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Oxford Preparative 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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Friends began meeting in Oxford in 1876, indulged by Pennsgrove and Nottingham. A First-day school was organized at about the same time. Oxford Preparative Meeting was established in 1883, under Nottingham Monthly Meeting. In 1927, the preparative meeting was laid down.
Records of Oxford Preparative Meeting, 1878-1927. Includes minutes 1883-1927, First-day school minutes 1878-1904.
Divided into series: 1.Minutes; 2.Miscellaneous.
Volume 1.1 includes a "History of Oxford Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends from its inception 4th of 6th mo 1876 to 5th mo 1st 1910." Volume 6.1 includes minutes from the Preparative Meeting in 1883 and 1884.
Also available in microfilm, for use in the Library only: MR-B189.
Deposit, Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
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- 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.
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Information on reproduction policies available in the Library.
Collection Inventory
Begins with: "History of Oxford Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends from its inception 4th of 6th month 1876 to 5th mo 1st 1910." Followed by the minutes. Includes loose leaf of the treasurers report 12/7/1924.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B189
1 vol.; 35.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes: At back, the minutes of the Preparative Meeting, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 mo 1883 and 2 mo 1884; Attendence 1880, 1885, 1886 (more -nd); Notes in book: "This having the record of the meeting of friends in Oxford, the person having it in charge is requested to carefully preserve it when done with it please to return it to the meeting" "There is another small book containing minutes of first day school prior to the date 3 mo 1878."
Physical Description1 vol.; 31.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
1 vol.; 19cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite