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Somerton Monthly Meeting Records (including Chuckatuck/Nansemond, Western Branch, and Lower)

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Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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.

Overview and metadata sections

This Meeting was originally in two parts, Chuckatuck sometimes called the Nansemond Monthly Meeting, in Nansemond County, and Pagan Creek in Isle of Wight County. Between the years of 1767-1856, these parts were re-grouped and were known as the Western Branch Monthly Meeting, then from 1856 to 1912 as Lower Monthly Meeting, and Somerton Monthly Meeting from 1912.

Southampton County meetings were divided and separated from the Lower Monthly Meeting in 1906. The southern meetings were organized as Black Creek Monthly Meeting, holding sessions at Bethel Virginia and, by 1917, at Sedley Virginia. Friends in the northern section of the county became members of Corinth Monthly Meeting.

Records of Somerton Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Chuckatuck/Nansemond, Lower and Western Branch, 1673-1946. Includes men's and joint minutes 1673-1756, 1894, 1907-1946, women's minutes 1891-1894, and vital records 1673-1756, 1879-1949.

Includes minutes from Pagan Creek Monthly Meeting 1738-1763, and Lower Preparative Meeting 1894.

Divided into series: : 1.Vital Records; 2.Men's and Joint Minutes; 3.Women's Minutes.

Deposit, Baltimore Yearly Meeting.

Organization
Subject
Place

Publisher
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Date
2009
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.

Use Restrictions

Information on reproduction policies available in the Library.

Collection Inventory

HC.BM.S664.01.001 (1116/182). Minutes and Register, 1673-1756.
Box 55
Scope and Contents

Includes births, marriages, and deaths.

General

Typed copy, with index.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Haverford: No Film
  2. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B210 (1634-1728)
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.BM.S664.01.002 (1116/183). Marriages, Births, and Deaths, 1673-1687.
Box 55
Scope and Contents

Includes marriages, births, and deaths for Isle of Wight and Nansemond Counties.

General

Photostat copies.

One pkg. contains two volumes.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Haverford: No Film
  2. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B210 (1634-1728)
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

1116/181. Membership Register, 1879-1906.
Scope and Contents

Includes births, marriages, and deaths.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Haverford: No Film
  2. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B210
Physical Description

1 pkg.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.BM.S664.01.003 (1116/Box 6). Memorials, 1926, 1928, 1942, 1943.
Box 56
Scope and Contents

Memorials for Joseph W. Rabey 1866-1926, Anna Bertha 1876-1928, Jeptha V. Hare 1868-1942, and Joseph L. Hare 1871-1943.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Haverford: No Film
  2. Swarthmore: No Film
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.BM.S664.02.001 (1116/Box HW-43). Minutes, 1673-1756.
Box 56
General

Carbon copy of typescript.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Haverford: No Film
  2. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B210
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.BM.S664.02.002 (1116/184). Pagan Creek Meeting Minutes, 1738-1763.
Box 56
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Haverford: No Film
  2. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B210 (1738-1752)
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.BM.S664.02.003 (1116/193). Western Branch Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1767-1771.
Box 56
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Haverford: No Film
  2. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B229
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.BM.S664.02.004 (1116/193). Minutes, 1806-1823; 1825-1833.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Haverford: No Film
  2. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B229
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.BM.S664.02.005 (1116/187). Minutes, 1856-1886.
Box 56
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Haverford: No Film
  2. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B210
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.BM.S664.02.006 (1116/188). Minutes, 1887-1907.
General

Items laid in.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Haverford: No Film
  2. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B210
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.BM.S664.02.007 (1116/185). Minutes, 1907-1946.
Scope and Contents

From 1912 on this meeting was referred to as Somerton Monthly Meeting.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Haverford: No Film
  2. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B210
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.BM.S664.02.008 (1116/Box 6). Somerton Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1894.
Box 56
Scope and Contents

Minutes from a Preparative Meeting of Friends held in Joint Session at Somerton, Nansemond County, Virginia.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Haverford: No Film
  2. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B210
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.BM.S664.03.001 (1116/186). Minutes, 1891-1894.
Box 56
General

Items laid in.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Haverford: No Film
  2. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B210
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

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