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Centre Quarterly Meeting 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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Centre Quarterly Meeting was established by Baltimore Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) in 5mo 1835 at Dunnings Creek, with monthly meetings at Dunnings Creek, Centre, and West Branch. The Orthodox Yearly Meeting established Dunnings Creek Quarterly Meeting in 1839, composed of Dunnings Creek, Centre, and, by 1899, Curwensville; Dunnings Creek Quarterly Meeting was laid down in 1919.
Records of Centre Quarterly Meeting, 1835-1994. Includes men's and joint minutes 1835-1994 and women's minutes 1835-85.
Divided into series: 1.Men's and Joint Minutes; 2.Women's minutes.
Vol. 1.3 includes memorials of Mary J. Miller, W. Dorsey Blackburn, Uriah Blackburn. Vol. 2.1 includes extracts of minutes from men's monthly meeting (1910, 1916).
Also available in microfilm, for use in the Library only: MR-B98.
Deposit, Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
Organization
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Centre Quarterly Meeting
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1968). -- Centre Quarterly Meeting
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- 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
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B98
1 vol.; 30.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Title page marked: "Minutes of the Centre Quarterly Meeting Pa Comencing 6 mo. 1 1874." Note: Minutes after 6 mo 1872 and before 6 mo 1874 were lost.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B98
1 vol.; 32.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Title page marked: "Records of the Minutes of Centre Quarterly Meeting of Friends 1917." Includes memorials of Mary J. Miller, W. Dorsey Blackburn, and Uriah Blackburn (back of volume).
Physical Description1 vol.; 36 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B98
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Title page marked: "Minutes Centre Quarterly Meeting Centre Co. Pa. Womens Friends 5th mo 11th- 1835 To 6th mo 1st 1885." Includes extracts of minutes from men's monthly meeting (1910, 1916, loose sheets).
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B98
1 vol; 31 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College