The beginnings of the
Old School Baptist Meetinghouse in Southampton go back to John
Hart and to 1682, the year Pennsylvania was founded.
John Hart, a Quaker freeholder of Whitney in Oxfordshire was a
First Purchaser. In England he bought a thousand acres from
William Penn, the present site of Ivyland.
Fifty-five persons who had been members of the Pennypack Baptist
Meeting, some for more than 50 years, petition for dismissal to
form their own church at Southampton in 1746.
Southampton Tricentennial 1685-1985
The original 55 members.
Rachel Dungan Susarnch? Thomas
Elizabeth Bato?nin Elizabeth Hellings
Rebeckah Humphrys Mary Newman
Ann Potts Sarah Stephens
Elizabeth Morforo Mary Parry, a Negroe
Sarah Neefty Lucy Chamberlin
Joanna Gilbert Eleanor Hart
Elizabeth Yerkes Elizabeth Watts
Sarah Shan Mary Dungan
Grace Morgan Sarah Murray
Esther Banes Mary Jones
Mary Gilbert
Elizabeth Hart Jane Yerkes
John Jones Clement Dungan
David Dungan James Dungan
David Rees Joseph Banes
John Batenin Joseph Hart
Lewis Rees Isaac Eaton
Silas Yerkes
Oliver Hart John M. Hellings
Thomas Dungan Jeremiah Dungan
Thomas Potts Nicholas Gilbert
Robert Parsons Samuel Gilbert
John Hart Thomas Dungan, Jr.
Stephen Watts
Joshua Potts ?? Morgan
John Eaton John Morforo
John Harrison John Shaw 1.
1682 John Hart arrives from England
1692 Worship group meets in Southampton Farm Houses
1731 First meeting house built of logs
1772 Stone Meetinghouse erected at the present site
1814 Meetinghouse remodeled as it is at present site
1977 Designated as National Historic Site 1..
1. Three Centuries of History Southampton Pennsylvania (Gus
Wiencke).
The meeting house is located on 2nd Street Pike in Southampton
PA. and The building remains in it’s original state. Thanksgiving
non-denominational services are held each year. The source was
written in script and difficult to read, see tombstone
inscriptions, for additional names
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