The Town of Hertford

Bi-Centennial

1758-1958

and

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Historic Data

of Perquimans County

Perquimans County

Quakers

"When the word spread that this was a place where people were able to worship in freedom ...,  Quakers in southern Virginia came to Albemarle in increasing numbers. They were an industrious, plain, sober, and hardy people who had already endured much hardship and privation. "