An organization of members (Friends) is a Meeting.

The building for worship is a meetinghouse.

Laid down -- Discontinued -- used especially in reference to a meeting which was discontinued by permission (authority) of the Superior Meeting.

Preparative Meeting -- a business meeting to digest information and prepare matters of business, as occasion may require, which may be proper to lay before the Monthly Meeting.

Quarterly Meeting -- a business meeting of higher rank, including several Monthly Meetings; meeting every three months, sometimes at the same place; sometimes alternating or circulating, between two or more places.

Yearly Meeting -- an annual meeting of business and oversight, which receives reports of the activities of the Monthly Meetings under its authority through the several Quarterly Meetings - summarizes and annually prints its proceedings. These are distributed to all the families of the Yearly Meeting.

Indulged Meeting -- a Meeting of worship only; granted by a Monthly Meeting to a group of Friends within its verge, who were unable because of distance, bad weather or bad roads to attend the regular meetings, granting them permission to hold religious services in their own neighborhood in a home or some other place.

Preparative Meetings are accountable to the Monthly Meeting.

Monthly Meetings to the Quarterly Meeting.

Quarterly Meetings to the Yearly Meeting.

Thomas Branson Sr., of New Jersey, leased the four acres for the Quaker meetinghouse and burying ground on Crooked Run. It is thought that he never lived in Virginia. He left his land on the "Shannandow River" to his two sons, Thomas, Jr. and Jacob; both of whom added to their holdings. Another son, Lionel, also came to Virginia. The site of his home is not known. His son, Lionel, Jr., cut the wagon road from this section over the mountains to Lost River (now West Virginia) and made his home on land inherited by his wife.

It is likely that Hopewell Meeting, the Quaker Society still active north of Winchester, had established an "Indulged Meeting" at Crooked Run by 1753. It is also likely that it met in homes of the members for several years for it was not until August 4, 1760, that the Hopewell records state "The Friends living on Crooked Run . . . lately having built a new Meeting House," . . .

The Crooked Run Meeting was "laid down" in 1810 for lack of attendance. In 1828 the building, or buildings as there may have been a schoolhouse also, were mentioned as being in poor condition; therefore, they had likely fallen down 60 years or more before the first Presbyterian Church was built in 1893, on or very near the site.

The stream at the foot of the hill west of the present Nineveh Presbyterian Church is Crooked Run.

The Nineveh Presbyterian Church, which had met in the Zion Baptist Church at Nineveh since its organization in 1882, bought in 1892 two acres adjoining and to the east of the Quaker Burying Ground, about one mile south of the Zion Baptist Church. On the western line of this two-acre plot they built their first church.

There is one post remaining of the hitching-rack standing near the northeast corner of the church to remind us that it was many years after the first church was built, 1893, before the automobile came into general use.

The walnut tree standing now - near the outside steps - was heavily damaged by the fire, which destroyed the first church, 1913. The church bell was warped and rendered useless.

The Society of Quakers kept accurate and thorough records. Surnames found among witness at marriages at Crooked Run Meeting are: