Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

found: Vail, H.D. Register, ca. 1872:t.p. (Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends)

found: Its Minutes, 1802-1827(Monthly Meeting held at Rahway; Monthly Meeting held at Plainfield)

found: Its Membership List, 1989(Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends)

found: PSC-Hi files(Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meeting of Friends; hdg. used for pre- and post-Separation records; a monthly meeting at Amboy was est. in 1686 as part of Shrewsbury Quarterly Mtg.; it began to circulate to Woodbridge in 1689; from 1689 to 1704 this mtg. was discontinued due to the Keithian Separation; in 1706 the monthly mtg. was reestablished at Woodbridge; in 1763, Woodbridge Monthly Mtg. began to circulate between Plainfield, Rahway, and Woodbridge; in 1769, the monthly mtg. moved from Woodbridge and alternated between Plainfield and Rahway; its name was changed to Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Mtg.; the Orthodox monthly mtg. was transferred to Burlington Quarterly Mtg. in 1857; it was discontinued in 1910 by Burlington and Bucks Quarterly Mtg., and its members transferred to Chesterfield Monthly Mtg. (Orthodox); the Hicksite monthly mtg. was transferred to New York Yearly Mtg. (Hicksite) in 1833; from 1892 to 1909, the name of this meeting was Plainfield Monthly Mtg. but printed sources continued to use the original form of the name; after 1909, the name of the meeting returned to Rahway and Plainfield)