Moorestown Meeting House (Orthodox)
Item Description
Building dated 1897.
"Moorestown. Present House."
Chester Monthly Meeting (NJ) was established in 1803 by Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting out of Evesham Monthly Meeting. Its first business sessions were held in 1804. After the Separation, there were two Chester Monthly Meetings in New Jersey. The Orthodox meeting changed its name to ""Moorestown Monthly Meeting"" in 1943. In 1951, Chester Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) merged with Moorestown Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) to form a united meeting under Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting and Haddonfield and Salem Quarterly Meeting. Moorestown is currently an active monthly meeting. (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Records Committee, Guide to the records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1989, p. 133).