- Need Merion Station created *
Name: Merion Monthly Meeting, Marion Station, Pennsylvania Location: Category: Merion Station, Pennsylvania Address: 615 Montgomery Avenue, Merion Station, Pennsylvania 19066 Affiliation: Society of Friends Cemetery: Merion Friends Burial Ground, Merion Station, Pennsylvania Web page: http://merionfriends.org Map of Profiles: WikiTree+ Maps Project / Team: Quakers See also: Ask questions in G2G using the tags Quakers and Religion and Categorization Profiles are placed in this category with this text [[Category:Merion Monthly Meeting, Merion Station, Pennsylvania]] .
A short history from the website of the Merion Friends Meeting:- The Meeting, as a group of Quakers, began in 1682 upon arrival of the first boatload of the First Company of Welsh families fleeing persecution for their non-conformist worship in Wales. Edward Jones, son-in-law of Dr. Thomas Wynne, Quaker physician and friend of William Penn led them.
- In 1695 the now thriving community in "Merion," named in honor of their Welsh Merionethshire, built a stone meeting house, later to be enlarged. It stood on a well-used path linking the Welsh farms to Philadelphia. Tradition says William Penn visited and preached here. In the loft above the meeting room, school was held for girls and boys, including Indian children.
- There is evidence that this is the most pictured Friends meeting house in the United States, if not the world, probably because of its age, and because it was easily accessible from a growing metropolis once a publishing center. Two additional acres were given the Meeting in 1801 and 1804 by John Dickinson, a participant in founding our nation who had family ties to Merion.
- Merion Friends recently received a great honor when the meetinghouse was declared a National Landmark by the Dept. of Interior in Washington, D.C. Weekly meetings for worship, as well as occasional weddings and burials in the adjacent grounds, continue to the present day.
- -Mary Lucy Mendenhall Wood, archivist of the Merion Friends Meeting
See also:
- Finding aids for materials deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Quaker Collection:
Person Profiles (12)
Robert ap Owen 1657 Fron Goch, Merionethshire, Wales - 10 Aug 1697
Alexander Bane abt 1688 Edinburgh, Scotland - 1752
Richard (Cuerton) Cuarton bef 29 Sep 1642 Grinshill, Shropshire, England - bef 20 Jul 1699
Jane Owen abt 1653 Frongoch, Merionethshire, Wales - abt 1686
Rebecca Owen aft 1663 Llwyn-du (in Llwyngwril, par. Llangelynin), Merioneth, Wales - 23 Aug 1697
Elizabeth (Roberts) Gover 24 Feb 1683 Penllyn, Glamorgan, Wales - aft 21 Aug 1761
Hugh Roberts abt 1644 Kiltalgarth, Parish Llanvawr, Merionethshire, Wales - 17 Aug 1702
Mary (Thomas) Tunis abt 1760 Merion Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 28 Jul 1843
Abraham Tunis 21 May 1786 Lower Merion Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States
Anthony Tunis 19 Apr 1757 Merion Station, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania - 28 Aug 1806
Jonathan Wynne 1669 Bronvedog, Ysceifiog, Flintshire, Wales - 28 Feb 1721
Thomas Wynne 20 Jul 1627 Caerwys, Flintshire, Wales - 16 Jan 1692