New Garden Monthly Meeting Chester County, Pennsylvania
New Garden MM - 1998
New Garden Monthly Meeting in Chester County, Pennsylvania was set up in 1718 by
Chester Quarterly Meeting, and the meetings were sometimes held at Nottingham.
A meeting house was built on land patented by William Penn about 1706.
Friends had settled there by 1712, and meetings for worship were held in
various homes, the first one being in the home of Simon Hadly. Six acres were granted
to Simon Hadly, James Starr, Thomas Jackson and Michael Lightfoot on 26 October
1717 in trust for the meeting. The land was formally transferred to the meeting on
12 December 1723. Monthly Meetings alternated between Nottingham and London Grove
until 1792.
This meeting was named in remembrance of New Garden Meeting, in County Carlow,
Ireland. New Garden Meeting in North Carolina was named after
this meeting and later one in Indiana.
The picture above was drawn at yearly meeting time around 1867 by New Jersey Quaker
artist, John Collins.
