Old Kennett Friends Meetinghouse

Old Kennett Meeting (Quaker)

Set up in 1711 by Newark Monthly (later Kennett Monthly) after having been an indulged meeting since 1707. Members met in homes until the first meeting house. a two-story stone building, was built in 1710. Continued after the Separation after the division of the original Kennett Preparative, the property of which was retained by the …

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Oxford Friends Meetinghouse

Nottingham Friends Meeting (Quaker)

Set up as an indulged meeting known as Oxford Indulged by Pennsgrove Monthly in 1876 and transferred to Nottingham Monthly in 1883, at which time it became a preparative meeting. The red stone meeting house was built in 1879. The preparative meeting was discontinued in 1927 and it became an indulged meeting again. In 1937, …

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New Garden Friends Meeting (Quaker)

Originally set up in 1715 as a preparative meeting by Newark Monthly after being an indulged meeting since 1713. Early meetings were held in the home of John Miller in 1713 and in 1715, a log meeting house was built. In 1743 a red brick addition was added to the south end of the building, …

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Marlborough Friends Meetinghouse

Marlborough Friends Meeting (Quaker)

Set up in 1802 By Bradford Monthly, after being an indulged meeting since 1799. Soon after its creation, the meeting was attached to Kennett Monthly. In 1801, a red brick meeting house was created on land donated jointly by Richard Barnard and Isaac Baily and a portion of the land was plotted for a burial …

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London Britain Meetinghouse

London Britain Meeting (Quaker)

Established in 1842 by New Garden Monthly meeting after having been an indulged meeting since 1834. The first meetings were held in the home of Richard Chambers of White Clay Hundred in 1824. Later that year, the meeting purchased an acre and a half of land for a meeting house and graveyard.. The meeting was …

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Little Elk Chapel

Little Elk Chapel (Quaker)

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 on land donated by Job and Ann Sidwell, a small burial ground adjoining the meeting house. After the Separation, the property …

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Kennett Friends Meetnghouse

Kennett Friends Meeting (Quaker)

Set up in 1686 by Philadelphia Quarterly as Newark Monthly, the name being changed in 1760 to Kennett Monthly. In 1938, the Orthodox branch was laid down and its members transferred to New Garden Monthly. After the Separation, the Hicksite branch was continued after the division of the original Kennett Monthly. Component meetings were Kennett …

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HOmeville Friends Meetinghouse

Homeville Friends Meeting (Quaker)

Established in 1839 as the Oxford Preparative 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 Walton’s in Colerain township in Lancaster County until 1839 when the small red brick meeting house in Homeville was …

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