Individual Details

Symons Creek MM, Pasquotank, NC
At a Monthly Meeting held in Pasqt at Symons Creek the 7th day of 8th Month 1731, John Pike and Abigail Overman appeared and Declared their Intention of marriage with Each other it being the first time therefore friends appointed Aaron Morris and Daniel Mayo to Inspect into the Young man & clearness with respect to marriage, Ingagements with any Other woman etc. And bring their Report to Next Monthly Meeting

Pasquotank MM: John was liberated to marry Abigail Overman, 4th day, 9th month, 1731 [Quaker dating].
At a Monthly Meeting held in Pasqt. at Hansbegun Creek at 4th day of 9th Month 1731. Friends Met to Inquire into the affair of Said Meeting. John Pike & Abigail Overman "....are left to there lyberty to take Each other in Marriage when they please".
Cane Creek MM: John Pike son of Samuel and Jean was born 14th day, 4th month, 1702 in Pasquotank Co; He died 15th day, 1st month, 1774, aged between 71 and 72 years. Buried Cane Creek; there is a monument in the cemetery - however, it is said the stone was moved several times.

About 1735, the family moved to Westchester in Fairfax Co VA. He was granted a letter of transfer from Pasquotank to a new settlement on the Opecking River near Martinsbury in Frederick Co. John received the following land from his father's estate, but transferred it to his brothers.

Pasquotank County, NC Record of Deeds, 1700-1751, compiled by Gwen Boyer Bjorkman; Heritage Books, Inc., 1990
p. 355-6
DB B, p.532-3 19 Oct 1744 John Pike of Frederick Co VA fell Heir by Birthright at the death of my Father a Tract called Half-way Tree. 325 acres. Line that was Matthew Raisins'. 162 1/2 acres on NE side of tract sold to Saml Pike for £10- a line run out between Samuel Pike, purchaser, and Benjamin Pike, Purchaser of the remain part of the afsd tract. Signed: John Pike. Wit: John Reed, Aaron Morris, Peter Symons. Proved by affirmation of Aaron Morris, Jan Court 1744/5.
p.356
DB B; 533-4 19 Oct 1744 John Pike of Frederick Co VA. Half-way Tree, 325 acres, line that was Matthew Reasons. Sold to Benjamin Pike for £10, 162 1/2 acres....etc.

DB B, p.1 13 Jan 1746/7 Samuel Pike to Joseph Pritchard for £208. His Moiety or half part of 325 acres of Halfway Tree Land, being same that John Pike of Fred. Co in VA sold to me. To have been divided between sd Samuel Pike & Benjmain Pike his Brother but hath not been done. Wherein Samuel Pike now dwells on the NE side of the Tract. Sarah Pike, wife of Samuel. Wit: Benjn. Pritchard, Sarah Pritchard. Ack Jan Court 1746. Reg. Jan 1746/7.

The family moved to the new Cane Creek settlement about 1749. Abigail was a Quaker minister and it would have been normal for her to move to new areas and lend support.

According to the book, "Cane Creek, Mother of Meetings" put out by the North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends, 1995, it states: "Friends arrived in the Cane Creek area as early as 1749. One of the first acts of business of the newly formed Cane Creek Meeting was to record the births of four children in that year: Nathan, tenth child of John and Abigail Overman Pike." "Also on the same page: 'Since the settlement covered such a wide area it would be impossible to name the thirty families mentioned in the Minutes, but in the immediate Cane Creek area we find these here before 1751: Joseph and Charity Wells, John and Abigail Overman Pike, John and Rachel Wright...' "Also same page (page 14) 'Land grants in the area were recorded as early as 1749. Anthony Chamness was granted 490 acres of land on 'Cain Creek' and John Pike was granted 280 acres, also on Cane Creek.' "On page 15: 'John and Abigail Pike were two more of the early settlers. Abigail was a minister, and it was not unusual for them to travel to new places and lend their support to the establishment of new Friends communities and meetings. They had left Pasquotank County in eastern North Carolina in 1738 to travel to Frederick County, Virginia, to assist with the Hopewell Meeting, where they remained for eleven years (Griffin 'History' 2)'. "Continuing on the book says, 'It is possible that the Pikes heard about the new settlement on Cane Creek from families moving into the Hopewell area. Many of these families planned only to remain at Hopewell for a few years, then continue farther south. John and Abigail came to the Cane Creek settlement with their eight children about 1749. Their certificates of membership from Hopewell were placed with the Carver's Creek Meeting in Bladen County, North Carolina. This monthly meeting held the certificates of not only the Pikes but others in the settlement until the establishment of a monthly meeting at Cane Creek. This was an accepted practice of the day. Many Quaker pioneers, with their staunch faith, did not want to be away from the care of a monthly meeting even if that meeting were many miles away.' "There is more in this book about Abigail and Rachel Wright riding horseback to Perquimans two hundred miles away to ask for a meeting to be set up at Cane Creek. It also goes on to tell of her involvement in New Garden MM."

Although they moved, it seems that they returned to Pasquotank where John paid taxes in 1769.
On 17 Feb 1773, he was received by request into the Pasquotank MM.

His will was written 30 Mar 1771, proved Aug. 1774. He named sons, John, Samuel & Nathan (youngest); six daughters Sarah Piggott, Anne Hughes, Susan Lee, Elizabeth Stuart, Ruth Wisner, and Rachel Williams. Executors were wife Abigail and son John. Witnesses were Thomas Hill, Priscilla Pike and Obediah R___

Cane Creek Monthly Meeting:
"John Pike son of Samuel and Jean Pike of Pasquotank County, North Carolina, Departed this Life the 16 Aug 1774, and Buried at Cane Creek friends Burying Ground

John is likely buried Cane Creek Monthly Meeting Cemetery, Snow Camp, Alamance, NC, but he shares a memorial marker with Abigail at Muddy Creek Friends Cemetery, Kernersville, Forsyth, NC.

Birth	14 Jun 1702	Pasquotank County, North Carolina
Marriage	4 Sep 1731	Pasquotank County, North Carolina - ABIGAIL Overman
Death	15 Jan 1774	Cane Creek, Orange County, North Carolina

Spouse	ABIGAIL Overman (1709 - 1781)
Child	Sarah Pike (1733 - 1811)
Child	Ann Pike (1735 - )
Child	Susanna Pike (1737 - 1827)
Child	Elizabeth Pike (1739 - 1816)
Child	John Pike (1741 - 1782)
Child	Samuel Pike (1741 - 1825)
Child	Ruth Pike (1744 - 1795)
Child	RACHEL Pike (1746 - 1789)
Child	Nathan Pike (1749 - 1791)

Father	SAMUEL Pike (1678 - 1718)
Mother	JEAN\JANE [Pike] (1680 - 1744)
Sibling	Samuel Pike (1705 - 1785)
Sibling	Ann Pike (1706 - )
Sibling	Benjamin Pike (1707 - 1785)
Sibling	Susannah Pike (1712 - )