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38 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY LOCAL LANDMARK APPLICATION <br /> around Hillsborough. It was in the area to the northeast that the Eno Quakers chose to build their <br /> meeting house, school, and burying ground," <br /> The names of many of the Quaker settlers are known, but little or nothing is known about most <br /> of them. However, among the earliest were surveyor James Taylor along with his brother, <br /> Robert, and father, John, who left the Exeter Friends Meeting in Pennsylvania as early as 1748. <br /> James Taylor received a land grant in the North Carolina Province in 1753. Thomas Stubbs Jr. <br /> received a grant for 250 acres in 1751, one of the earliest Quaker land grants." <br /> Quakers often arrived in family groups, and one of the first and largest of these was the Isaac <br /> Jackson family, who was officially recorded as presenting their credentials at the Cane Creek <br /> Meeting on December 1, 175 1. Isaac Jackson and his wife, Mary Miller, brought their children <br /> as well as their siblings, in-laws, and other family members to North Carolina, and by 1800 the <br /> tight-knit family group numbered over one hundred persons who were spread out over hundreds <br /> of acres in the Eno River Valley. They formed the nucleus of the Quaker settlement northeast of <br /> the county seat. The Jacksons were known for being independent and outspoken, and over time <br /> at least eight of them—both men and women—were disowned by the Cane Creek Friends <br /> Meeting for behavior contrary to Quaker discipline, such as "bearing arms in a warlike manner," <br /> marrying out of unity," or "aiding the Regulators." By contrast, in 1780 Mary Miller Jackson <br /> became a certified minister of the Society of Friends.17 <br /> 's Engstrom, 3-4. <br /> �s Engstrom,6-7. <br /> 17 Engstrom, 8, 10. <br /> 16 <br />