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This is a space created to supply information and links about meetings, burial grounds, and resources, in order to organize the data for Quakers in New Jersey previously known as West Jersey and East Jersey.
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Meetings
| Meeting | County | Town | Started | Laid Down | Category | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burlington | Burlington | Burlington | 1678 | 1991 | Category | |
| Chester | Burlington | Moorestown | 1803 | 1951 | none | Merged to Moorestown |
| Chesterfield | Burlington | Crosswicks | 1684 | 1956 | Category | Info |
| Crosswicks | Burlington | Crosswicks | 1684 | active | none | Info |
| Evesham | Burlington | Mount Laurel | 1760 | 1956 | Category | |
| Great Egg Harbor | Atlantic | Leeds Point | 1726 | 1843 | Category | |
| Greenwich | Cumberland | Greenwich | 1783 | active | none | Info |
| Haddonfield aka Newton | Camden | Haddonfield | 1682 | active | Category | |
| Hardwick and Randolph | Warren | Hardwick | 1797 | 1855 | Category | Info |
| Kingwood aka Quakertown | Hunterdon | Quakertown | 1744 | active | Category | |
| Little Egg Harbor | Ocean | Tuckerton | 1715 | active | Category | |
| Manasquan aka Shrewsbury | Monmouth | Manasquan | 1672 | active | Category | Info |
| Maurice River | Cumberland | Port Elizabeth | 1804 | 1854 | none | Info |
| Medford aka Upper Evesham | Burlington | Medford | 1793 | active | Category | history Info |
| Moorestown | Burlington | Moorestown | 1803 | active | Category | Info |
| Mount Holly | Burlington | Mount Holly | 1776 | active | Category | Info |
| Pilesgrove | Salem | Woodstown | 1794 | 1830 | Category | |
| Rahway and Plainfield | Union | Plainfield | 1686 | active | Category | |
| Rancocas | Burlington | Rancocas | 1678 | active | Category | |
| Salem | Salem | Salem | 1676 | active | Category | |
| Stony Brook aka Princeton | Mercer | Princeton | unknown | active | Category | |
| Upper Springfield | Burlington | Columbus | 1781 | 1998 | Category | Info |
| Woodbury | Gloucester | Woodbury | 1784 | active | Category |
- Cropwell Preparative Meeting. Historically, its records are found in the Upper Evesham Monthly Meeting Records (now called Medford Monthly Meeting). Cropwell became a Monthly Meeting in 1982.
- Stony Brook Category Was this ever a MM ? History notes at the now Princeton MM (1942) it was a built on the ground of Stony Wood.
- Woolwich Preparative Meeting of Friends (Mullica Hill, N.J.) meeting known as Mullica Hill was established in 1797 by Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting and Woodbury Monthly Meeting. It was renamed in 1928, when the Woolwich Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) was established, as the dissolution of Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting occurred.
- Old Springfield Preparative Meeting
Burial Grounds
| Name | County | Category | Cemetery Link |
| Arney's Mount | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Barnegat | Ocean | none | FAG |
| Burlington | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Camden, New Newton | Camden | Category | FAG |
| Cedar Hills | Salem | Category | FAG |
| Chesterfield | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Copany | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Cropwell | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Crosswicks | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| East Branch | Monmouth | none | FAG |
| Easton Union | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Eldridge Cemetery | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Evesham | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Greenwich | Cumberland | Category | FAG |
| Greenwich #2 | Cumberland | none | FAG |
| Haddonfield | Camden | Category | FAG |
| Hardwick | Warren | Category | FAG |
| Kingwood | Hunterdon | none | FAG |
| Linwood | Atlantic | none | FAG |
| Lower Squankum | Monmouth | Category | FAG |
| Manasquan | Monmouth | Category | FAG |
| Maurice River, Port Elizabeth | Cumberland | none | FAG |
| Medford, Union Street, Upper Evesham | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Medford Hicksite, Main Street | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Mickleton Meeting House | Gloucester | None | FAG |
| Moorestown | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Mount Holly | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Mount Laurel | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Mullica Hill | Gloucester | Category | FAG |
| Old Newton, Union Sloan | Camden | Category | FAG |
| Pedricktown | Salem | Category | FAG |
| Pittstown, Quakertown | Hunterdon | Category | FAG |
| Plainfield, Rahway | Union | Category Info | FAG |
| Rancocas | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Randolph | Morris | Category | FAG |
| Salem | Salem | Category | FAG |
| Seaville | Cape May | Category | FAG |
| Shrewsbury, Long Branch | Monmouth | Category | FAG |
| Solomons | Gloucester | None | FAG |
| Stony Brook | Mercer | Category | FAG |
| Trenton | Mercer | Category | FAG |
| Tuckerton | Ocean | Category | FAG |
| Upper Springfield | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Upper Freehold | Monmouth | none | FAG |
| Vincentown, Grange | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Westfield | Burlington | Category | FAG |
| Woodbridge , Little Quaker | Middlesex | Category | FAG |
| Woodbury | Gloucester | Category | FAG |
| Woodstown | Salem | none | FAG |
| Yellow Meeting House | Monmouth | Category | FAG |
Note
Other non- specific (Quaker burial grounds) cemetery categories can be found at Category:New_Jersey_Cemeteries by drilling down to the county and then the cemetery.
