WOLFERT STATION ROAD
MICKLETON, NJ


Present day sign at Solomon's Graveyard, photograph by Janice Brown

On November 3, 1741, Solomon Lippincott at the age of 21 bought 200 acres of land from Mary Coles near the present Solomon's Graveyard on Wolfert Station Road. On December 13, 1756, permission was granted by Haddonfield Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends to "divers Friends who lived near Raccoon Creek" to hold "an indulged meeting" for worship at Solomon Lippincott's home. The meeting at that time was known as "Solomon's Meeting." His house was located about where Anna Pennel was living in 1981 on Wolfert Station Road.

2004 Photograph of Solomon's Graveyard,
photograph by Janice Brown

One of the early burials in Solomon's Graveyard was Elizabeth Clark Weatherby (1764-1795). She was the wife of Edmund Weatherby and the daughter of Thomas and Christian Clark. In her father's Journal, he reports that she was "buried at Solomon's Meeting."

Tombstone of Jacob Justice, photograph by Janice Brown

In 1822 Samuel Paul left $60 to the meeting for keeping up the fence around Solomon's Graveyard. He is buried there and his bequest, along with other funds, was used to build the graveyard's brick wall.

ALSO SEE the History of Friends Meeting.