Papers, 1760-1851.

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Papers, 1760-1851.

Land drafts by Moses Moon and John Cutler for land in Middletown, Buckingham, Newtown, Falls, Bristol, Bensalem, Lower Makefield, Upper Makefield, Solebury, Northampton townships and Washington Village (Langhorne), Pa. (ca. 1776-1798); manumissions given by James Winder and one by Ennion Williams to their slaves (1776-1802); letter from Abel James to John Swift and Moses Moon (1786) regarding Lawrence Growden's estate papers;printed epistles and addresses of Friends meetings in London, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania (1760-1778); Friends memoranda and a transfer for Middletown, Falls, and Plumstead meetings (1851); survey receipts (1798); lease of Joseph Burges to William Emmit (1813); and miscellaneous news clippings, poems, and advertisements (1807-1812).

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Bucks County Historical Society

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Cutler, John, active 1776-1798

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Williams, Ennion, 1752-1830

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Swift, John, 1720-1802

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Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends (Langhorne, Pa.)

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Middletown Monthly Meeting was established out of Falls Monthly Meeting by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1683. This meeting was known as "Neshaminy" until 1706. In 1827, at the time of the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. Middletown Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1862, and its members were attached to Falls Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). Middletown Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), which became a united meeting by ...

Burges, Joseph

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James, Abel, -1790

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Plumstead Preparative Meeting (Plumstead, Pa.)

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Growden, Lawrence

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Moon family.

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Falls Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends)

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Falls Monthly Meeting was established by Burlington Quarterly Meeting in 1683. It was transferred to Bucks Quarterly Meeting later that year. After the Separation of 1827, Orthodox and Hicksite branches of this monthly meeting emerged. In 1866, a group of Primitive Friends withdrew from the Orthodox monthly meeting to form a third Falls Monthly Meeting. In 1947, the Hicksite, Orthodox, and Primitive branches of this monthly meeting were merged into the current Falls Monthly Meeting. ...

Emmit, William

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Winder, James P.

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Moon, Moses

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