Philadelphia Area Archives

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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]

Friends Historical Library collection of genealogical manuscripts, 1758-2001 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 linear ft.
Abstract:: This collection consolidates genealogical manuscripts into a single genre -- FHL Genealogical Manuscripts.

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

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]

Friends Historical Library manuscript epistles collection, 1688-1973 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.67 linear ft. (5 document boxes)
Abstract:: The term "epistle" is used to refer to letters exchanged between Quaker organizations, especially from one yearly meeting to another. Epistles are often used to articulate Quaker doctrine and discipline. This collection of various manuscript (handwritten) epistles was compiled from the Friends Historical Library from different sources.

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

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Proceedings Collection, 1707-2004 (inclusive)

Extent:: 13 linear ft. (3 document boxes and 12 linear feet of bound volumes)
Abstract:: This collection consists of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting extracts, or proceedings, from the early 18th through the early 21st centuries, in manuscript or printed form.

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

Centre Monthly Meeting (Centre County, Pa.) Records, 1754-1936 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 linear ft.
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Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Fairfax Monthly Meeting Records, 1718-1941 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 linear ft.
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Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Gunpowder Monthly Meeting Records, 1687-2020 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 linear ft. and 0.1 gb
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Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Hopewell Centre Monthly Meeting Records, 1754-2020 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4.5 linear ft. and 0.1 gb
Abstract:: Records of Hopewell Centre and Hopewell Monthly Meetings, 1754-ongoing.

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

Menallen Monthly Meeting Records, 1733-2017 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3.5 linear ft. and 0.1 gb
Abstract:: Records of Menallen Monthly Meeting, 1755-2019, including men's/women's/joint minutes, vital records, and property and burial records, among others.

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

Nottingham Monthly Meeting Records, 1680-2021 (inclusive)

Extent:: 12 linear ft. and 0.1 gb
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Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Warrington Monthly Meeting (1747-1861) Records, 1739-1876 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 linear ft.
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Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting Records, 1658-2020 (inclusive)

Extent:: 7.5 linear ft. and 0.1 gb
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Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Flushing Monthly Meeting Records, 1725-2013 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 linear ft.
Abstract:: Records of Flushing Monthly Meeting, 1725-2013. Includes: Minutes, 1805-2013; vital records 1725-2001; minutes of Ministry and Counsel, 1907-1971, 2007, 2009.

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

Hardwick and Randolph Monthly Meeting Records (including Hardwick and Mendham), 1714-1854 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.5 linear ft. (13 volumes)
Abstract:: Records of Hardwick and Randolph Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) and its pre-Separation predecessors, Hardwick and Randolph and Hardwick and Mendham Monthly Meetings, 1714-1854. Includes: Men's and women's minutes 1797-1855, births & deaths, 1715-1861, abstract (3 copies) of marriages, 1714-1855, list of members, removals, 1792-1847, and minutes of Ministers and Elders, 1823-1840.

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

Hector Monthly Meetings (Orthodox and Conservative) Records, 1756-1965 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.0 linear ft. (9 volumes)
Abstract:: Records of the Conservative (Wilburite) branch of Hector Monthly Meeting and its predecessor, the pre-schism Orthodox Meeting, including the minutes of both the Otisites and Kingites. Includes: Minutes (men's, women's, and joint), 1830-1950, registers of membership, 1756-1965, the minutes of the Meeting of Ministers & Elders, 1830-1863, Library record, 1860, Publishing Proposal 1824, and Correspondence 1828 and 1923.

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

Junius Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) Records, 1734-1866 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.5 linear ft. (4 volumes)
Abstract:: Records of Junius Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1863 : Galen, N.Y.). Includes minutes, 1815-34 & 1849-63, women's minutes, 1844-63, and membership, 1734-1866.

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

Purchase Monthly Meeting Records, 1725-2016 (inclusive)

Extent:: 7 linear ft. (62 volumes)
Abstract:: Records of Purchase Meeting, 1725-. Includes minutes 1725-2016, vital records 1700-1989, financial records 1834, miscellaneous 1828-1988, and newsletters 1941-1995.

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

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]

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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