. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly. heir families (and several from the Monthly Meeting of Core-sound, in Carteret County, North Carolina), have arrived and arenow as sojourners in the vicinity of this meeting, and being asubject of such magnitude and importance, this meeting ap-pointed David Greave (and eleven others) to confer with them,give such advice and assistance as may be necessary to procurea settlement for Friends in the Territory Northwest of the OhioRiver and report to our next meeting. After resting in the vicinity of Westland and Red-stone, Pennsylvania, for several mo
. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly. heir families (and several from the Monthly Meeting of Core-sound, in Carteret County, North Carolina), have arrived and arenow as sojourners in the vicinity of this meeting, and being asubject of such magnitude and importance, this meeting ap-pointed David Greave (and eleven others) to confer with them,give such advice and assistance as may be necessary to procurea settlement for Friends in the Territory Northwest of the OhioRiver and report to our next meeting. After resting in the vicinity of Westland and Red-stone, Pennsylvania, for several months, this companymoved on across the Ohio River, just north of Wheel-ing, into the Northwest Territory, the Ninth month,1800, three years before Ohio became a State. Six milesup a small stream that empties into the Ohio River atBridgeport, they spent their first First-Day—not havingomitted their meeting for worship on this day—upon alog they held the first Quaker Meeting ever held in theNorthwest Territory. Afterwards they held it in the. &mS (44) The Quakers; Their Migration to the Upper Ohio, etc. 45 newly-built cabin of Jonathan Taylor, and later builta new log meeting-house and called it Concord. To-day, near this site, is a Quaker Meeting-house, holdingregular meetings in the village, now called Colerain, onthe highway between Wheeling and Cadiz. By the closeof the year 1800, it is said that more than eight hundredFriends had moved into the Ohio Country. Borden Stanton, one of the leaders of the new settle-ment, in answering an inquiry from Friends at Wrights-borough, Georgia, writes the following letter: Concord, Ohio. Twenty-fifth of Fifth Month, Friends: Having understood by WilHam Patten and William Hogan,from your parts, that a number among you have had somethoughts and turnings of mind respecting a removal to thiscountry . . and ... as it has been the lot of a number of usto undertake the work a little before you, I thought, (to give) atrue statement
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