Call Number:

B.S689

Repository:

Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Extent:

2.5 linear ft.

Language:

English

Date:

1757-1848 (inclusive)

Creator:

South River Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1757-1847 : Lynchburg, Va.)

Abstract:

Meetings at South River began as the Weekly Meeting of Bedford in 1754, under the care of Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting. By 1757 it achieved the status of a Monthly Meeting part of Upper Quarterly Meeting. Goose Creek, in Bedford County, was granted the status of an indulged meeting under South River Monthly Meeting in 1786 and by 1794 was established as a Monthly Meeting. In 1797 Western Quarterly Meeting was set up for South River and Goose Creek Meetings. By 1814 Goose Creek Monthly Meeting was discontinued and membership joined to South River. Western Quarterly Meeting was discontinued in 1817 and South River was again joined to Upper Quarterly Meeting. South River Monthly Meeting itself was laid down in 1847.

Records of South River Monthly Meeting, 1757-1848. Includes men's minutes 1757-1839, women's minutes 1763-1842, and vital records 1757-1848.

Divided into series: 1.Men's Minutes; 2.Women's Minutes; 3.Worship & Ministry and its Predecessors; 4. Financial Records; 5.Miscellaneous.