Woodbury Friends Meeting House

Woodbury Friends Meeting House
124 North Broad St.
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In the fall of 1777, during the period before and after the Battle of Red Bank which took place three miles from here, the building was occupied by soldiers of both sides. [3]

During the months before the Battle of Red Bank, the Woodbury Friends Meeting House was occupied at times by American militia. The Diary of Job Whitall, a Quaker who lived in the area and attended this meeting house, mentions several occasions.
(Note that his spelling, grammar and capitalization have not been corrected or modernized)

August 8, 1777 - "There was a number of ye militia came in to Woodberry & took possession of our Meetinghouse by geting open one of ye shutters, pushing open ye window & going in thereat."

August 15, 1777 - "Ye Soldiers come back this day & went in to ye Meeting hous."

September 19, 1777 - "Ye Militia had fild our Meetinghouse & schoolhous & several other houses ye forepart of this week."

After the Battle of Red Bank, the Meeting House was used as a Hospital for wounded Hessians. [4]

A month after the battle, British troops occupied the meeting house. Job Whitall's diary entry for November 30, states, "My wife & I went to Meeting at Woodbury in ye Meetinghous for ye first time since ye [British] soldiers had left. [5]

John Cooper is buried in the meeting house's cemetery. (See Cornwallis's Headquarters Marker entry above.)