In 2002 Friends celebrated the 350th anniversary of the beginning of Quakerism in Britain. Throughout 2004 Irish Friends held a number of events commemorating the 350th anniversary of the coming ofQuakerism to Ireland. Quakerism first appeared on the American mainland in 1 656, so that 2006 marks the 350th anniversary of the earliest Quaker communities along the Atlantic coast. Where and in what order did these first American Quaker communities appear? Some years ago Quaker History presented an exchange of views on the location ofAmerica's earliest Quaker community. Part of the difference of opinion stemmed from what the title "Virginia" meant at the middle of the 1650s. Inmy 1996 article "America's First Quakers-Where, When, andBy Whom?" I discussed the testimony of cartographers who in 1612 saw all of the British-claimed American mainland as belonging to an area known as "Virginia."1 After the New England Company was established and settlements were erected there, the northern area was "hived off and was then called "New England"—leaving the whole region from the Hudson River southward to Cape Fear in North Carolina under the name of "Virginia." This was still the situation throughout the 1650s.2 The generic name "Virginia" throughout the 1650s included not only the present states of Virginia and Maryland, but also additional areas to the north and south of those two regions. Examples from Quaker documents show this usage still held true throughout the 1650s and into the 1660s, noting 1660-1662 references to "Maryland in Virginia" as well as John Perrot's 1660 reference to the "Continent ofVirginia." To those examples we should add one as late as 1 673 dealing with Fox' s visit to America, where James Lancaster's account ofFox's travels is described as "made inVirginia [in] that part called Maryland."3 Cf. Carroll, "America's First Quakers," 5 1 , for these references which show that "Virginia" was still seen as the larger region in which Maryland was located; George Fox, The Journal ofGeorge Fox, a revised edition by John L. Nickalls (Cambridge: The University Press, 1952), 639, for this passage which shows that as late as 1673 some Quakers still thought of "Virginia" as a region which included Maryland. Nowhere in any ofthe many 1 650s and 1 660s maps which I saw or in any of the early Quaker documents is the term "olde Virginia" (which to me "smacks" of an antiquarian addition or reproduction) to be found.