Chichester Meetinghouse

Chichester Meeting for Worship was established in 1682 and began holding monthly meetings in 1684. The current unimproved fieldstone meetinghouse was built in 1769 and replaced an earlier c. 1688 log structure that was destroyed by fire. A datestone in the west gable bears the inscription R+D 1769, attributed to Richard Dutton, a major contributor to Chichester Friends' interests. In 1973 the meetinghouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The original meetinghouse was built on two acres of land donated by James Brown in 1688 and had grown to 7 acres by 1705. The property also has a caretaker's house (1703), a two-story white oak barn (1783), and a 1777 mounting block. Southeast of the meetinghouse is a large graveyard where both Lenape and early Quakers were interred. Ancestors of President Lincoln worshipped and are buried here.

Pennsylvania · United States