12 Jan 1784: Menallen Monthly Meeting minutes: "The Women's Meeting informs this that Mary daughter of Finly McGrew hath left the parts in a disorderly manner with a young man in the night season. Which being considered in this Meeting wee appoint James Watson and Jonathan Wright to assist them in writing to some friends of Hopewell Monthly Meeting to treat with her on behalf of this meeting and endeavour to inform them selves whether or no or in what manner they were married." (Based on subsequent entries it appears that Mary McGrew eloped with Jacob Ong and these entries place the couple at the Quaker settlement in the northern Shenandoah Valley centered at Hopewell Meeting in Frederick County, Virginia near the Berkeley County (now WV) line.)
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