Vail, Hugh D.

A monthly meeting at Amboy was established in 1686 as part of Shrewsbury and Rahway Quarterly Meeting. It began to circulate to Woodbridge in 1689. This meeting was discontinued for a short period, due to the Keithian contoversy. In 1706, it was reestablished at Woodbridge. In 1763, the monthly meeting began to circulate between Plainfield, Rahway, and Woodbridge. Six years later it removed from Woodbridge and began to alternate between Rahway and Plainfield. Two monthly meetings emerged at the time of the Hicksite Separation. The Orthodox meeting was discontinued in 1910 by Burlington and Bucks Quarterly Meeting, and its members were attached to Chesterfield. The Hicksite monthly Meeting was transferred to New York Yearly Meeting in 1833. From 1892-1909 the name of this meeting was Plainfield Monthly Meeting; after 1909, the name returned to Rahway and Plainfield Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox).