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Baltimore Monthly Meeting for the Eastern District Records
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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Friends began meeting in what became the City of Baltimore in 1781 after moving from Patapsco, and in 1792 Baltimore Monthly Meeting was formed. The meeting grew quickly, and in 1805 a second meeting house was built on Lombard Street. In 1807, the large number of Friends in Baltimore led to the creation of a second monthly meeting. Baltimore Monthly Meeting changed its name to the Baltimore Monthly Meeting for the Eastern District, and the new meeting at Lombard Street became the Baltimore Monthly Meeting for the Western District. Tensions over the Aisquith St. graveyard arose, and resulted in the laying down of Baltimore Monthly Meeting for the Eastern District by the Yearly Meeting; it became a Preparative meeting under Baltimore Monthly Meeting for the Western District.
Records of Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends for the Eastern District, and its predecessor Baltimore Monthly Meeting (1792-1807), 1729-1819. Includes men's and joint minutes 1792-1819, women's minutes 1792-1819, vital records 1729-1819, financial and property records 1806-1819, and miscellaneous 1783-1819.
Divided into series: Men's and Joint Minutes; Women's Minutes; Vital Records; Financial and Property Records; Miscellaneous.
The records of Baltimore Monthly Meeting after 1807 have been described in another finding aid: http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/speccoll/bym/balsrmm.xml
Also available in microfilm, for use in the Library only: MR-B10,14,16,25,27
Deposit, Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
Organization
- Baltimore Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1792-1807 : Baltimore, Md.)
- Baltimore Monthly Meeting for the Eastern District (Society of Friends : 1807-1819 : Baltimore, Md.)
Subject
Place
- Publisher
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Date
- 2005
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.
- Use Restrictions
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Information on reproduction policies available in the Library.
Collection Inventory
Includes copy of minute from the Gunpowder Quarterly Meeting that formed Baltimore MM and a list of the Baltimore PM members Includes notes from 1799 on land (called Friendship) and transfers on which the meeting house and burial ground of Patapsco were built at end of the volume.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B14
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Marks beginnning of Lombard St Preparative Meeting in 1805. Extract from Baltimore QM minutes 5th mo 4th 1807 declaring Eastern and Western districts. Includes Eastern District 1807-1810.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B14
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rough draft. 1808 is Eastern District. Contains loose minutes from 3rd mo 1816
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B16
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B14
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
"Minutes and Proceedings of the Monthly Meeting of Baltimore for the Eastern District from 11th Mo 1817 to the 11th mo 1819." Includes the final Monthly Meeting minutes, before discontinued.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B14
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B16/B32
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
"List of Births, Deaths of the members which belong to Baltimore Monthly Meeting froms its first institution, commencing the 3rd of the 4th Month 1793, Joseph Townsend." Includes records of Eastern District 1807-1813. Indexed. Indicates those removed to Western District
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B27
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
"Baltimore Monthly Meeting record of Marriage Certificates." Includes Baltimore Monthly Meeting 1794-1807.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B10
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
removals sent, except for one received the 3rd mo 1796. Includes the Eastern District 1807-1819. The first 20 pages are missing.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B25
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Removal sent: Original certificate of Richard Richardson to Frederick County, Maryland
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Removals received, original certificates: 1801- Phillip Dennis, wife Hannah, and 5 minor children from Falls MM; 1805- Michael Miller Masline from Cecil Monthly Meeting; applied for by father Thomas Masline as Michael apprenticed in MD; 1806- Hannah Stapler from Wilmington Monthly Meeting.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
"Treasurers Accounts." Includes summary of accounts through 1811 compiled by a committee and John Dukehart treasurer.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B27
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
"Records of Baltimore Monthly Meeting for the Eastern District Ledger from 1807 to 1819" (written later)
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B27
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Notes to pay money to the poor and "charitable causes."
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
"Extracts of Minutes and Advices of the Yearly Meeting of Friends, London." On title page: "This book was paid for by James Backhouse, 1783."
Physical Description1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
"Minutes of the Baltimore case, the laying down of a monthly meeting." Copied from Western District minutes, pertaining to the Eastern District refusal to allow the Western District to use the burial grounds.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College