Fairfax Monthly Meeting Records

Friends of Monocacy and Fairfax Preparative Meetings were given leave by Concord Quarterly Meeting to establish a monthly meeting in 8mo 1744. It first met in 6mo 1745, alternating between Fairfax and Monocacy meeting houses. The meeting continued to grow and Pipe Creek was set off as a monthly meeting in 1776; it included the Friends in Monocacy. In 1785, Fairfax was divided into two, Fairfax Monthly Meeting and a newly-established Goose Creek Monthly Meeting. At that time, Fairfax Monthly Meeting came under Warrington and Fairfax Quarterly Meeting. In 1787, the meeting remained under Fairfax Quarterly Meeting when Warrington and Fairfax Quarterly Meeting was reorganized. In 1789, the meeting was transferred from Philadelphia to Baltimore Yearly Meeting. During the Separation of 1828, the meeting remained with the Hicksite branch of Friends. The small number of Orthodox became part of Hopewell (Orthodox) by 1830. Fairfax faced a continued loss of membership to westward migration during the nineteenth century, and the meeting was laid down in 1926.