George Fox Dared to Go to Bennett's Creek
In 1654, King Charles II granted eight proprietors authority over an immense region south of Virginia, and within a year had appointed a governor and six-man advisory council to the Albemarle River. This is how the province of North Carolina was born. Then, in 1672, a Quaker missionary by the name of George Fox borrowed a rotten canoe from a captain who resided on Edenton Bay and spent several days paddling to Bennett's Creek. George Fox was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. Fox traveled Great Britain expressing his religious views and was persecuted to the extent that he came to America and visited the low countries. . . . more. . .Index to North Carolina Wills and Estates
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