Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is a major liberal North American yearly meeting covering Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the surrounding area, including eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, Delaware, and parts of Maryland.
Friends began to settle the area in 1675 with the purchase of land near what is now Burlington, New Jersey, and in 1681 Charles II according to European concepts of land ownership gave William Penn the territory that became known as Pennsylvania.
In 1827 Philadelphia YM split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches, until efforts toward reunification began in the early 20th century, culminating in a reunification in 1955.
It is frequently abbreviated PYM, which causes confusion with Pacific YM.
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