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Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting Records
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The lineage of Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting begins with the Clifts in 1677. This monthly meeting met variously at Clifts and West River from 1698 until 1750. In 1750, the meeting changed its name to Herring Creek Monthly Meeting and met at West River, Herring Creek, and Indian Spring. From 1771 through 1778, it was referred to as West River Monthly Meeting, and continued to rotate between the three locations. Due to declining membership, the meeting met consistantly at Indian Spring from 1778 to 1795 and bore the name of that meeting. Beginning in 1795, Indian Spring Monthly Meeting rotated between Indian Spring and Sandy Spring. During the Separation of 1828, most of the membership affiliated with the Hicksite branch of Friends. In 1846, the Hicksite meeting formally adopted the name, Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting, by which it is known as today. In 1949, Sandy Spring and Ashton Monthly Meetings united to form the Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting of Friends (United).
The small number of Orthodox Friends eventually joined Baltimore Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), identified as the Indian Spring Preparative Meeting, Orthodox. This meeting was discontinued in 1841 and membership joined to Baltimore Preparative for Eastern and Western Districts.
Records of Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting and its predecessors at Clifts, Herring Creek, and Indian Spring, 1658-1992-2013. Includes men's and joint minutes 1677-2013, women's minutes 1776-1891, vital records 1658-1992, Ministers and Elders minutes 1918-62, financial and property records 1739-1950,and miscellaneous 1823-99. Also includes the minutes of Indian Spring Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1829-1841.
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. 1.9 includes a list of meeting dates. Vol. 1.10 and 1.12 include dates of meetings and appointments. Vol.1.16 includes committee listings and misc. correspondence to Baltimore Yearly Meeting. Vol. 1.19 includes proposed budgets. Vol. 3.1 includes Mary Moor's copy book of epistles and testimonies. Vol. 3.5 includes births, deaths, marriages, and removals. Vol. 3.6 includes births, deaths, marriages, and removals. Vol. 3.8 includes a letter concerning the disownment of Ezekiel Hopkins. Vol. 3.10 includes marriages. Vol. 4.3 contains minutes of Ministers and Elders Quarterly Meeting for the Western Shore 1699-1716 and accounts of Friends Stocks, 1736-1766. Vol. 6.1 includes answers to queries, misc. correspondence, requests for membership, and committee reports. For a partial abstract of records, see GEN. MSS Brown, Kirk, compiler.
Deposit, Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
Organization
- Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
- Clifts Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends: 1658-1750 : Calvert County, Md.)
- Herring Creek Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1750-1772 : Calvert County, Md.)
- West River Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1772-1778 : Anne Arundel County, Md.)
- Indian Spring Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1778-1846 : Laurel, Md.)
- Indian Spring Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox : Laurel, Md.)
Subject
- Society of Friends -- Maryland -- Montgomery County
- Society of Friends -- Maryland -- Anne Arundel County
- Society of Friends -- Maryland -- Calvert County
- Society of Friends -- Maryland -- St. Georges County
Place
- Publisher
- 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.
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Collection Inventory
Meeting was known as Clifts until 1750 and Herring Creek from 1750 to 1772.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B99/100
1 vol.; 37.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B99
1 vol.; 34 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
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Meeting was known as Herring Creek from 1750 to 1772 and West River from 1772 to 1778.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B155
1 vol.; 34 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rough minutes (copied in Minutes, 1778 - 1817).
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B154
1 vol.; 34 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B153
1 vol.; 46 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
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Includes notes from Baltimore Yearly Meeting (1792).
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B153
1 vol.; 39.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
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Rough minutes.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B154
1 vol.; 24 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B154
1 vol.; 24 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Items laid in include a photograph of Indian Spring Meeting House and a copy of the "Baltimore Clipper", Feb. 12, 1841.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Haverford: No Film
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B111/110
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Includes list of meeting dates.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B205
1 vol.; 20 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Title page marked: "Minutes of Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting from 1st mo 9th 1861 2 mo 9th 1870." Includes dates of meetings and appointments.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B205
1 vol.; 26.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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Title page marked: "Record Book Sandy Spring M.M. From 5th Mo 8th 1867 to 2nd Mo. 1st 1903."
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B205
1 vol.; 33.5 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Title page marked: "Minutes of Sandy Spring Mo Mg from 3 Mo 9th 1870 to 7 Mo 9th 1884." Includes dates of monthly meeting and appointments.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B205
1 vol.; 26.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B205
1 vol.; 24.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B205
Affiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Title page marked: "Sandy Spring 1903-1910."
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B205
1 vol.; 24.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
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Title page marked: "Sandy Spring Minutes 1911-1915." Note: These minutes were recopied into this volume in 1929.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B206
1 vol.; 24.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes committee listings and misc. correspondence to Baltimore Yearly Meeting (1949 -1950).
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B206
1 vol.; 28 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B207
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B207
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes proposed budget (1972).
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B207
1 vol.; 29 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B209
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Title page marked: "Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting of Friends."
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B209
1 vol.; 29 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on Microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore:No Film
- Haverford:No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
36 folders
Material Specific DetailsUnited
36 folders
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B155
1 vol.; 34 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B155
1 vol.; 33.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1811-1812; 1817-1818; 1821-1824.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B667
1 vol.; 22.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B209
1 vol.; 19 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Note: Following the minutes in this volume, the men's and women's meeting met jointly.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B209
1 vol.; 24.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B203
1 vol.; 23.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes Mary Moor's copy book of epistles and testimonies (back of volume).
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B152
1 vol.; 30.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Indexed
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B152
1 vol.; 35.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B154
1 vol.; 29.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes occasional notes on membership.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B203
1 vol.; 33.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes births, deaths, marriages, and removals.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B204
1 vol.; 27 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/H/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Indexed. Title page marked: "Record of the Membership of Sandy Spring MD, Monthly Meeting of Friends." Includes births, deaths, marriages, and removals.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B204
1 vol.; 27.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/H/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes removals sent (indexed, back of volume).
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B206
1 vol.; 21 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes a letter to Baltimore Monthly Meeting concerning the disownment of Ezekiel Hopkins.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes list of marriages (1685-1964).
Indexed
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B204
1 vol.; 33.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 vol.; 31.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/H/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Title page marked: "Sandy Spring Membership Book [Births and Deaths] 1871-1990." Indexed.
Physical Description1 vol.; 27 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 vol.; 34.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B206
1 vol.; 25 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Title page marked: "Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting of Friends, Sandy Spring, Maryland, Ministry and Counsel Minutes, June 1938 through Dec. 1962."
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B209
1 vol.; 29.5 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Volume also includes an Account of Friends Stock, [1698] and 1736-1766, last recorded by Samuel Robertson, Clerk, as well as the minutes of 4-Months' Meeting for the Western Shore, 1699-1716, and a list of queries, 1755.
This volume was formerly described as the minutes of Herring Creek Particular Meeting, 1699-1716.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B50/63
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B667
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Title page marked: "Minutes of the Board of Trustees of Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting."
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B206
1 vol.; 27 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Letter from Indian Spring Monthly Meeting to Wayne Oak Monthly Meeting, 1828. Folder also contains letters of Rachel Hopkins, 1866-1895, with notes on Indian Spring Meeting by Cora Dulaney.
Available on microfilm in the following location:
- Haverford: No Film
- Swarthmore: No Film
1 folder.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Includes answers to queries, misc. correspondence, requests for membership, and committee reports.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
36 folders
Material Specific DetailsUnited