Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting

Began with the settlement of Monmouth County, Province of New Jersey

~• Inasmuch as Shrewsbury sent representatives to Philadelphia on a regular basis, here are some of their more prominent women and men.

Representatives sent to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

• 1735 (Spring Meeting} 15th day of the first month: Joseph Wardell, Joseph Tucker (p. 11 of 282)
• 1735 20th day 7th mo. Thomas Lipincot (sic), Joseph Lawrence, Elizabeth Parker, Hannah Lipincot (sic)
• 1736 20th day 1st mo. James Tucker, George Williams, Deborah Corlis, Hannah Lipicot (15 of 282)
• 1736 18th day 7th mo. Joseph Wardell, John Vail (17 of 282)
  • yearly mtg. held in Burlington
• 1737 1st mo. 19th (none) (20 of 282)
  • mtg in Philadelphia
• 1737 7th mo. 17th Isaac Hance, Thomas Lipicot, Deborah Curlis, Elizabeth Parker (22 of 282)
  • yearly Mtg. in Phila.
• 1738 18th of 1st mo. (none) (25 of 282)
  • general Spring Mtg. in Phila.
• 1738 16th 7th mo. George Williams, Jacob Lipincot (absent), Deborah Corlis, Mary Grover (absent) (26 of 282)
  • yearly mtg. held in Burlington NJ
• 1739 1st mo. Spring Mtg. (none)
• 1739 15th 7th mo. : William Lippincott, Joseph Wardell, Deborah Curlis, Lydia Hulet
  • Ministers and Elders at Phila Yearly Mtg. (31 of 282)
• 1740 10th 7th mo, : Thomas Lipincot, Joseph Lawrence, Elizabeth Shotwell, Hannah Lippincott
• 1748 James Tucker, Joseph Parker, Deborah Parker, Lydia WIlliams, Marianna Tilton, Joseph Wardell (Jr.)
• 1749 Thomas Lippincott, Hannah Lippincott, Joseph Parker, Deborah Parker

~* Shrewsbury stopped going to the Spring Meetings after 1736

sources

• http://www.shrewsburyquakers.org/
• U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes, 1734-1774
  • birth lists by family