Posted: 9:23 AM - Sep 14, 2002
I hope this 'takes'. I see I am not 'logged in'. I've changed my email address. I'll plunge on anyway.According to Hinshaw Vol. 6 page 611
"Goose Creek Monthly Meeting Locations: Goose Creek Monthly Meeting, Loudon Co. VA, is located nine miles west of Leesburg, 45 miles of Alexandria and 8 miles south of Waterford, 2 miles south from "Purcell Stations" of Washington & Old Dominion Railroad"
This is the meeting house were the papers were filed for our Jacob McKay Sr. to marry is third wife. Hinshaw states that they have a well kept cemetery around the Meeting House.
I know I have seen the historical marker on Rt 15 on the way to visit my aunt in Frederick Co. MARYLAND. I do plan to visit the location end of this month or next when my aunt & I can find time to met in Leesburg, VA for lunch. We have been doing this for about six years now.
The other Quaker Meeting House referred to as the Fairfax Monthly Meeting, I will see what name is attached to the building site. I am calling it South Fork, near Lincoln, Loudoun Co. VA. Also records found in Hinshaw Vol 6 p. 463. It was part of the original Goose Creek Meeting and set up on the 30th of 8th month 1745. This meeting was located near the South Fork of Goose Creek where the town of Lincoln, VA is now located. According to my map of Loudoun Co. VA, there is a historical cemetery located in this location named "Goose Creek Cemetery".
I am looking foward to visiting both these locations to see what is recorded on each historical marker. I plan to use one of those use & throw away camera. Michael let me know if you do not have pictures of these houses. I will, of course, take notes as to the surnames buried at each location.
I am working with our distant cousin Shirley Sparks dealing with her Hicks family of Loudoun/Fauquier Co. VA, now I am not sure which meeting house her Hicks & Gibson (still not proven she has this surname) were members.
Dee Ann, I have now proved the Gibson-Hicks marriage, via the Quaker Encyclopedia, Hicks family bible, census, deeds, & "Jackson Family Record". Rachel Gibson married oum..isn't that the code? The reference is an oblique one; but certain. Rachel descends from the Quaker Gibsons & Jacksons who first settled in Chester Co. PA. These Jacksons originally migrated like this: Lancashire, England to Ireland to PA to VA. This particular Gibson family m'd in Ireland and came with the Isaac Jackson (son of Anthony) family to America.
Joseph Gibson m'd Aice Jackson in Ireland. They had a certificate from Sadsbury to Exeter, then to New Garden MM in 1748, for Themselves and children:
Joseph, Rebecca, John, James & Moses.
To they moved to Bradford MM in 1760. Joseph Gibson, the father died in 1764. 1767, Alice obtained a certificate from Bradford to Fairfax in 1767 for herself and dau, Rebecca. The other children subsequently settled with their mother. Alice lived to be 84. The Jackson Family Record says Alice (Jackson) was born 8mo, 29, 1703 (Ireland).
Rachel Gibson did marry Israel Hicks, son of Kimble Hicks Sr. Rachel & Israel Hicks' son & only child was Kimble Gibson Hicks, who lived at Amandale. (Still standing and is now in Loudoun Co, very near the Fauquier Co. border.) I have a copy of Israel Hicks' Bible. Since Israel met an early death, they only had one child. I have found no indication that Rachel (Gibson) remarried.
Shirley
sstarks@tampabay.rr.com