Growing up I considered
myself a mix of South and Scott. If asked, I could have come up with my
grandparents’ parents’ last names, I think. CE South, or Granddad South as my
father Dan called him, had two parents, of course, and a wife. Working back to
CE South’s grandparents, we have covered only the family lines that connect to
his South father’s line. CE’s mother was Priscilla Adeline Vestal South. So as
we cover the Vestals and all the lines we can find that flowed into her family,
know that our goal is their relation to Priscilla Adeline Vestal.
I am in contact with some
living Vestals and want to give them credit for sharing some wonderful pictures
and information very generously: Larry Sells, husband of Joan Vestal Sells, and
Mindy Vestal Miller. Both these individuals have proven invaluable in my Vestal
work.
We have literally hundreds
of explained DNA matches with the Vestals between the five of us in our charted
group: me, Bob, Michael Wilson-South, Elaine Lee, and Lee South. This group is
going to grow soon since Amy Faye Webb Faircloth Jacques has sent DNA off to
Ancestry. That will give us two of CE South’s grandchildren, Amy and Lee, and
four great grandchildren. I am going to start with the Vestal paternal lines and
work my way across the Vestal half of CE South’s fan chart to Priscilla Adeline Vestal’s
maternal lines. And eventually I'll add in the Wrights and Rosenbalms. It's not over til it's over, cousins.
The Vestal Line
William Vestal or Vestall (1667-1701) 7xggf
Immigrant from England and his wife Alice Glover Brunsden (1663-1709) 7xggm
Immigrant from England
Family tradition is that
two brothers, William and Daniel Vestal (or Vestall) left from London, England,
in 1683. Daniel died at sea, and William, sixteen years old, arrived in 1683,
the year after William Penn had founded Philadelphia and opened the way for
over 2000 mostly Quaker immigrants to come to the colony. He married a Quaker widow, Alice Glover Brunsden, in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1692. Alice had three children with her from her
first marriage, and one of the earlier documents mentioning William Vestal is
his appearance in 1692 before the court to assume guardianship for these Brunsden
children. Alice, according to documents of the Brandywine Baptist Church at
Chadds Ford in Chester County, Pennsylvania, was baptized in 1698, a big
departure for a Quaker. This was likely due to the split among the Quakers caused
by George Keith at that time. The record for the court sessions in 1694 states that
William was appointed Constable for Birmingham Township, but their home was at Westtown
Township on Brandywine Creek until about 1737. There is a deed record in 1694
for one hundred acres of land in Concord, a settlement now in Delaware County,
but at that time in Chester County. In 1696 there is a deed for 216 acres on
Brandywine Creek for John Buffington and William Vestall; 1701 the two
purchased two more tracts for 49 acres and 169 acres, the smaller tract of 49
acres for Vestall. William had an adjoining tract from 1699 for 125 acres. Most
of this land came from original grants given to William Penn. The family experienced
a great tragedy in 1699 when one of William’s children, Sarah, drowned in a
pond. William wrote his will in 1702, leaving the property he occupied to his
wife for the remainder of her life, then to his son William who was to pay at
the time he comes into possession some money and cattle to the other children. This
will is on record in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Alice was born in Ichingwell,
Kingsclerc, Hampshire, England to George Glover and Alice Lamboll Glover. She
was raised as a Quaker, her uncle William Lamboll being well acquainted with
George Fox, one of the founders of The Friends. In fact William Lamboll had purchased
625 acres from Penn before Penn sailed for America. Lamboll had gifted one
hundred acres to Alice when she arrived in the colonies with her first husband
John Brunsden and her parents, George Glover and Alice Lamboll Glover (8xgg
parents). The uncle, William Lamboll, never came to the colonies. When Alice
married William Vestal, she was condemned at Meeting for marrying outside the
Society of Friends, but she was accepted back after a public apology to the
meeting. Alice and her parents and at least one of Alice’s Brunsden children
Hannah left the Society of Friends (Quakers) to join the Baptists, most likely
7th Day Baptists. Alice Vestal died in 1709, not long after William.
The Glovers outlived their daughter. The Vestals and Glovers all lived in
Chester County, Pennsylvania, where there was a Society of Friends meeting already
established when Penn arrived in America.
