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Yearly Meeting Extracts from their Minutes

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Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
MC.970
Repository:
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Extent:
0.63 linear ft. (2 document boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Yearly Meeting Extracts from their Minutes (HC.MC.970), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.
Date:
1732-1842, 1971 (inclusive)
Form:
extracts
Abstract:
The collection contains copies of extracts of minutes of meetings within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1732-1799. Topics include church unity and discipline, the growth of Quakerism, slavery, Native Americans, temperance, education, and religious doctrines.

The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM), which organizes Monthly Quaker Meetings in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, was founded in the early 18th century and is now one of the largest Yearly Meetings in the United States. The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is a member of the Friends General Conference.

This collection consists of Yearly Meeting extracts, or proceedings, primarily from the mid 18th through the mid 19th centuries, in manuscript (handwritten) or printed form. Prior to the 19th century, clerks created an abstracted report of the events at Yearly Meeting in the form of extracts from the minutes. They then copied and re-copied the extracts to be distributed to Quarterly Meetings and other constituents.

A collection of contemporary copies of extracts of the minutes of various meetings within the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, devoted to the promotion of church unity and discipline, and presenting a picture of the growth and progress of Quakerism. These papers contain the names of the prominent Quaker leaders of the time, and incidentally reflect the political and social issues of the American colonies, such as slavery, Native Americans, temperance, education, religious doctrines, and other subjects. Of interest are the minutes of 1778, which shed light on Quaker attitude against complying with the law of declaration of allegiance and abjuration and the paying of taxes for war purposes.

This collection also includes extracts from Baltimore, London, Dublin, and Central America Yearly Meetings

The extracts are arranged by Yearly Meeting and then chronologically.

Acquired over time, exact acquisitions unknown, unless notes in scope and contents note

Original processing unknown, reprocessed by Mary Crauderueff, February 2023

Organization

Publisher
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
Original processing unknown, reprocessed by Mary Crauderueff
Finding Aid Date
February, 2023
Access Restrictions

The collection is open to research use.

Use Restrictions

Standard Federal Copyright Law apply (U.S. Title 17).

Collection Inventory

Handwritten epistles, Yearly Meeting held at Burlington and Philadelphia, 1732-1733, 1735.
Box 1
Handwritten epistles, Yearly Meeting held at Burlington and Philadelphia, 1749.
Box 1
Handwritten epistles, Yearly Meeting held at Burlington and Philadelphia, 1753, 1755, 1757.
Box 1
Handwritten epistles, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1760-1763, 1765.
Box 1
Handwritten epistles, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1778.
Box 1
Handwritten epistles, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1781-1789.
Box 1
Handwritten epistles, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1790-1799.
Box 1
Bound, handwritten epistles, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1764-1790.
Box 1
Printed epistles, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1800-1810.
Box 1
Printed epistles, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1811-1819.
Box 1
Printed epistles, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1820-1829.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

One copy of 1829 epistle bought Jauary 2023 from David M. Lesser

Printed epistles, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1830-1839.
Box 1
Printed epistles, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1840-1849.
Box 2
Printed epistles, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1851-1855, 1859.
Box 2
Printed epistles, Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting, 1842.
Box 2
Handwritten epistles, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, 1832, 1841, 1848.
Box 2
Handwritten epistles, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, 1790, 1793, 1795, 1797, 1799, 1800, 1803.
Box 2
Handwritten epistles, London Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, 1812, 1813, 1815, 1827, 1832-1835, 1837, 1839-1841.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Gift of Henry Coleman Webster, March 1989

Handwritten epistles, Dublin Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, 1837-1841.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Gift of Henry Coleman Webster, March 1989

Central America Yearly Meeting of Friends, 1971.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Both English and Spanish versions, gift of the Yearly Meeting, 1971

Print, Suggest