Quaker Colony ▪ Stanton and Borden settled on Harlowe and Core creeks.
Detail from 1798 North Carolina Survey ▪ Jonathan Price
While Beaufort was still in its infancy, Rhode Island Quakers, William Borden and Henry Stanton, settled a few miles north of Beaufort, built shipyards, as well as sawmills, and employed shipwrights from their home state.
After a unsuccessful attempt to produce duck cloth for sails, William Borden sailed to Beaufort about 1732 and settled his family on the west side of Harlowe Creek, where he built a shipyard and sawmill. He became active in public affairs and bought a great deal of property, including land on Bogue Banks.
The first Quaker meeting in Carteret County was organized on August 1, 1733, at the home of William Borden on Harlowe Creek. Until a meeting house could be erected, subsequent meetings were held at the home of Henry Stanton, a minister of the Society of Friends. In 1736, Quakers from Rhode Island sent "60 pounds Rhoadisland money" toward the construction of the Core Sound Meeting House. . . .
The Old Quaker Cemetery, behind Tuttle's Grove Church, is also known as the Core Sound Meeting Burial Ground. Many graves are marked with ballast stones, cedar stakes, or brick mounds. . . .
After a unsuccessful attempt to produce duck cloth for sails, William Borden sailed to Beaufort about 1732 and settled his family on the west side of Harlowe Creek, where he built a shipyard and sawmill. He became active in public affairs and bought a great deal of property, including land on Bogue Banks.
The first Quaker meeting in Carteret County was organized on August 1, 1733, at the home of William Borden on Harlowe Creek. Until a meeting house could be erected, subsequent meetings were held at the home of Henry Stanton, a minister of the Society of Friends. In 1736, Quakers from Rhode Island sent "60 pounds Rhoadisland money" toward the construction of the Core Sound Meeting House. . . .
The Old Quaker Cemetery, behind Tuttle's Grove Church, is also known as the Core Sound Meeting Burial Ground. Many graves are marked with ballast stones, cedar stakes, or brick mounds. . . .
