The Meeting Minutes below have been compiled from various sources:

• 1696

  • 6 mo. 10th, 1696, ""Robert Pyle reports to this meeting concerning Aston friends to be joyned to Chechester & Concord, that Chester meeting friends have bin Confered with by sum friends of Chechester, and they desired to consider of it till their next monthly meeting.  This meeting continues Robert Pyle, with some women friends, to attend ye next monthly meeting of Chester friends to consumate ye Business."
     
  • 7 mo. 14th, 1696, "Robert Pyle Reports to this meeting that the Bussiness of Joyning Aston friends to the monthly meeting of Chechester & Concord is Efected by Joynt Consent of Chester friends."
     
• 1714
   
  • 7 mo, 13th, 1714, "John Palmer junr & Martha Yearsley appeared here and Declared their intentions of Marriage it being the first time.  Thomas Peirson and Henry Oburn are appointed to make Inquiry into his Clearness relating to marriage, and make report to the next meeting."
     
• 1724
   
  • "ye 1st of ye 3 mo. 1724, John Gore & Marjery Palmer declared their intention of Marriage ye first time, she producing a paper from her father signifying his and his wife's being willing she should proceed in marrying amongst Friends, she also Desiring to come under Friends' care. Hannah Oburn and Elizabeth Walter are to inquire &c."
     

• 1729

  • 5 mo. 7th, 1729, "Elizabeth Dutton is chosen overseer for Chichester meeting, Luce Dutton being removed by death."
     

• 1736/7

  • 1 mo. 7th, 1736-7; "Chichester friends acquaints this meeting that Kingsman Dutton has gone to a priest and was married: this meeting appoints Joseph Pyle and Daniel Brown to spake with him and request him to come to our next monthly meeting."
     
  • 2 mo. 4, 1737; "Those friends which were to spake to Kingsman Dutton reports they have spoke with him, but not appearing here this meeting appoints Joseph Pyle and Daniel Brown to acquaint him that if he do not come to the next meeting to give satisfaction, friends will be nesseated to give Testimony against him, and report to our next meeting."
     
  • 4 mo. 6, 1737; "The friends appointed to spake to Kinsman Dutton reports that he utterly refuses to give any satisfaction for this marrying by a priest, therefore this meeting appoints Joseph Pyle & Ralph Eavenson to draw up a Testimony against him and bring it to our next meeting."
     
  • 5 mo. 4, 1737; "Whereas Kinsman Dutton having been Educated in religious profession with us the people called Quakers, but he not regarding the rules of our Religous Society, he was married by or before a Priest; for which Errour of his he have several times been vissited in order to prevail with hiim to condemn the same, but those vissits not having the Desired Effect, therefore this meeting Declares him the said Kinsman Dutton to be no member of our religious society, until he from a sence of his Errour do Condemn the same, and do make such acknowledgement as shall be to the satisfaction of our said meeting; the which we sinserely desire he may."

Sources:

• Genealogy of the Dutton Family of Pennsylvania, Compiled by Gilbert Cope, 1871.

• Descendants of John and Mary Palmer, by Lewis Palmer, 1875.