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Warrington Quarterly Meeting Records

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The Warrington and Fairfax Quarterly Meeting was established in 1776, set off from Western Quarterly Meeting. In the beginning it included Hopewell, Fairfax, Pipe Creek, and Warrington Monthly Meetings. In 1787, the Warrington and Fairfax Quarterly Meeting was divided into Warrington Quarterly Meeting and Fairfax Quarterly Meeting. Warrington Quarterly Meeting was made up of Pipe Creek, Menallen, York, and Warrington Monthly Meetings. After the Separation, the Orthodox members of Warrington Quarter were attached to Deer Creek Monthly Meeting (Orthodox).

Records of Warrington Quarterly Meeting and its predecessor, Warrington and Fairfax Quarterly Meeting, 1776-2021. Records include Men's and Joint minutes 1776-2021, women's minutes 1776-1897, Ministers and Elders minutes 1806-1925, and Miscellaneous 1988-2021 (includes reports from the Quarter and reports to the Quarter from its constituent meetings).

Divided into series: 1.Men's and Joint Minutes; 2.Women's minutes; 3.Ministers & Elders; 4. Miscellaneous.

Vol. 1.1 is made up of five bound minute folios : 1776-77, 1778-80, 1780-82, 1782-84, and 1784-87. Vol. 1.2 contains Warrington and Fairfax Quarterly Meeting minutes 1776-1787 and Warrington Quarterly Meeting minutes 1787-1801. Vol 2.1 includes Warrington and Fairfax Quarterly meeting women's minutes 1776-87 and Warrington Quarterly Meeting women's minutes 1787-1813. Vol. 2.3 includes minutes of meeting held in joint session after 1897. Vol. 4.1 is missing Ministers and Elders minutes 2/25/1815-2/24/1818.

Also available in microfilm, for use in the Library only: MR-B223-225.

Deposit. Digital records from the 2010s deposited by Wayne Finegar, General Secretary of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, in 2020.

Organization
Subject

Publisher
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Date
2005
Access Restrictions

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.

Use Restrictions

Information on reproduction policies available in the Library.

Collection Inventory

RG2/B/W374 1.1. Minutes, 1776-1787.
Scope and Contents

Bound: 1776-1777, 1778-1780, 1780-1782, 1782-1784, 1784-1787.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B225
Physical Description

1 vol. (5 folios bound); 25.5 cm

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 1.2. Minutes, 1776-1801.
Scope and Contents

Include minutes of Warrington and Fairfax Quarterly Meeting to 1787.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B225
Physical Description

1 vol.; 34 cm

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 1.3. Minutes, 1803-1888.
Scope and Contents

Notes beginning of joint session. Recopied from rough drafts.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B223
Physical Description

1 vol.; 30.5 cm

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 1.4. Minutes, 1814-1821.
Scope and Contents

Clerks copy (rough draft) Recopied in RG2/B/W374 1.1.

Physical Description

1 vol.; 20.5

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 1.5. Minutes, 1848-1850.
Scope and Contents

Clerks copy (rough draft). Recopied in RG2/B/W374 1.1.

Physical Description

1 vol.; 16 cm

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 1.6. Minutes, 1860-1869.
Scope and Contents

Title: "Minutes of Warrington Quarterly Meeting commencing 5th mo 19th/60."

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B223
Physical Description

1 vol.; 19 cm

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 1.7. Minutes, 1888-1923.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B223
Physical Description

1 vol.; 34.5 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 1.8. Minutes, 1910-1919.
Physical Description

1 vol.; 24.5 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 1.9. Minutes, 1919-45.
Scope and Contents

Note: Reads from back.

Physical Description

1 vol.; 29 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 1.21. Minutes, 1946-1952.
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 1.22. Minutes [rough], 1911-1962 (bulk 1948-1962).
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Hicksite/United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 1.10. Minutes, 1988-1996.
Scope and Contents

Originally filed with Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting

Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 1.11. Minutes, 1975-1981.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Unitednited

RG2/B/W374 1.12. Minutes, 1982-1992.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Unitednited

RG2/B/W374 1.13. Minutes, 1982-1994.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Unitednited

RG2/B/W374 1.14. Minutes, 1994-1998.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Unitednited

RG2/B/W374 1.15-1.16. Minutes, 1995-2000.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
Physical Description

2 folders

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Unitednited

RG2/B/W374 1.17. Minutes, 2003-2005.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Unitednited

RG2/B/W374 1.18. Minutes, 2001-2012.
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/B/W374. Minutes (digital), 2013-2014.
Physical Description

7 PDF files

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 1.19. Minutes, 2015-2018.
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 1.20. Minutes, 2019-2021.
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/B/W374 2.1. Minutes, 1776-1813.
Scope and Contents

Warrington and Fairfax Quarterly Meeting: includes minutes of women friends of Warrington after 1787.

Physical Description

1 vol.; 32.5 cm

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 2.2. Minutes, 1813-1870.
Physical Description

1 vol.; 33 cm

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 2.3. Minutes, 1883-1910.
Scope and Contents

Title:" Minutes of Warrington Q.M. of Women Friends and Members of Warrington Q.M. held in joint session from 8th mo 23rd 1897"

Physical Description

1 vol.; 19 cm

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 3.1. Minutes, 1806-1829.
Scope and Contents

Missing: 2/25/1815 - 2/24/1818.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B224
Physical Description

1 vol.; 25 cm

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 3.2. Minutes, 1892-1905.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B224
Physical Description

1 vol.;17 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 3.3. Minutes, 1905-25.
Scope and Contents

Title: "Minutes of Warrington Quarterly Meeting of Ministers and Elders Commencing 5.20.1905."

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-B224
Physical Description

1 vol.; 17 cm

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374 4.1. Miscellaneous, 1988-2004.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Unitednited

RG2/B/W374. Monthly Meeting reports to the Quarter (digital), 2011.
Scope and Contents

Compiled quarterly reports of the constituent meetings to Warrington QM's spring 2011 business meetings.

Physical Description

1 PDF file

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/W374. Spiritual State of the Meeting reports (digital), 2016-2019.
Scope and Contents

Lacking 2017

Physical Description

3 PDF files

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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