the Main Road, to Quakers, 2-9-1782, references Book 3, p. 58. 1784: Deeds and transcripts: 5-31-1784 to Nathan Pike, possibly Book 2, p. 5, Wayne County. 1-24-1842 one acre containing Naughunta meeting house to Contentnea MM and Meeting for Sufferings (NCYM), on the south side of Naughunta Swamp in Wayne County. 1861: Two and 8/121 acres containing old meeting house, except for the graveyard “say 25 yards square,” from Nahunta MM formerly Contentnea MM to Nathan Edgerton, 7-31-1861, Book 27, p. 694. 1883: About 1.5 acre from Nahunta MM to James Pike, 3-26-1883, Book 50, p. 311. (CC)

Survey: Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2337939/nahunta-cemetery

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Photos of meeting house (VF). Topographical maps (CC). See also Contentnea, Pearson-Edgerton Cemetery, Wayne Co. and Richmond Co. CC folders.

Current ownership and care: Active monthly meeting

​Location: Located 3 miles south of Siler City, in Chatham County, N.C. The meeting and cemetery were on Dixon land, which was on Tick Creek. Rough map (VF).

Timeline: 1798: Deed for parcel of land on the waters of [Tuk?] Creek to trustees, Cane Creek MM, for purpose of building a meeting house or house of worship,  6-14-1798, Chatham Co. (CC).

Survey: Cemetery Census (1957, 1992, 2010) http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/chat/cem222.htm
Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1987306/napton-cemetery

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Copies from Dixon, Ben F., The Old Stamping Grounds. Article with photo of earliest stone, The Chatham Historical Journal, Vol. 3, no. 1, April 1990. Meeting house may have been dismantled in 1985 and moved to Harnett Co. (VF)
Copies and correspondence about families, especially Dixon and Cox. (CC)

Current ownership and care: Privately owned.

Location: Goldsboro, Wayne County, N.C.

Timeline: Started ca. 1785; MM 1841 (Hinshaw, Weeks). 1782: Deed to Quakers, Book 3, p. 53. 1841: Copy of Neuse MM minutes quoting 1841 deed to NCYM to build [new] “Nuse Meeting House,” trading land to Stanton Cox excepting the old meeting house, 8 Nov. 1841, Wayne Co., Book S [or 5?], p. 381 (CC, 5 folders).

Survey: Typed ms of tombstones with family information by Ted Perkins, mostly Cox, Hollowell, Jinnett and Perkins families. Historical marker and new tombstones. (CC)  Annotated tombstones (Wayne Co. and Richmond Co. CC folder).
Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2435338/neuse-friends-meeting-house-cemetery

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Newspaper clippings. Papers and mailing list for two trust funds: Neuse Meeting Memorial Trust Fund for the care of records at the Quaker Collection (FHC), 1978; and Neuse Friends Memorial Trust, 1970-1981, establishing use of the burying ground, care of the cemetery, and possible restoration of the old meeting house. References Wayne Co. Book 15, p. 20. History, meeting house photos. (CC, 5 folders)  Old Neuse meeting house burned down 1 Dec. 1990 (CC, VF).

Last known ownership and care: (1970) Neuse Friends Memorial Trust

Location: 801 New Garden Road, Greensboro, Guilford County, N.C.

Timeline: PM 1751 under Cane Creek MM. MM 1754 (Hinshaw, Weeks). 1757: Deed of 53 acres to Thomas Hunt and successors, dated 10-19-1757, in then Rowan Co., Book B, p. 219 (mentions New Garden meeting house and cemetery). 1813: Deed for adjacent 1 acre and 70 poles to agents of New Garden MM, 1813, Guilford Co., Book L, p. 159 (PA). 1881: Deed between between New Garden Boarding School and NCYM Trustees (D). 1915: Trustees of New Garden MM to trustees of NCYM Orphanage Fund, adjacent to New Garden cemetery and Guilford College (D). 1957-1963: Changes and joint ownerships; property on west side of New Garden road deeded to New Garden MM, old meetinghouse sold to Guilford College. 1973: parcels conveyed to and traded with Friends Homes, Inc. (PA)

Survey: Dickerson, Denzel Hinshaw, New Garden Cemetery, 1754-1994 (Greensboro, NC: New Garden Cemetery Association, 1994).  Quaker Ref. BX 7648.No N48 1994
List of burials copied from Old Cemetery Records: North Carolina (VF).
FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/641038​
RootsWeb: select photos http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jentaylor/Cemetery.html#New1

Other resources at Quaker Archives: Extensive files, including cemetery articles and photos, section plat (1929). Cummings, Charles (Bill) Jr. and Pattie S. Newlin, New Garden Friends Cemetery Tombstone and Death Records of the Old Section, 1978. (VF) 

Current ownership and care: New Garden Cemetery Association, Inc.

​Location: Correspondence: at Weeksville, on the southwest corner of Salem Church Road and Griffin Swamp Road, Pasquotank County, N.C., “wooded area with four scattered sections of graves: a Quaker section, the oldest; an Episcopal section, and two family sections.” (Eastern Quarter CC file and Wayne Co. and Richmond Co. CC file)

Timeline: PM under Symon's Creek MM. Laid down 1845, meeting house sold in 1850 (Weeks).

Survey: Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2458607/newbegun-creek-quaker-cemetery

Other resources at Quaker Archives:  MS Rountree, Carlton, “Historical Tour of Quaker Sites,” 1993: history with grave surnames (CC: Eastern Quarter file and Wayne Co. and Richmond Co. file). See also Pasquotank VF. 

Last known ownership and care: Reportedly owned in 1999 by Dr. Jesse John Morris. (Eastern Quarter CC file and Wayne Co. and Richmond Co. CC file)