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 Hicksite branch.

The Orthodox branch of the meeting continued to meet at the Hamorton meeting house until 1830, when that branch moved to Parkersville and built a meeting house there, setting aside land for a burial ground, on land purchased from John Parker.

The Hicksite branch underwent some tensions in the period between 1850 and 1854 which resulted in the formation of the Progressive Friends at Longwood. The meeting was discontinued in 1904, but in 1913, the meeting was re-established as Old Kennett Preparative, which was eventually discontinued in 1949 and its business transferred to Kennett Monthly Meeting.

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