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The Quaker Cemetery is a privately owned cemetery in Leicester, Massachusetts, established in 1740 and located at the site of the old meeting house of the Leicester Friends on Earle Street in the village of Manville. The cemetery is still in use and is now maintained by the Worcester Friends Meeting.
Creek Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery is a historic Society of Friends meeting house and cemetery on Salt Point Turnpike/Main Street in Clinton Corners, Dutchess County, New York, United States. It was built between 1777 and 1782. The meeting house is a two-story, squarish building constructed of fieldstone.
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This cemetery was the first in Queensbury. [2] 1911 marker. A commemorative marker was installed in 1911 by the Wing family to honor that family's role in the settlement of Queensbury. The burial ground contains approximately 80 burials. [3] The site was the location of a Quaker Meeting House and school, as well as cemetery. [2]
The cemetery is named for Thomas Clifton, who gave the land to the Society of Friends for a burial ground in 1675, though some who are presumably buried here died much earlier than that. The cemetery has 168 known interments, including four colonial Rhode Island governors: Jeremy Clarke , Walter Clarke , William Wanton and Joseph Wanton .
Built in 1791, it is the oldest Quaker meeting house in southeastern Massachusetts, and one of its best preserved. The property it stands on, which includes a cemetery, has been used by its Quaker congregation since at least 1699. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1]
Friends Burial Ground is a historic Quaker cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is the earliest cemetery in Baltimore, established in 1713, and 2.8 acres (11,000 m 2) in size. It contains a total of approximately 1,900 small, simple grave markers, arranged in compact rows interspersed with large trees.
Today, the Clarke house and Quaker meeting house are connected by trails which have existed since the early 1700s. [ 4 ] Today, the Princeton Monthly Meeting of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends holds worship services in the meeting house on First Day ("Sunday") at 9:00 & 11:00 am. [ 5 ]