Research Material
- The Settlement of Meetings in New Jersey p. 1 by Hugh D. Vail (1886), as found in "Quaker Miscellany : New Jersey" by Heiss, Willard
- POWNALL family of early Pennsylvania (Why is this on the New Jersey page?)
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The Upper Greenwich Preparative meeting started at Solomon Lippincott's house, so the original graveyard is called "Solomon's Graveyard," and has at present duplicate findagrave profiles: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2762415/solomon%27s-graveyard and https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/100254/solomons-graveyard.
Later they built a meeting house 1.7 miles away. That building is called Upper Greenwich Friends Meetinghouse aka Mickleton Meeting House. There is a newer cemetery next to the meeting house, see Findagrave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1716051/mickleton-meeting-house-graveyard.
Both cemeteries are visible on Google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/413+Kings+Hwy,+Mickleton,+NJ+08056/Solomon's+Graveyard,+56+W+Wolfert+Station+Rd,+Mickleton,+NJ+08056/@39.7908922,-75.2377232,155m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x89c6db8da2c4aa7f:0xfe7920b291a203ab!2m2!1d-75.2379018!2d39.7908659!1m5!1m1!1s0x89c6dd5a52c179a3:0x481a236fd545b4eb!2m2!1d-75.26318!2d39.78482!3e0?entry=ttu
See http://www.nj.searchroots.com/EG/friendsmeeting.htm and Solomon Lippincott (1720-bef.1798).
Mickleton in Plone: https://www.quakermeetings.com/Plone/meeting_view?anID=1358
edited by H Husted
I see documentation at https://www.quakermeetings.com/Plone/meeting_view?anID=1358 for MICKLETON as Upper Greenwich is listed as a previous PM. That MM was granted in 1954. Do you know of existing profiles on WT that we could create a category for the listing?
edited by David Wilson
If we were speaking of a more recent marriage, after 1954, the Mickleton MM would need a category created. Another collection of Mickelton PM (variation of Micketon) also known as Upper Greenwich PM is found at https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/archival_objects/171390670f68f1cb6a240bce477d6796. That PM was not built until 1798.
The family geneaology source listed http://www.nj.searchroots.com/EG/haines.htm is potentially responsible for this error.
The source https://archive.org/details/richardhaineshis02hain/page/36/mode/1up?q=Haines%2C+John+W.%2C+Richard+Haines+and+his+Descendants.+A+Quaker+Family+of+Burlington+County%2C+New+Jersey+Since+1682 appears correct.
Nice job on your work for these profiles!
edited by David Wilson
i believe it would be helpful to have the cemeteries listed in the chart above, no?
https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/122456?token=gst6vMuqGrY8EB8JnLNR6qAS9V%2FIuI2hs1XgNUkmpPk%3D
I wish they'd re-index the whole collection, it's been years of inaccuracy at this point.
Manasquan Meeting: http://www.manasquanquakers.com/Heritage.html
Shrewsbury Meeting: https://shrewsburyquakers.org/article/history
edited by H Husted
edited by David Wilson
Am I reading all that correctly? When your meeting itself needs its own genealogy, wow....
I have no idea how best to handle the separation period. Should there be a joint category just for the 99 years the Hicksite branches were merged? What makes the most sense?
One good thing, I finally know the reason Ancestry indexing is so weird for Jersey--Rahway and Plainfield probably absorbed a bunch of Orthodox meetings on the coast.
"SHREWSBURY MONTHLY MEETING: The first meeting was held on the 15th day of the 6th month, 1672 at Shrewsbury as a part of the Westbury Quarterly Meeting. It soon became a meeting of the Shrewsbury and Rahway Quarterly Meeting."
edited by H Husted
The first page of the book reads "An Abstract of Marriages and a copy of the Records of Births and Deaths of the members of Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting of Friends. The Marriages dating from 1674-1863; the Births from 1641-1869; and the Deaths from 1666 to 1876. Taken from the Original Records by Hugh D. Vail, Philadelphia 1878"
Edwards-25418
U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 for Webley Edwards 18:33, 11 November 2019 (UTC)