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Friends Historical Library album collection, 1656-1957 (inclusive)

Extent:
13 linear ft.
Abstract:
This collection consists of scrapbooks, commonplace books, class notebooks, autograph albums, piecebooks, and other albums that were received by the Friends Historical Library as individual volumes and not as part of a larger collection.,

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Friends Historical Library Collection of miscellaneous manuscripts, 1547-1994 (inclusive)

Extent:
40 linear ft.
Abstract:
The Society of Friends or Quakers (today the terms are synonymous) was founded in the middle of the seventeenth century in England by George Fox and others. The Friends Historical Library Miscellaneous Manuscripts is an artificial collection, established in the middle of the 20th century to store single and very small groups of manuscripts and documents, both originals and copies. The collection includes holdings relevant to antislavery, temperance, women's rights, penal reform, and other social concerns of Quakers in the United States and in England.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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New York Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records, 1663-1957 (inclusive)

Extent:
12 linear ft. (86 volumes (plus 16 folders))
Abstract:
Records of New York Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). Includes: minutes, vital Records records of Ministry and Oversight, financial and property Records School Trustees' Records Social Committee, Home and Foreign Mission Auxiliary, Overseers of the Poor, and cemetary records for Houston Street and Prospect Park.

Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting (1672-1927) Records, 1650-1920 (inclusive)

Extent:
3 linear ft.
Abstract:
Records of the Monthly Meeting of Friends held at Shrewsbury, 1650-1920. Includes men's minutes, 1732-1920, women's minutes, 1680-1891, vital records, 1650-1914, and other miscellaneous records.

Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Westbury Monthly Meeting Records, 1660-2020 (inclusive)

Extent:
18 linear ft.
Abstract:
Records of Westbury Monthly Meeting, 1660-. Includes minutes 1697-2018; vital records 1660-1995; deeds, 1685-1745; financial records 1723-1931; Ministers and Elders, 1819-1973; and miscellaneous materials, 1696-1995. In 1828 the Hicksite Separation divided the meeting and the Orthodox branch (which was active 1828-1938) records are described separately, following the arrangement maintained by New York Yearly Meeting's Haviland Records Room, from where the records were transfered in 1997.

Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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