South Murderkill Hundred in Magnolia in Kent County, Delaware — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Murderkill/Motherkiln Friends Meeting

Photographed by Pete Skillman, August 26, 2025

1. Murderkill/Motherkiln Friends Meeting Marker

Inscription. By 1712, Quakers of the Religious Society of Friends met "at the widow Needham's at Murderkill Creek," later establishing as Motherkiln Preparative Meeting. Circa 1760, a meetinghouse was constructed on this site. The structure burned soon thereafter, and for a time the Friends debated locating to a site near Tidbury Creek. A brick meetinghouse was built here, but by 1814 members were considering relocation to Camden, where a preparative meeting had been established in 1805. By 1828, worship at this site had ceased, and in 1839 the Motherkiln and Duck Creek meetings combined with the Camden Preparative Meeting, forming Camden Monthly Meeting of Friends.

Erected 2022 by Delaware Public Archives. (Marker Number KC-90.)

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Colonial Era • Religion & Religious Structures. In addition, it is included in the Delaware Public Archives, and the Quakerism series lists. A significant historical year for this entry is 1712.

Location. 39° 4.544′ N, 75° 28.755′ W. Marker is in Magnolia, Delaware, in Kent County. It is in South

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Murderkill Hundred. It is on South State Street, on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 5234 S State St, Magnolia DE 19962, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the American Mid-Atlantic

and on the Delmarva Peninsula.

Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Netherland,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Warner Mifflin 1745-1798 (here, next to this marker); Banning Meeting House (approx. 1.4 miles away); The St. Jones River: Why the Mansion Faces South (approx. 2.4 miles away); The Dickinsons in Delaware (approx. 2½ miles away); Toward a Future Union (approx. 2½ miles away); Home of John Dickinson (approx. 2½ miles away); St. Jones Neck (approx. 2.7 miles away); U-3A (approx. 3.1 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Magnolia.

Other

Murderkill/Motherkiln Friends Meeting Marker - wide view image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Pete Skillman, August 26, 2025

2. Murderkill/Motherkiln Friends Meeting Marker - wide view

markers no longer nearby. Warner Mifflin (was here, next to this marker but has been replaced with another marker now near it); Murderkill / Motherkiln Friends Meeting (was here, next to this marker but has been replaced with another marker now near it).

Credits. This page was last revised on May 15, 2026. It was originally submitted on August 26, 2025, by Pete Skillman of Townsend, Delaware. This page has been viewed 87 times since then and 21 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on August 26, 2025, by Pete Skillman of Townsend, Delaware.