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Pipe Creek Monthly 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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Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting, set off from Fairfax Monthly Meeting in 1772, was composed of Pipe Creek and Bush Creek Preparative Meetings. Worship began at Pipe Creek in 1736, under Fairfax Monthly Meeting. In 1759, Pipe Creek became a Preparative Meeting under Western Quarterly Meeting. Bush Creek Preparative Meeting began in 1764. The Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting alternated between Bush Creek and Pipe Creek. Monocacy meeting members were joined in 1776. During the Separation of 1828, the meeting affiliated with the Hicksite branch of Friends. It became a united meeting in 1972 and is still active today.
Records of Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting, 1691-2023. Includes men's and joint minutes 1772-2023 [gaps], women's minutes 1772-1885, vital records and membership 1691-2013, Ministers and Elders minutes 1881-1913 and 1963-96, financial and property records 1771-2006, and miscellaneous 1885-2006. Also includes Pipe Creek Preparative Meeting minutes, 1891-1904, in volume 1891-1921.
Divided into series: 1.Men's and Joint Minutes; 2.Women's Minutes; 3.Vital Records; 4.Ministers & Elders; 5.Financial and Property Records; 6.Miscellaneous.
Vol. 1.16 contains Pipe Creek Preparative Minutes 1891-1904. Vol. 3.3 contains the marriage certificate for Joseph Farquhar and Maira Ogborn. Vol. 3.4 contains certificates for Richard Heckman to Evelyn Fuss, Edward Knowles to Elizabeth Cook, and Glen Cardner to Virginia Powel. Vol. 5.8 includes 1831 deed reselling Quaker meeting house land, 1800 copy of "resurvey on Forrest in Need," 1772 copy and note on deed from William Farquhar junior. Vol. 6.2 contains meeting history, history of Western Maryland Quakers, and Farquhar family history. Vol. 6.3 contains Farquhar family history, Elgar family, notes on Phineas Davis, biographical notes on members, Amos Davidson correspondence (1935-1993), tape of Roger Boone reading letters from the John Scott Davenport-Hoover family, and Personal reflections on meetings for Worship by Amos Davidson. Vol. 6.21 contains will of Edna M. Fuss and notes on Farquhar wills.
Deposit. Digital records from the 2010s deposited by Wayne Finegar, General Secretary of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, in 2020.
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- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Date
- 2005
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Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.
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Information on reproduction policies available in the Library.
Collection Inventory
Begins with "An account of the first settling of Friends and Establisment [sic] of Meetings at Pipe and Bush Creek by way of Introduction to the following records."
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B174
- Haverford: B9B
1 vol.; 32.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
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Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B193
1 vol.; 32.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
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Weather descriptions on back of front cover (1843-1883)
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B195
1 vol.; 32.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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Note in volume states "Memoranda by Jessi Smith made 11.10.89."
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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"Minutes of Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting from 9-18-1810 to 12-13-1817." Rough draft
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B195
1 vol.; 22 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
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Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B196
1 vol.; 16.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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"Minutes of Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting 6th Mo 16th 1888."
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B196
1 vol.; 15 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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"Minutes of Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting beginning 7th Month 18th 1896 and ending 12th mo 15th 1900."
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B196
1 vol.; 17.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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Photocopies.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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"Minutes of Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting beginning 1st month 19th 1901."
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B193
1 vol.; 15.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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List of events and page numbers compiled. Recopied from other volumes.
Physical Description1 vol.; 34 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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Includes Pipe Creek Preparative Meeting minutes to 1914, and Monthly Meeting minutes from 9th mo 20 1914 to 8th mo 14 1921 (beginning pp. 117)
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B199
1 vol.; 29.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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With additions, 1978; recopied into RG2/B/P571 1.4 (1889-1962).
Physical Description1 vol.; 26.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B198
1 vol.; 29 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
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2 folders
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Minutes 1979-2005 2mo, 2005 12mo, and 2006 8 mo.
