Burlington Meeting Houses

First Friends' Meeting House, High Street, Burlington, New Jersey. Built 1682. Present Friends' Meeting House, High Street, Burlington, New Jersey. (Where the anniversary meeting was held, 1931.) This building was erected in 1784, on or near the site of the hexagonal house of 1682, illustrated above. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was held here and in Philadelphia alternately until 1760, when the latter city became its permanent home. In the burial ground at the rear of the meeting house were buried the Indian Chief Ockanickon, and many noted Friends: John Kinsey, the elder, 1677; Samuel Smith, the historian, 1776; Stephen Grellet, 1855; Eliza P. Gurney, 1881; the families of Cox, Dillwyn, Deacon, Scattergood , and many more. ...