Minutes, 1843-1856.
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Joint Committee on Interments (Society of Friends : Hicksite : Philadelphia, Pa.)
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The Joint Committee on Interments was appointed in 1843 to prepare rules and regulations for the management of funerals and to oversee the burial ground at Fair Hill. The committee included representatives of the three Hicksite monthly meetings in Philadelphia, viz. Cherry Street, Green Street, and Spruce Street. The sub-committee which had the direct oversight of the Fair Hill Burial Ground was called the Committee of Nine. From the description of Minutes, 1843-1856. (Swarthmore Col...
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite)
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In 1827, after the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Abington Quarterly Meeting established a monthly meeting in the city for Friends of Philadelphia and Byberry. It became part of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) in 1828. From 1828 to 1857, this meeting held its sessions at a meeting house on Cherry Street. In 1857, it removed its sessions to 15th and Race Streets. In 1956, this monthly meeting merged with Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Western Distri...
Fair Hill Burial Ground
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Fair Hill Burial Ground was established on land bequeathed by George Fox in 1690 to Friends in Philadelphia, including six acres for a meeting house, school house, and burial place. There were only a few interments from 1707 to 1795, when burials ceased temporarily because the land was leased to a tenant farmer. In 1818 the Fair Hill property was assigned to Green Street Monthly Meeting. In 1830 it was proposed that a burial ground be established there for the three Hicksite monthly meetings in ...
