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Location: 
PO Box 142, Gwynedd PA 19436 USA (corner of US 202 and Sumneytown Pike)
Telephone: (215) 699-3055  
Home Page:  http://www.gwyneddmeeting.org/Index2.1.html
History Page:  http://www.gwyneddmeeting.org/history/history.htm

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Coordinates:  40-12-10.39 N     75-15-21.63 W [Google Earth]

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Establishment of the Friend's Meeting [at Gwynedd] - S10 pages 73-92,

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Meeting Name: GWYNEDD (HICKSITE)
Website: http://www.gwyneddmeeting.org/Index2.1.html
Records Website: http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/speccoll/mm/gwynemm.xml
Preparative Records: http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/speccoll/mm/gwynepm.xml
Genealogy Searches: http://www.gwyneddmeeting.org/history/genealogy.htm
Former meeting names:  No former names are known
State or Province: PENNSYLVANIA
County: MONTGOMERY
Physical location: GWYNEDD 19436, SUMNEYTOWN PK. & DEKALB (S.R. 202)
Date granted: 1714/12/06
Date of first meeting: 1715/02/22
Current Status: ACTIVE
Before and After: PM 1702-1936 FROM OLD HAVERFORD (RADNOR, HAVERFORD) MM.
Branches:  [HICKSITE] 1827/08/30 - 1953/05/07
Latest yearly meeting: PHILADELPHIA Y.M.
Where records are kept: SWARTHMORE mf HAVERFORD. LDS 20399, -415, -62, 383439-40
Records known extant: SWARTHMORE: MIN 1715-1984, WOMEN MIN 1717-1743, 1746-1749, 1753-1762, 1771-1897, BIRTHS 1690-1880, DEATHS 1715-1878, MARRIAGES 1715-1917, REMOVALS 1779-1920, BIRTHS & DEATHS 1772-1921, MEMB 1827-1829, 1848, MEMB TRANSFERS 1891-1921, MARRIAGES 1828-1930, MEMB 1856-1936, REMOVALS 1828-1867, M&E 1757-1898, 1935-1939. GEN SOC PENN, MATLACK: BURIALS.
Affiliations
   PHILADELPHIA Q.M. UNTIL 1786/02/06
   ABINGTON Q.M. AFTER 1786/05/04
   ABINGTON [ORTHODOX] Q.M. AFTER 1953/05/07
Local-related histories: H. M. JENKINS, HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD(1897). ELIZA AMBLER FOULKE, A BOOK OF HISTORICAL FACTS OF GWYNEDD MEETING (1969). (INTERNET) HISTORY OF GWYNEDD MONTHLY MEETING OF FRIENDS, GWYNEDD, PENNSYLVANIA (2005) AT http://www.gwyneddmeeting.org/history/history.htm
Comments: "INFORMAL HINSHAW TRANSCRIPTS", PENNSYLVANIA QUAKER MONTHLY MEETING RECORDS VOL. 5, FROM SELBY PUBLISHING (1990), http://www.netusa1.net/~selbypub/pa.htm
Subordinates
   EXETER (OLEY) PM 1725-1737
   PLYMOUTH PM UNTIL 1936
   RICHLAND (SWAMP) PM 1725-1742
   PROVIDENCE PM 1733-1866
   MAIDEN CREEK PM 1735-1737
   NORRISTOWN PM 1860-1936
Sources:  S4, S8, S9,
 
First Meeting House:  1700, built of logs
Second Meeting House:  1712 - Stone and much larger
1712 structure was torn down when the 1823 building was constructed
   - The subscription paper for this building was in Welsh and dated 1710-11 and had 66 signers
First Marriage:  25 Aug 1714 - two Evans daughters, first cousins - Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Ann daughter of Robert - They married Edward Jones & William Evans
SourceS10 pages 73-92,

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S1 Chronological Sketch - Gwynedd Friends Meeting -

Sources: 
Historical Collections of Gwynedd, by H.M. Jenkins (1897) (My Bk2910)
A Book of Historical Facts of Gwynedd Meeting, by Eliza Ambler Foulke (1969)
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S2 Book:  Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1699-1949, 250th Anniversary. Gwynedd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1949.  Bk2980
Repository Ancestry.com
 
S3 Gwynedd MM Minutes, February 1714/5 to April 1718    Link   (Thomas Foulke ID2286 is mentioned)  
S4 http://www.quakermeetings.com/meeting_view?anID=TST86L  
S5 Book:  Jenkins, Howard M. Historical Collections Relating to Gynedd: A Township of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Settled, 1698, by Immigrants from Wales, with some data referring to the Adjoining Township of Montgomery, also settled by Welsh, Second edition. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Howard M Jenkins, 1897. Bk2910, Page 312

Chapter 19:  Gwynedd in the Midst of the Revolution:  Sally Wister's Journal - Link

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S6 Friend's Meeting house at Gwynedd Pennsylvania, sketched before 1897 by E.F. Bonsall
(Reproduced from Historical Collections of Gwynedd, by Howard M. Jenkins, 1897)
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S7 Gwynedd Settlement Map, 1699 - Link
S8 Book:  Williams, Isaac. Captain Isaac Williams and his Grandchildren: The story of a fighting Quaker and three generations of Indiana Pioneers. San Diego, CA, 1963. Bk3700

Part 1, Page 5: Prominent Welsh Settlers - Ellis, Roberts, Pugh, Edward Foulke, etc
Part 1, Page 5: The First Churches
Part 1, Page 6: Gwynedd

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S9 Book:  Williams, Isaac. Captain Isaac Williams and his Grandchildren: The story of a fighting Quaker and three generations of Indiana Pioneers. San Diego, CA, 1963. Bk3700

Part 1, page 6A, B: "History of the Gwynedd Meeting of the Society of Friends"

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S10 Book - Jenkins, Howard M. Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Howard M Jenkins, 1897 - Bk2910 Archive.org - Read Online
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