Inscriptions on the Tombstones in the Free Quakers' Graveyard

Inscriptions on the Tombstones in the Free Quakers' Graveyard

Free Quakers were disowned by the Society of Friends for taking up arms during the Revolutionary War. They erected a place of worship at the SW corner of 5th and Arch Streets and established a burial ground on the west side of 5th Street below Locust Street. The Free Quaker burial remains were removed to the Fatlands (also known as the 'Free Quaker Plot’) in Montgomery County in 1905. The relocated, small burial ground is located off Paulings Road in Audubon, PA, near the Schuylkill River and the Audubon Loop of the Schuylkill River Trail, often requiring a short walk into a wooded area to locate. The gravestone inscriptions were transcribed circa the time of removal.

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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia

Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

GSP-200081

Quakers

17XXX/18XX

Members

PGM_Vol3_No2_135-138

1906