A Little Bonus Information on Quakers,
Keithians, and Baptists in Pennsylvania
In the Reformation era of
the Christian church, various groups desired different levels of change from
the once-established Catholic Church. In England, Henry VII sought to sever
ties with Rome and its hierarchy of bishops convents and monasteries, but he actually
wanted little change in the Church once it became the Church of England. As
people wanted more control over their worship, some became Puritans who wanted
the Church to change, but as time went on, they saw that becoming Separate from
the Church was realistically the only course of action. These Separatists were
forced to leave England for Holland and the colonies or suffer imprisonment and
sometimes death for their beliefs.
In the mid-1600s some of
the Protestants breaking away from the Church of England began to preach that Christ
has come to teach the people Himself, and that no church structure is necessary
for establishing a relationship with God through Christ. They believed in the
universal priesthood and that all believers were capable of studying the Bible
and having a relationship with God. They focused their private lives on
developing behavior and speech that reflected the purity and light of God. They
were known for their use of thee as a pronoun, refusal to participate in war,
plain dress, refusal to swear oaths, opposition to slavery, and sobriety. They
were often successful in commerce. They were also quicker to allow women equal
status in worship. They were most commonly known as Friends of the Truth or
Friends of the Light. Today most Quakers have a planned service and a chosen
minister, but there are still those Quakers whose services are mostly quiet as
they wait until someone is moved to speak; usually there are among them “recorded
ministers” known for their gift of spoken ministry.
One of the earliest English
Quakers was George Fox. The name for Quakers came, some believe, from Fox
admonishing the magistrate Gervase Bennet who had called Fox to court for blasphemy,
telling him he should tremble before the Lord. Quaker became a sort of derisory
name that eventually many of the Friends grew accustomed to use for themselves.
Fox set up a system of Meetings that were fairly autonomous; this helped avoid
a cult of personality and ensured the Society of Friends would outlive Fox. One
of Fox’s close friends was William Lamboll, whose niece Alice Glover married
William Vestall as her second husband in the colonies. By 1660 there were over
50,000 Quakers in England. During the
1700s the Quakers became more inward looking spiritually and less active in conversion
of others. Marrying outside the Society of Friends was outlawed. There were a
number of splits among the Quakers, two of which were the Hicksite and Orthodox
split and the Keithian split.
George Keith was born in
Scotland to Presbyterian (Protestant) parents in 1639. In the 1660s he joined
the Society of Friends and accompanied George Fox, William Penn, and Robert
Barclay (founder of Barclay Bank) to the Netherlands and Germany in 1677. Barclay
was made a non-resident proprietor of New Jersey; Keith traveled to the
colonies on his behalf to become Surveyor-General. He was the first to make the
line between East Jersey and West Jersey [go all the way back to Thomas South
in this blog for more on that.]. In 1691 he began to feel that the Quaker
settlers had strayed too far from other Protestant faiths, and he broke with the
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. One of the biggest differences he held was belief
that a Christian should be baptized. Keithian Baptists, sometimes called Quaker
Baptists, kept the language,dress, and manners of Quakers but insisted on
baptism. Keith published some papers against slavery, one of the earliest in
America to do so. Keith did not stay to nourish his Baptists. He left the colonies
and was ordained a minister in the Church of England in 1700, but his influence
on the Brandywine Baptists has lasted into our time, with that church still
active today, although with its half-Quaker roots perhaps not very prominent.
Some of his followers returned to the Quakers.
The Hicksite and Orthodox
split in the early 1800s was both religious and socioeconomic. As many Quakers
became more urban and wealthy in cities like Philadelphia, there was a split by
the the more agrarian, rural, and less affluent Quakers who believed that the
market economy of the more urban areas was corrupting, and that spirituality was
sacrificed by those who wanted the Quakers to more resemble other Protestant
groups. The Hicksites believed Bible study secondary to the individual
cultivation of the light within. Genealogists studying Quaker records which
provide good records of births, marriages, and deaths, sometimes have to choose
between Hicksite records or Orthodox Quaker records.
Some Interesting Maps
for the Vestals
Chester County Map
This is the SE portion of Chester County
where Westtown is located. It was the home of William Vestall. Note that Birmingham
is south and slightly west of Westtown.
William Glover Vestal (1692-1745) 6xggf We have 142 explained DNA matches with William Glover Vestal
and his wife Elizabeth Mercer Woodward Vestal as the common ancestors.
