Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1874-12-10
Brick Meeting House.

s1hE FACTS IN THE HISTORY OF THIS ANCIENT AND
WELT KNOWN HOUSE OF woRsHrP-THE EARLY
wonsHIPPEKs.
East Nottingham Brick Meeting House) il
stnsted in Ceci! county, Maryland, five miles
southwest of Little Elk, five miles east from
Wes, \ Itthigham, and four miles southeast from
Nottingham Station, Philadelphia and Baltimore
Cent? railroad. Mid-week meetings, fifth days
at tea o'clock winter. In 1870 thore were forty
three families and parts Of families. Total 100
members.
Tu.s meeting wa, established in the year 100.
Tue year previous, large number Of Friends
removed from Marcus Hook, on the Delaware,
to Nottingham, at that time deemed far back
IN the wilderness. In the year 100, q meeting
Ii iuse (probibly log one) was built on tract
oi wo,iiand, donated by William Penn to the
Society lat point where six roads meet" This
house neiyed the meeting until l724, when
comilndious brick house WAS erected in its stead,
the bricks having beon imported from England.
In the year l75l this house was accidentally
burnt aud in the following year 1t was rebuilt,
with n stone addition Of equal dimensions with
Tho brick. Strange to relate, tho meeting
house was again burnt in the year 1910,
and IN the next year the present substan-
utai tleeting house WAS erected, one half of
which Is stone, although for more than a centu-
ry, i 1 IS universally been known, far aud wide,
as tile Brick Meeting House." Amongst the
original rettlers the families of the Churchman's,
BROWN, Englsnds, Kinks, and Haines were
prom.nsnt; Of the former, John Churchman WAS
highly esteemed and eminent minister, who
travelled extensively in the Colonies as well as
in Europe, and deceased at Nottingham, seventh
mouth, twenty-fourth, l775. Geo. Churchman,
valued elder and one deeply exercised for the
welfare OF the Church, having in his latter
years, visited nearly all the meetings on thecon-
tlnent, rs we'll al the families Of many of the
meetings, deceased about 1915, aged eghty.live
years, Several others OF the same family were
eminent in their day NJ land surveyors and
C cInveyAncers, but at the present time, not SIN
gle individual Of the name remains. A large
numb OF the descendants OF the Browns, even
to the eighth generation remain in Nottingham
and the adjacent neighborhoods. In 1851 no
less t'iai six OF the family, viz, James, William,
Joshua, Thomas, Esther, and Dinah were ac-
knowle ised ministers in Nottingham Monthly
Mee'iu,s, William was brodher-in-law of Ihn
Cnurcl,inAn, and frequently travelled with him
IN the 1--we of the gospel Joshua WAS among
the first who removed from Nottingham and set
tied In C1nowingo Valley, where Little Britain
Meeting was established. He also Travelled ex-
tenslVe.y ~ . minister, visiting most, If not all,
the III, eiings in the Colonies. 1n 177s while on
religions visit to Friends, who exiled ut Winches-
ter, Virginia, on account OF their testimony
sgainrt sar,and to Friends meetings in Virginia
and the OArolinas, he WAS arrested and with his
com .aons, was thrown into prison, where he
ren aimed nearly Fix months. Finally he was
relS ed. and reached home In safety. lie de-
sea w., vi;nth month, fifteenth, 1898, and WAS bu-
re At Little Britain, having been an acknowl-
edged minister fortyeight years s-Fron Leci
n. f''on"'s ,cork on The Society of Friends .ciM-
N hr Limits of baltimore Yearly Meeting.