. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly. was born in Pennsylvaniaand went to North Carolina about the year 1754. He was, there-fore, not a young man when he preached with remarkable powerto the Quakers of the Southland. He visited Wrightsborough,Georgia, and Bush River, South Carolina, in 1803, and urgedFriends to leave their homes. He prophesied an internecinewar within the lives of the children then living. Bloodshed anddestruction were to follow. The cause of this devastating war-fare, which he foretold in vivid language, was slavery. TheFriends at Bush River had erected, a short time
. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly. was born in Pennsylvaniaand went to North Carolina about the year 1754. He was, there-fore, not a young man when he preached with remarkable powerto the Quakers of the Southland. He visited Wrightsborough,Georgia, and Bush River, South Carolina, in 1803, and urgedFriends to leave their homes. He prophesied an internecinewar within the lives of the children then living. Bloodshed anddestruction were to follow. The cause of this devastating war-fare, which he foretold in vivid language, was slavery. TheFriends at Bush River had erected, a short time previously, acommodious and substantial meeting-house which they had ex-pected to occupy for many years. To the number of 500, theyhad frequently assembled there for worship. On one occasion,when they had gathered there, Dicks concluded a stirring appealwith the words, Oh, Bush River! Bush River, how hath thybeauty faded away and gloomy darkness eclipsed thy day. Hetraveled southward repeating his startling prophecy to Friends Vol. a goo O rt (50) The Quakers; Their Migration to the Upper Ohio, etc. 51 who heard with alarm. The result is a tribute to his power ofprophetic appeal. In 1800, the Quakers had become well estab-lished in South Carolina and Georgia. It is recorded that theycould have been numbered by thousands. By 1809, nearly allof them had departed for the West. They sold their lands,worth from ten to twenty dollars an acre, for from three to sixdollars, and departed never to return. They came in greatnumbers to this section of our state. Among those who arepresent today are certainly the descendants of many who heardit, for no less an authority than Stephen B. Weeks tells us thatFriends by our family name came to eastern Ohio. Many prophecies of the end of the world and other direcalamities have been unfulfilled and forgotten; but the prophecyof Zachariah Dicks had an awful fulfillment in the cataclysm ofthe Civil War, which our ancestors, who fled at
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