Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-05-07

difficulty and uneasiness that had arisen,
respecting the interments in the burying
ground, near where the old meeting house
stood, OF such as had not right in mem
bership with Friends, unitedly agreed to
establish burying ground on part Of the
ground belonging to Friends near where the
new meeting house stands, to be continued
select for members Of the religious Society
Of Friends
The subject being revived at our Prepara-
tive Meeting held the first day of the Fifth
month, eighteen hundred and seventeen, il
was concluded that the said agreement be
recorded =
The above rule was adheared to till near
the middle of the last century, when few
others than members were inferred in this
grave yard, since which time the practice
has grown. No charge has ever been made
for space occupied in either burying ground.
In 1903, Samuel Mickle and Samuel
Tonkin each donated one acre and five
perches Of land adjoining the meeting house
! lot, at now Mickleton, for the purpose Of
building or erecting school house, and all
such buildings, fences, ETC., thereon as may
be convenient and necessary, for the accom-
mediation Of holding school for the Society
and Others"
sat a Preparative Meeting held at Upper
/ Greenwich the fifth day OF First month,
j 1909, = "a proposal was made in said meet
ing to erect school house 27x33 feet, for
the education Of youth on lot of ground
belonging to Friends of said meeting, pro-
vided for that purpose, to be under the care
of the members OF said Preparatiye Meet
ing by appointing committee annually to
! provide tutors to superintend in said
school, and to make report of the state
thereof to the Preparatiye Meeting, at the
end of their term Which said proposal
being united with Samuel Tonkin, Samuel
SMickle, William Allen, William Pine, and
George Mickle were appointed as managers
to have the said house erected The
bricks were made on what is now Elmer
Bradshaw's farm, then part of William
Pine's).
One year later, at a Preparative Meeting
held at Upper Greenwich the fourth Of
! First month, 1910, the committee who
were appointed in first month, last, tc
erect school house, report that the said
house is now erected, and Samuel Paul,
Thomas Clark, Josiah Stokes William
Beckett and William Haines are appointed
a committee to have care and oversight
thereof, and to report Of the state thereof to
the Preparatiye Meeting in First month,
next. The committee to meet at the school
house on the last Fifth-day in every month,
at 2 o'clock p. m.n
From that date. until the present, there has
been like committee appointed annually
for a similar purpose, except that for many
years, part of the committee has been
composed of women, and the committee
still reports annually to the Preparative
Meeting, as at first arranged, and meets
monthly.
j From the time this school house was
erected, until 1874, there was no other
public school in this vicinity, and all other
children enjoyed equal rights with those Of
Friends. The people at large were perfectly
satisfied with the management, and they
were exempt from any expense incurred, in
keeping the school house and ample grounds
in repair.
4 BENZ. HERITAGE.
i Mickleton, N. j., 4 Mo. 18th, 1903.