Physical Description1 box
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Digital business minutes, with gaps, from September 2018 through July 2023
Physical Description17 PDF and DOC files
"Minutes of Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting of Women Friends 1772 to 1832." Fragile.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B197
1 vol.; 32.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
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1885 began joint sessions with the men.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B197
1 vol.; 31.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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Indexed Includes births & deaths, 1691-1881 Cover: "Pipe Creek Records, Births Burials Marriage certificates for 1773 to (?)" Title: "Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting Register for Marriage Certificates, Births and Burials Book A."
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B193
1 vol.; 33 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
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"Record of Marriage Certficates Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends Vol II."
Physical Description1 vol.; 36 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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Joseph Farquhar & Maria Ogborn.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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Certificates for: Richard Heckman and Evelyn Fuss, Edward Knowles and Elizabeth Cook, Glen Gardner ad Virginia Powel.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
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Copy of John Farquhar and Elizabeth Ogborn certificate; Notes from Newgarden Monthly Meeting 1732-36; Samuel Plummer and Sarah Miles marriage certificate copy (1723).
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
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1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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"Record of Membership of Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting of Freinds from Eleventh Month 1881 to ..." Page of note on oldest members in the book; alphabetized.
Physical Description1 vol.; 27 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
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1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
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Includes Lydia L. Smith's 1881 certificate of transfer from Baltimore MM.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
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1 folders
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1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
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1 folders
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1 folders
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"A Record of Certificates." Indexed. Includes removals sent.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B174
- Haverford: B9B
1 vol.; 20.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
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1 PDF file
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2 PDF files
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"Minutes of Pipe Creek Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders 11th Mo 9th 1881." Discontinued 8th mo 1913.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B199
1 vol.; 15 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/H/United
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Includes: 1831 -- Copy and original deed reselling Quaker meeting house land as original deed from William Farquhar the Elder and William Farquhar the younger was not filed in time in 1771; 1800 --copy Solomon Shepard and William Farquhar land of "resurvey on Forrest in Need"; 1800 -- Copy William Farquhar sold land of "resurvey on Forrest in Need" Note on deed from 1772; Copy of 1772 deed from William Farquhar junior.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
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"Pipe Creek Friends Meeting Financial Records."
Physical Description1 vol.; 29 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
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1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
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Union Bridge Bank, Savings.
Physical Description1 vol.; 14 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
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Union Bridge Bank, Checking.
Physical Description1 vol.; 12 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
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Farmers & Mechanics National Bank, Union Bridge Maryland, Savings.
Physical Description1 vol.; 11.5 cm
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Farmers & Mechanics National Bank, Union Bridge Maryland, Checking Title: "Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends Amos Davidson, Treas. 1/1/73."
Physical Description1 vol.; 11.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
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1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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1 folders
1 folders
"Ethics and Theology in the Hicksite Separation" Amos Davidson
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
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Includes Meeting history, n.d.; History of Western Maryland Quakers, n.d.; History of Meetinghouse and grounds, n.d.; Notes on meeting history, n.d.; Farquhar family history.
Physical Description1 box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
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Includes Farquhar family, n.d.; Elgar family, n.d.; Phineas Davis (1795 - 1835), n.d.; Members connected with the invention of the reaper, n.d.; Miscellaneous genealogical and biographical notes on members, n.d.; Amos Davidson correspondence 1935-1993; Roger Boone reading letters from John Scott; Davenport-Hoover family; Personal reflections on meetings for worship by Amos Davidson, 1983-1989.
Physical Description1 box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
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1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
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1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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"Correspondence about attempts to get a road marker put up for Monocacy Meeting in Buckeytown."
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
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1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
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"Index of personal names found in 'Notes from the Records of Old Monocacy' by Dr. Grace Louise Tracey, compiled 1967 by Jacob M. Holdcraft."
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
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"Book list of Friends Records in the fire proof vault of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, Park Avenue, City of Baltimore, State of Maryland, 1937."
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
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1 folder
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1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
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Includes photocopies from The Christian Century, Friends Journal, and Quaker Life.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
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1 vol.; 29.5 cm
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"The Pipe Creek Current"
Physical Description1 folder
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1 folder
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1 folder
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Pipe Creek Temperance Committee changed its name to the Pipe creek Philanhropic Committee on 1/2/1887.
Physical Description1 vol.; 17 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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Will of Edna M. Fuss 1980; Notes on Farquhar wills.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
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Includes photographs (2).
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