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Chesterfield (Hicksite) Friends
Crosswicks, Burlington County

 

When the Hicksite faction of Friends broke off in 1826, they were the majority in a number of New Jersey towns, and so took over the property. In Crosswicks, it was the Orthodox group that held the majority, so the Hicksite members built this fine brick meeting house about a block away. Quaker meetinghouses normally have two front entrances, one for men and another for women; this, like a few of the mid-nineteenth century meetinghouses, has but a single entrance.

It now houses the Chesterfield Township Historic Society.

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