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Organization name Newtown Friends meeting
Date founded 1702
Org type Local meeting
Bio notes A monthly meeting known as "Newton" was established by 1686 under Salem Quarterly Meeting of Friends. The monthly meeting may have come into existence as early as 1682 at the division of the short-lived monthly meeting for Pine Point and Shackamaxon. In 1794, the meeting was transferred to Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting of Friends.
See also Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends
Citations quakermeetings.com ; http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/speccoll/mm/haddomm.xml

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Journal of Joshua Evans 1795-1796 (E)