William Glover Vestal was
born to William Vestall and Alice Glover Brunsden Vestal in Birmingham township
of Chester County, Pennsyslvania, He married a widow, Elizabeth Mercer Woodward
in 1716 at Westtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1716. He was associated with the
Kennett Monthly Meeting of Quakers. He lived on the Brandywine Creek land willed
to his mother and then to him, and is on the tax rolls for Bradford Township, Pennsylvania
from 1715-1726. He may have moved first to Maryland, but we know that by 1734
he purchased a large holding in Orange County, Virginia, which became Frederick
County, Virginia. He and his son John began to build on this land, just east of
the present town of Charleston, West Virginia. While building a stone house,
they were attacked by Indians and ran across the Shenandoah River to a
mountain. They brought a yellow rock back with them to mark where they had left
off building. According to Norris’s 1890 book on the history of Frederick County,
that house was still standing at the time with an inscription on one end with
faint writing either Vest, Vesta, or Vestal. Norris further states that in the List of Surveys made by George Washington
for Lord Fairfax, there are three mentions of the name Vestall. In 1742 a
contract was made between William Vestal and four others for the construction
of an iron bloomery for the making of bar iron.
William Glover Vestal is
perhaps best known for his iron bloomery:
“said
to be the first one erected east of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia (one
mile east of Mechanicsville, West Virginia). It was in operation until after
the Civil War. Upon the death of William Vestal in 1745 this land and the
Vestal interests in the bloomery were taken over by his son John. When the land
passed out of the Vestal family is not known….The remains of the old furnace
are still standing…The district around the bloomery is known as “The Bloomery Neighborhood.” (Davis, Earl, 1940) [I found this same
quotation numerous times but could not locate the original item].
Minnie Speer Boone in her 1956 book Our Family Heritage” published in 1956,
says that it was only a few miles south of Harper’s Ferry. David Allen in his 2004
article “Jefferson County Ironworks” for the Appalachian Blacksmiths Association Newsletter that Vestal’s plantation (land holding,
not necessarily a plantation in the way we think of movie versions like Tara or
Oak Alley) had all the right things for an iron works: iron ore, limestone for a
fluxing agent, a strong flowing spring to power the water wheel which cranked
the bellows, and a large tract of woodland to provide the wood for charcoal to
make the fire. It would take 130 or more bushels of charcoal to make one ton of
iron. The iron would form lumps or “blooms,” hence the name bloomery. The bloom
would be hammered out, folded, welded, and hammered again. The bars typically
measured 3 feet long and 2” wide, with a weight of about forty pounds. Bar iron
was the raw material for the blacksmith to use in axes, hammers, knives, hoes,
and plows. A skilled blacksmith could make needles, fish hooks, forks or spoons,
links for a chain or hinges for a door. Allen thinks that Vestal’s Bloomery and
the local blacksmiths put Harpers Ferry “on the map.”
This historical marker for the Vestal Bloomery was once on
VA Rt. 9 near the Shenandoah River
One noteworthy thing is
that all four Washington brothers, George, Samuel, John Augustine, and Charles,
sons of Augustine and Mary Ball Washington, had lands in the lower Shenandoah
Valley, first in the county of Frederick which became Berkeley County. Several sources mentioned George Washington's diary entry about visiting the bloomery.
William Vestal left no
will, but his wife Elizabeth posted a bond of one thousand pounds at Winchester,
Virginia, after her appointment as executrix of his estate and an inventory was made of
his personal estate without real estate which presumably had already passed to John.
This is snippet of a map of NW Virginia, Frederick County,
and the town of Winchester shown in the Shenandoah River Valley between the Blue
Ridge Mountains and what is labeled the North Mountains.
In 1751 Elizabeth and two
sons, William and Thomas, went to North Carolina, settling in the vicinity of
the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting [more on this below]; their records state that
they came from the Hopewell Monthly Meeting which was in Frederick County (not
near the present town of Hopewell, Virginia). It was the oldest Quaker meeting
in the Shenandoah Valley. Eventually the whole family was connected to the Cane Creek Monthly
Meeting. William Glover Vestal and Elizabeth Mercer Woodward Vestal had seven
children.
James Mercer Vestal (1727-1793) 5xggf We have 46 explained DNA matches with the common ancestors
given as James Mercer Vestal and his wife Mary Orchard Jay.
