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The Quakers of Adolphustown

Photo by Alan L Brown - May, 2004

Photo and transcription by contributor Wayne Adam - December, 2009

Plaque Location

The County of Lennox and Addington
The Town of Greater Napanee
On the south bank of Hay Bay, at the 90 degree bend in South Shore Road about 4 km north of Adolphustown

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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Friends' Meeting House

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