John Hussey

  General Notes:

In Ancestors and Descendants of Jehu Cox, by Wayne D. Stout, Stout explains that Warrington, York County, Pennsylvania, a live Quaker community, was the home of the Cox, Hussey, and Garretson families in 1745. These clans had stuck together for generations. Many intermarriages had cemented the tribe into a solid unit. In about 1755 the three families moved to Cane Creek, Orange County, North Carolina, a distance of 300 miles. Cane Creek was a real Mecca for the Society of Friends. These Quakers hoped to establish a new Zion amongst the slave holders of the South. A Quaker Meeting was organized and a progressive community sprang into existence. Like the Mormons in Jackson County, the Quakers soon found themselves surrounded by intolerant neighbors. The slave holders looked with suspicion on these strange people whose religion opposed slavery. Suspicion led to antagonism and conflicts. Finally, persecution became so violent the Quakers abandoned Cane Creek and settled in eastern Tennessee, Kentucky, and western Virginia. However, from the Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, we know our line moved from the Cane Creek MM to the New Garden MM in 1772 where John died in 1781. His son Jediah moved the line to Back Creek MM, Randolph County, in 1796. It was his grandson Thomas (son of Jediah) who took our line from Randolph County, North Carolina, to the White Lick MM in Morgan County, Indiana, in 1832.

John married Mary Jessop, daughter of Thomas Jessop and Sarah Small, on 29 May 1766 in Cane Creek MM, Orange, North Carolina, USA.^{1 2} (Mary Jessop was born on 5 Dec 1740 in Guilford, North Carolina, USA and died on 10 Nov 1821 in Guilford, North Carolina, USA.)