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The Quakers of Adolphustown
Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted December, 2010
Photo from Google Street View ©2014 Google - Posted January, 2014
Photo by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted December, 2009
Plaque Location
The County of Lennox & Addington
The Town of Greater Napanee
On the south bank of Hay Bay
at the 90 degree bend in South Shore Road (Road 8)
4 km north of Road 33
Coordinates: N 44 05.867 W 77 01.688 |
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Plaque Text
The first Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in either Upper or Lower Canada was organized in Adolphustown Township in 1798 at the house of Philip Dorland. Quakers had settled in this district in 1784 and at first held religious gatherings in private homes. In 1795 a frame meeting house was authorized and shortly thereafter it was erected on this site. A Monthly Meeting was formed in 1801 which aided the formation of further Quaker Meetings in the Bay of Quinte area. A new meeting house was built here in 1868 but was abandoned after the Monthly Meeting was discontinued in 1871 and only this burying ground remains.
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