certificates were issued to fifteen founding members on that date. by the following year, the meeting had issued sixty-eight certificates. there have been five physical structures which have housed the monthly meeting; four of those, including the present day cane creek meeting house, have stood on land donated by william marshall and his wife rebecca dixon in 1764. the cane creek monthly meeting is often referred to as the "mother of meetings" because it gave rise to a number of other monthly meetings in the region.