History Of The Creek Meeting

Henry Hull, twelve years old and living in Stanford at that time, wrote in his memoirs, “This country then presented a wild and uncultivated appearance, only a small part of the land in the neighborhood being clear and many of the fields enclosed with the logs which had been cut off them. There were two families of Friends near us, viz., Benjamin Hoag and Paul Upton from New England, and most of the other inhabitants were of the rougher sort. A small meeting of Friends was held about four miles from us in a log house belonging to Paul Upton, who with his wife Phebe Upton, have been valuable members of our society from their first settlement here and were truly a nursing father and nursing mother to many who have been brought forth in religious service.” Prior to the day’s service, these “raw, rustic looking people” engaged in lively disputes about the war.

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