James Mercer Vestal was
born sometime between 1727 and 1730. At this time the Vestal family was on the
move from Pennsylvania to Frederick, Virginia, so different researchers put his
birth in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and others place it in Maryland. One has to marvel
at the early pioneers—they barely scratched out any comforts where they were
before they packed up and moved to a more rustic place. Although he did not
come with his mother to Cane Creek, North Carolina, James must have joined them
by 1751 when his marriage intention to Mary Jay was announced. He and Mary had
eight children. They lived in Surry County which became Yadkin County. It
appears that his sister, Mary Vestal, had also married a Jay, William Jay, back
in Frederick County, Virginia. Quaker Meeting records show that both were
condemned for marrying out of the Quaker Meetings. James was also condemned in
1765 for strong drink and “disowned” from Cane Creek Meeting after others “labored
with him” to no avail.
There are various deeds on
record in Chatham County, NC, about land dealings. It is hard to parse these
records since the Vestals seemed to prefer the name James to all others for
boys, and the counties in North Carolina changed from Bladen (1734) with parts
going to Orange County in 1752, and Chatham County (1771) coming from parts of
Orange County. Then Alamance County was made from parts of Chatham County. And as
I stated, Surry County lost part to be Yadkin County. Surry and Yadkin Counties
in the map below are the last band of counties in the yellowish Piedmont
section before the green section that the map shows as “Mountain” counties.
Chatham County is pretty much dead center of the map below.
James and Mary Jay Vestal
had nine children before Mary died in 1782 in Surry County, North Carolina.
James married then Phoebe Allen. James died in 1793 and his will is on record
in Surry County.
This snapshot of the cover of the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting
Remembrance Book of 1942 shows the various buildings used for Meeting.
Cane Creek Monthly
Meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers)
The Quakers are well known for keeping great records, and they have a great many on the Vestal family, starting back with the Concord Meeting in Pennsylvania, and proceeding to the Hopewell Meeting in Frederick County, Virginia, and then to the Cane Creek Meeting in North Carolina. This was apparently a fairly common route that many Quaker families took. Most of these Meetings still exist and minister to families in those regions to this day. The Cane Creek Meeting, as shown above, began in log structures in 1751. It is in present Alamance County, NC, and has been a gathering place for over 240 years. The area is called Snow Camp. It was settled by Scots-Irish Presbyterians, Lutheran and Reformed German settlers, and Quakers. Quakers from Scotland, England, and Ireland came looking for a better life. Some of the first members of Cane Creek Meeting were Elizabeth Vestal and her children. Here is a quote from Bobbie Teague, author of Cane Creek: mother of meetings, published in 1995:These early settlers of the community called Cane Creek had proven themselves to be strong, God-fearing people. In just a few years they had built their homes, provided for their livelihoods, and established a monthly meeting which continues to this day.
James Vestal Jr. (1768-1855) 4x ggf We have 7 explained DNA matches with the common ancestors given
as James Vestal and Nancy Ann Swaim Vestal.
James Vestal Jr. was born
in 1768 to James Vestal Sr. and Mary Jay Vestal in Surry County, North
Carolina. There is an alternate birth from
his death record with the birth given in Orange County, North Carolina in the year 1770. He was
the tenth child of ten to Mary and James Sr. In his father’s will he is called
Jesse and is given the fifty acres James Sr. was living on and all its appurtenances
except for seven acres and the home James Sr. was living in to his wife during
her lifetime. The first United States census was in 1790 and James appears on
it living in Surry County, NC. There is a marriage between a Martha Cassada
(Cassidy) and Jesse Vestal that does not show ages in 1791 in Surry County, NC,
but some researchers give this marriage to James Vestal Sr. rather than to
James Jr. The census records for him in 1800 shows him living in Salisbury,
Surry County, NC. 1800 is also the year given of his marriage to Nancy Ann
Swaim. This marriage is not recorded in Surry County records, but I am
convinced of it since we have over 50 explained DNA records with Swaims or
people in that line as the common ancestor; there are several family trees that
show this marriage as well. The census in 1810 lists him in Surry County; the
1820 census lists him in “Capt. Williams District,” Surry County; the 1830 census
lists him in Surry County; the 1840 census shows that he moved to
Washington County, Virginia. It is a real shame that we cannot find James in
the 1850 census for either Virginia or North Carolina because 1850 was the year
that census records began to show family member names as well as the head of
household. Vestal researchers would all consider locating him on an 1850 census like
striking gold. There are two records of his death in Washington County, Virginia, in 1855, but I could not find a record of his will. There are two more marriage
records for a James Vestal in Surry County, one to Anna Whitehead in 1816 (this
would have been after the birth of the last child between James and Nancy Ann
Swaim Vestal but well before Nancy’s death in 1854), and another to Sarah Mary “Sally”
Martin in 1819. I don’t think Vestal researchers know what to make of those,
nor do I.
