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42 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY LOCAL LANDMARK APPLICATION <br /> in a 1768 instrument, which adds "that piece of Land whereon the meeting house & other <br /> buildings now stands" [sic]. The five trustees listed in 1768 were Joseph Maddock(who was <br /> formally resigning at that time), James Thompson, Samuel Chambers, Francis Wilkinson, and <br /> Daniel Cloud.23 <br /> The early 1760s continued to be a time of progress for the Eno Quakers. Both Joseph Maddock <br /> and Mary Miller Jackson were consistently recognized at Quarterly Meetings and Yearly <br /> Meetings as area Quaker leaders. The Eno Quakers, hoping to advance to the next stage of <br /> Friends meetings, petitioned in 1761 to become a preparative meeting that would empower them <br /> to resolve disciplinary matters. Initially, the Western Quarterly Meeting denied their request, but <br /> upon the Eno Meeting renewing its request, the Quarterly Meeting gave its permission, and on <br /> August 19, 1762, the Eno Preparative Meeting of Friends was established. Joseph Maddock and <br /> John Embree were selected as overseers of the Meeting, while Mary Jackson and Deborah <br /> Stubbs became the women's overseers.24 <br /> Despite progress made by the Eno Quakers, it seems that they exhibited problems, as well. One <br /> was a worrisome lack of diligence, dating back to the early years of their formal organization and <br /> continuing throughout the remainder of their existence. On two different occasions in 1756, <br /> notes in the Cane Creek Women's Minutes (April 3, 1756, and December 4, 1756) called out the <br /> need to send a pair of women to visit the Eno Friends "in order to stir them up to more Deligence <br /> "Engstrom, 12-14. <br /> za Engstrom,25. <br /> 20 <br />