¹ The Quaker Act of 1662 made it illegal to refuse to take the Oath of Allegiance to the Crown.

² The Delaware Valley is a region in eastern Pennsylvania and the surrounding states of Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey.

³ Frank Jacobs, “How four British migrations defined America,” The Big Think, September 26, 2020, https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/four-folkways.

⁴ Mill Creek Hundred, Delaware History and Genealogy Project, accessed August 21, 2022, https://rb.gy/rwkhlq.

⁵ Letitia would later marry William Aubrey of London and return to England. Sales of her land were handled by a third party.

⁶ The 1726 brick date-stone with William’s initials can be viewed from inside a room from a later addition. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

⁷ Shawn Weigel, Harvesting Hockessin’s history, Delaware Online, March 21, 2016, https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2016/03/21/harvesting-hockessin-s-history/32366228007/

⁸ Legend has it today’s Snow Camp, NC community takes its name from an early hunting party’s experience of heavy winter snow at their Cane Creek area encampment.

⁹ Bobbie Teague, Cane Creek Mother of Meetings, Greensboro NC Meeting of Friends,1995, p.12

¹0 The wagon draws its name from the Conestoga River area of Lancaster County, PA.

¹1 William Dollarhide, Map guide to American migration routes, 1735-1815, Bountiful, Heritage Quest, 1997, pp. 6-7.

¹2 Simon Dixon’s certificate from the monthly meeting of Newark in Kennet Pennsylvania was accepted by Cane Creek in December 1751.

¹3 Deed records show the William Cox property sold to “John Dixson” May 11,1755 “excepting 1⁄2 acres & 26 perches where the meeting house stands.” John Dixon was the husband of William’s oldest daughter, Rebecca, and son of William’s neighbor Henry Dixon.

¹4 Scott Garber, Carolina Charter of 1663, North Carolina History Project, accessed September 5, 2022, https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/carolina-charter-of-1663/

¹5 Granville to George Williams was recorded May 2,1753, but surveyed almost four years earlier on May 17, 1749.

¹6 These families would join Simon Dixon as early members of the Cane Creek Friends Meeting in 1751.

¹7 Husband, a surveyor and farmer in Maryland prior to moving to North Carolina, was related by marriage to the Cox family.

¹8 Sandy Creek rises near Climax in Guilford County, then flows south for 19 miles to join Deep River.

¹9  McPherson’s tract was 486 acres, Comer’s 370 aces, and Scarlett’s 349 acres.

²0 The road name refers to Peter Youngblood, a settler of German descent that migrated with his family from Maryland perhaps as early as 1751 He would later sell a portion of his land to William Cox.

²1Mac Whatley, Wandering Through the Piedmont, accessed September 29, 2022, http://piedmontwanderings.blogspot.com/2009/01/cox-mysteries-revealed.html

²2 Theodore R. Hazen, The History of Flour Milling In Early America, accessed September 22, 2022, https://www.angelfire.com/journal/millrestoration/history.html

²3 Warren Dixon, Cox’s Mill Encampment at Buffalo Ford on Deep River- July 1780, accessed September 22, 2022, https://www.randolphlibrary.org/hlpc/coxmilladdenda.pdf.

²4 The Mill Creek Meeting lapsed in the 1770s, probably because the area was in turmoil while under the control of Tory leader Col. David Fanning.

²5 Teague, Cane Creek Mother of Meetings, p. 27.

²6 Cape Fear is the only major river in North Carolina that flows directly into the Atlantic Ocean. (Rivers such as the Neuse flow into sounds.)

²7 Mac Whatley notes that one-third of the population of Indiana in 1850 had come from North Carolina, many from Randolph County. Randolph County, Indiana, is named for this county.