Jay Vestal (1808-1848) 3xggf We have 18 explained DNA matches with the common ancestors
given as Jay Vestal and Hannah Johnson Vestal.
Jay Vestal was the seventh
child of James Vestal Jr. and Nancy Ann Swaim. He was born in Surry County,
North Carolina in 1808. He married Hannah Johnson in Greene, Tennessee, in 1829
and possibly lived there shortly before moving to Washington County, Virginia. Greene County, TN is not far from Washington
County, Virginia, but further from Surry County, NC. He is shown on the 1830 census
in Surry County, NC, and in 1840 in Washington County, Virginia, where his father
and siblings moved the same time. The 1840 census tallies with the number of
his family at that time. That he is named Jay helps cement in my mind the
marriage between his grandfather James Mercer Vestal and Mary Orchard Jay.
The “Vestal Family File”
at the Washington County Historical Society Research Center in Abingdon, Virginia,
says, “They made stoneware at Oscoola, Virginia, five miles south of Abingdon.
They made rough pottery for crocks, jugs, and churns.” There are some instances
of this pottery still in existence, and today the pots are highly prized by
collectors. The pieces were sometimes signed. Jay's death is recorded in Washington
County, Virginia, in 1855. Jay died young, but his wife Hannah lived many
years after him.
Painting by Virginia Smith of Vestal Cabin “up Fisher
Hollow in Damascus / Alvarodo area” of Washington County, Virginia
Jay Vestal Family
Bible
This page is marked Births, but it records the birth of
Thomas Jefferson and the deaths of Priscilla A and James R. (who died of a
wound and amputation in the Civil War)
This page marked Births records the births of Simon, Nancy
Ann, Elizabeth Jane, Pricilla A, Neal H, Frances Caroline, Dorcas, and James R.
Vestal
This page marked Deaths records the death of Jay Vestal in
1848 and Hannah’s birth in 1810.
Vestal Pottery
The pottery shown below
was not made by one of our direct Vestal ancestors, but they do show the type
of pottery they would have made. The Wooten family, into which Clark A. South
(CE South’s father) married, were also potters. Jay Vestal’s nephew Jessee is
the most important potter to collectors, perhaps, but many members of the
family, including Jay and his brothers, were potters.
Here is a link to a very
good article from A! Magazine for the
Arts about collecting pottery from SW Virginia that mentions the Vestals
and shows examples of their work.
This signed and dated (1889) Jesse Vestal jar fetched $1920
at auction
A quote from an auction
site handling Vestal pottery:
Early Washington
County, Virginia stoneware preserving jar signed and dated in script, Jesse
Vestal 1879. 7 7/8" H. Note: Jesse/Jessee Vestal (born 1828 North
Carolina-died 1904 Virginia) is known for his beautifully incised script on
pottery. His family appears to have been in Washington Co. VA by 1833. In the
1850 census he is listed as still living with his parents. Both Jesse and his
father are recorded as farmers. However, his most famous piece of pottery, a
jug with a poem on it, is dated 1849. This jug is owned by the William King
Regional Arts Center in Abingdon, refer to LEGACY IN CLAY: POTTERY OF
WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA, William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, VA
and GREAT ROAD STYLE: THE DECORATIVE ARTS LEGACY OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND EAST
TENNESSEE, Betsy K. White. While Jesse’s father is listed as a farmer in the
1850 Population Census, he appears as the only potter in the 1850 Schedule of
Manufactures for Washington Co. (Source: Potters on the Holston prepared by C.
Espenshade). Jesse married into the Miller family of potters. At least one of
his sons became a potter. Research courtesy of Carole Wahler. Provenance:
Property of a private Virginia collection.
