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Woodward & Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties. 1883 The second church built in Vincentown was by the Friends. The deed for the land upon which it was built was given by Mrs. Anna Leeds, widow of Vincent Leeds, to the Mount Holly Meeting of Friends, July 12, 1781, for the sum of five shillings. The names of the first trustees were Samuel Hilliard, William Bishop, Hudson Burr, William Burr, John White, and Isaac Barton. The original meeting-house was built of logs, and occupied for many years. It stood on the site occupied by the present one, and in 1813 it gave way to the present brick structure. The building known to be the old Quaker meeting-house now stands in the southwest corner of Gen. John S. Irick’s lumber-yard, on Main Street, and is occupied as a dwelling. The original school-house in Vincentown stood in the old graveyard in rear of the Friends’ meeting-house and was removed many years ago. The original lot sold by Mrs. Leeds to the trustees of Friends’ Meeting contained about two acres of land. When Gen. Irick established his lumber-yard here he purchased about half of the original grant of Mrs. Leeds to trustees, which is now occupied for lumber-yard purposes. There has been no regular service in the Vincentown Friends’ meeting-house for several years, and it is occupied only upon funeral and especial occasions.
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