Gwynedd Friends Cemetery in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania

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Get directions Route 202 and Sumneytown Pike
Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, USA

Coordinates: 40.20280, -75.25720
www.gwyneddmeeting.org
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Gwynedd Friends Meeting was founded in 1699 by Friends who came from Wales the previous year. Meetings for worship were held in settlers' homes until a log meetinghouse was built in 1700. A second and more permanent building of stone was completed in 1712. The oldest part of the Gwynedd Friends burying ground has stones on only about 10-20% of the graves. Early Philadelphia Friends policy in 1703 stated "no monuments, either of wood or stone" were to be "affixed to graves in any of our burial grounds" as grave stones were considered to be a vain custom. Many of the oldest graves probably never had markers, and there are many areas of the graveyard devoid of markers. Also, burial records, especially from the early period (1715-1749) are incomplete. There are also many unmarked graves of Revolutionary War soldiers who died when Gwynedd meeting-house was used as a hospital after the Battle of Germantown.