The Jessee Vestal Poem Jug from the William King Museum in
Abingdon, VA
Here is a
quote from the museum program about their Vestal pot:
Born
in 1828, Jessee Vestal was a Washington County, VA, potter in the Great Road
tradition, best known for his large, inscribed stoneware vessels. One of his
most important works dates to 1849 and was the first piece acquired by William
King Museum of Art as part of its Cultural Heritage Collection.
This brandy stoneware jug, in
particular, is considered Jessee’s masterpiece because of its elegance, as well
as the incised script carved on its surface. In January of this year, the “Poem
Jug” was displayed in the Backcountry Makers exhibit, which was
based on local Appalachian heritage scholar Betsy K. White’s book of the same
name. The poem reads:
Long and lazy
little and loud
fair and foolish
dark and proud
a splendee branda jug
little and loud
fair and foolish
dark and proud
a splendee branda jug
[This made me wonder
if it were the creator and not the creation Jesse Vestal was thinking of.]
Priscilla Adeline Vestal (1836-1863) great
great grandmother We have fourteen explained DNA matches
with the common ancestor given as Clark South & Priscilla Adeline Vestal
Priscilla Adeline Vestal
was the fourth of nine (ten?) children born to Jay and Hannah Johnson Vestal,
born in 1836. She appears to be at home with her mother Hannah as head of the household in
the 1850 census along with seven siblings. Although no occupation is listed, Hannah
made a living spinning thread and Simon, who was known as a potter, might have
been contributing to the family income as well as Priscilla’s older sisters
Nancy and Elizabeth. Priscilla married Clark Albert South, CE South’s father,
in 1856. In the 1860 census they are living in the “Western District” of
Washington County, Virginia, with their post office listed as Abingdon. The
1860 census shows the new family of Clark, Priscilla, Julia, and Charles Emmett South.
A year later Marion Manassas “Nass” South was born. We will learn much more
about Clark South when I am able to finish the Souths after Edmund South with
assistance from Betty South’s trove of information and records, but we know
that Clark enlisted in the Confederate Army 1862 and was taken prisoner, only
to be released in 1865, two years after Priscilla Adeline had died. [When I
think of Priscilla, I always think of my mother, Clyde railroad telegrapher in
1944, not 20 years old, getting a message one night about her new husband Dan
being taken POW in Germany. Poignant.]
The picture above is the gravestone for Priscilla Adeline Vestal South, spelled Percilla on it. My Vestal correspondents, the Sells and the Millers, go up to Zion Cemetery, now mostly overgrown, and work to clean the stones and rescue them from nature's encroaching. Our thanks to them for their care.
RESOURCES
I found the following
resources available for search on Ancestry.com useful: Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors, Vol.1, History of Chester
County, Pennsylvania: with genealogical and biographical sketches, Colonial and
Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs by
John Jordan, 1911, The Washingtons and Their
Homes by John Wayland, 1944, U.S. and
International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, their census records and more.
,
I used Wikipedia to get an overview of Quakers
http://vestals.us/ Good website for information
about the Vestal family with good documentation.
http://vestals.us/asaintvw.html Link
to online version of Asa Vestal’s 1862 pamphlet on the Vestal family.
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/pa-heritage/our-first-friends-early-quakers.html
Pennsylvania Heritage Society page with information on Quakers in Pennsylvania.
http://www.reformedreader.org/history/early.philadelphia.baptists.chapter2.htm
A good article about the Keithian Baptists.
https://archive.org/details/historyoflowersh00norr/page/n8
Online version of History of the lower
Shenandoah Valley counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson, and Clarke, their
early settlement and progress to the present time…” by J.E. Norris and
published in 1890.
https://archive.org/details/fromwhencewecame00cane
Text of From Whence We Came a
sesquibicentennial remembrance book from 1942 on Cane Creek Monthly Meeting.
This has information on the counties where Vestals lived.
https://archive.org/details/canecreekmothero01teag/page/8
online version of Cane Creek: Mother of
Meetings by Bobbie T. Teague, published by the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting
of Friends, 1995.
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ginnyb/genealogy/
A good starting place for Vestal research.
https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/l/a/Drew-Blaha-NC/GENE3-0006.html#CHILD9 Online source for a very well documented genealogy of the Vestals.
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