Category: Chester County Quaker Meetings

Bradford Monthly Meeting

Bradford Monthly Meeting had its beginning in 1719 when a meeting for worship was established for the winter here known as “Brandywine Forks” or simply “Forks” by Kennett Monthly Meeting. In 1737, Chester Quarterly...

Downingtown Friends Meeting

The Downingtown Friends meeting started out in Lionville as Uwchlan Monthly Meeting in 1712, first meeting in member’s home and finally building a stone meeting house in 1756 (see Uwchlan Meetinghouse). In 1784, members...

Goshen Monthly Meeting

Goshen meeting was set up in 1721/22 by Chester Quarterly from part of the membership of Chester Monthly Meeting and three preparative meetings, Goshen, Whiteland and Willistown, were set up under the new meeting’s...

Homeville Meetinghouse

Established in 1839 as the Oxford  by Fallowfield Monthly, this meeting was added to the Pennsgrove Monthly in 1842 and its name changed to Homeville Preparative. Meetings were held in the log schoolhouse at Asa...

Little Elk Chapel

Established in 1825 by East Nottingham Preparative and Nottingham Monthly after Nottingham Monthly was transferred to Baltimore Yearly in 1819. Meetings were held in a small stone meeting house that was erected in 1826...

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