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From: Jeff Palmer <>
Subject: Re: Chester Co. PA Quakers: Some Questions
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 14:14:32 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 wrote: <SNIPPED>

> An ancestor was interred (in the 1860s) at the Orthodox Friends Burial
> Ground in New Garden, PA; does that Burial Ground still exist? Exactly
> where would I go to visit it?

From the Delaware/Pennsylvania border, go 2.5 miles west on Rt. 41 to
Newark Road and then north on Newark Road about 1/2 mile. The active New
Garden Meeting and cemetery is on the left. The "old" New Garden Meeting
and cemetery from before the reunification (I ASSUME the "old" meeting is
the Orthodox meeting) is on the opposite side of Newark Road midway
between Rt. 41 and the active meeting. The "old" meeting is now a private
residence. I don't know if the "old" cemetery is now private property or
if it is still maintained by the Quakers. You might want to check in with
the residents beforehand, just in case.

> I have learned that another ancestor is interred at "Old" Sadsbury Burial
> Ground. I would like to know what is meant by the phrase "Old" Sadsbury and
> if that burial ground still exists and exactly where it is. Does a Meeting
> associated with that burial ground still exist?

According to the "Book of Meetings", jointly published by the Philadelphia
Yearly Meetings, 1940, the "old Sadsbury Meeting House" is a mile north of
Christiana (which is along Rt. 41 on the border of Chester and Lancaster
Counties). The meetings of the Sadsbury MM were moved to the "new"
"Christiana Meeting House" which was built in 1901/02 in Christiana.

Any help?

Jeff Palmer - - No Archive

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