Hicksite Brown Friends Cemetery in Ajax, Ontario

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Get directions 310 Kingston Road East
Ajax, Durham Regional Municipality, Ontario Canada

Coordinates: 43.86551, -79.01088
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Society of Friends Cemetery / Hicksite

The Hicksite / Brown Cemetery is a Quaker burial ground owned by the Religious Society of Friends. Nicholas Brown and his family moved to Pickering Village (then Duffin's Creek) in 1808. Along with 20 other Quaker families, they had come with Timothy Rogers to establish a settlement in the area. The Quaker community was divided by the Hicksite Separation in 1828. A brick meeting house, built on this site around 1834, served the Hicksite Friends until the early 20th century. It was destroyed by fire in 1931. There are just over 100 gravestones on this site, of which more than half are inscribed with the name Brown. - Designated under the Ontario Heritage Act.