Recently an article published in the July newsletter of one of our local Quaker organizations provided interesting information on the first Quakers to settle in the Chichester area. Reprinted here with the permission of the authors, Rich Ailes and Charles Spadoni
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Chichester Meeting starts in England in the 17th Century where William Clayton, one of the founders of the meeting in the colonies was a member of the Chichester Meeting in Sussex. By the way in England the name is pronounced with a short "i' as in "chit - chester". Follow the links below and search on the page for "William Clayton". http://www.chichesterquakers.org.uk/A_History_of_Chichester_Quakers.html
Detailed historical information can be found in The History of Delaware County by Henry Graham Ashmead found here: https://archive.org/details/cu31924006215655 (see page 450). George Smith's history of Delaware County also has some interesting facts: https://ia601408.us.archive.org/4/items/historyofdelaw00smit/historyofdelaw00smit.pdf (see page 136 for the Chichester name)
The Delaware County Planning Departmenthas a brief history of the township here: http://www.chichesterhistory.org/BRIEF-HISTORY-OF-UPPER-CHICHESTER.pdf
There are voluminous amounts of information on Quakers. Here are two good sources on early Friends: https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/walvin-quakers.html
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/pa-heritage/our-first-friends-early-quakers.html
The National Historic Register process produced a report for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) which has a detailed history of Chichester Meeting with an emphasis on the meetinghouse design and construction here:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/pa/pa3600/pa3602/data/pa3602data.pdf
Information on who is buried in the cemetery is here:
http://www.delawarecountyhistory.com/upperchichestertownship/UpperChiChesterFriendsCemetery.htm
Meetinghouse Wikipedia Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester_Friends_Meetinghouse