If I understand all of the following correctly, Pine Street Meeting was established as a part of the Philadelphia MM sometime before 1766 and became the meeting place of the Southern District MM which was set off from Philadelphia MM in 1772. It existed through sometime after 1826 and was gone by 1940. One of the John T. Humphrey books mentioned below (which I don't happen to have) should more definitively state when it was established. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jrichmon/quaker/qksrcsec.htm: Records of the Pine Street Monthly Meeting are abstracted in both "Pennsylvania Births, Philadelphia County, 1644-1765" and "Pennsylvania Births, Philadelphia County, 1766-1780", both by John T. Humphrey, suggesting that it must have existed before 1766. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Volume II, by William Wade Hinshaw, 1938, p. 329: "A monthly meeting for the Southern District [of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting] was also established in 1772, meeting at first in a building on Fourth street near Chestnut, but soon going to the 'Hill meeting', so-called, on the south side of Pine street, below Second." http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display.cfm/66930: "Status: ... Demolished... Location: ... Pine Street between Front and Second Streets, Philadelphia, PA" http://www.qhpress.org/quakerpages/qwhp/hcjnh1.htm: "In 1756 a meeting for Negroes in Philadelphia was again proposed and finally it was arranged to hold it quarterly on the Fourth day following each Quarterly meeting "at the Bank Meeting House at 3 o'clock P.M. It was probably held continuously for nearly half a century. It is frequently mentioned towards the year 1800 by diaries of Friends visiting Philadelphia. It was apparently held, then, on Third day afternoon. The meeting houses on Pine Street and on Market Street are both mentioned. The last meeting of the sort was held in 5th month, 1805..." http://www.gwyneddfriends.org/mott.html: "James and Lucretia Mott] were given parental consent to marry in the early spring of 1811. They were married at Pine Street Meeting House in Philadelphia on 10 April 1811." http://www.qhpress.org/quakerpages/qhoa/19thhicksite.htm: "Sermon delivered by Elias Hicks; Responses to Hicks by Jonathan Evans and Isaac Lloyd; and Responses to them by Elias Hicks and Willet Hicks. Delivered at Pine Street Meeting in Philadelphia, December 10, 1826." Jeff Palmer - jap@highstream.net * * * Quote of the Week: “It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.” -- David Hume -----Original Message----- From: P Smith [HYPERLINK "mailto:parsleyinkansas@yahoo.com"mailto:parsleyinkansas@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 12:34 PM To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Q-R] early Philadelphia Meeting - Pine Street MM Does anyone know of an 18th century Meeting in the Philadelphia, PA, area called the PINE STREET MONTHLY MEETING? What dates might it have been in use? Thanks. Lucy Smith Cottonwood Falls, KS -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.1.0 - Release Date: 2/18/2005