| Organization name | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Women Friends |
| Org type | Yearly meeting |
| Bio notes | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting opened at Burlington, New Jersey in 1681 and first met for discipline at Philadelphia in 1683. Friends agreed to meet jointly and alternately as a yearly meeting on either side of the Delaware River in 1685. The Yearly Meeting began to meet only at Philadelphia after 1745; in 1790 transferred Fairfax and Warrington Quarterly Meeting of Friendss to Baltimore Yearly Meeting and accepted the transfer of Baltimore Yearly Meeting's Eastern Shore Quarterly Meeting of Friends as its new Southern Quarterly Meeting of Friends, and transferred Nottingham Quarterly Meeting of Friends to Baltimore Yearly Meeting in 1819. |
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