Trenton Friends Meeting
In August of 1684, local Quakers meeting in a house established the Chesterfield Monthly Meeting of Friends. The Meeting continued to be held in members' houses despite the growing number of attendees. On January 5, 1691, it was proposed that two Friends meetinghouses be built, one at Chesterfield (modern Crosswicks) and the other at the Falls of the Delaware (Trenton). That discussion continued at each subsequent monthly meeting until it was decided on June 6 to build at Chesterfield only. Finally, on December 2, 1737, the meetinghouse at Trenton was formally proposed again, and agreed to the following month. The original structure, built in 1739, survives within a slightly enlarged building.
[credit: engraving by George A. Bradshaw for A History of Trenton, 1679-1929]