John Feake and the First Quaker Meeting House

John Feake born 1638 in Matinecock, Oyster Bay, Long Island. It has been presumed that he is the son of Robert Feake and Elizabeth Winthrop Fones, although I have not located this couple on Long Island. We will leave that for future research.

John was a Quaker and he is best known for undertaking the construction of the first Quaker Meeting House on Long Island in 1673 with his friend Samuel Andrews. It was located in Flushing, Queens across from where the North Shore Bank stood in 1940. A new structure was built in 1698 and is the oldest religious structure still standing in Queens today.

John Feake married Elizabeth Prior. They raised their family in Matinecock, Oyster Bay, Long Island (formally Queens).