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Farnham Preparative Meeting of Friends Records

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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.

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A preparative meeting of Friends held at Farnham in the Province of Quebec was established by Ferrisburgh Monthly Meeting in 1822. It was set off to Farnham Monthly Meeting on its establishment in 1842. The preparative meeting was laid down in 1878.

Records of Farnham Preparative Meeting, 1822-1878. Includes: Minutes (men's and joint), 1826-1878, and women's minutes, 1822-1878.

Divided into series: Minutes (men's and joint): 1.1 1826-1841; 1.2 1841-1871; 1.3 1871-1878; Women's minutes: 2.1 1822-1826, 2.2 1826-1849, 2.3 1849-1878; Property: 3.1 Quit-claim for cemetery 1905; Misc.: 4.1 Correspondence 1905, 4.2 Library record 1860.

Transferred from Haviland Records Room by NYYM in 1997.

Deposit, 1997.

Publisher
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
Inventory prepared by: FHL Staff
Finding Aid Date
2007
Access Restrictions

Where available, access is through microfilm.

Use Restrictions

Information on reproduction policies available in the library.

Collection Inventory

RG2/NY/F377 1.1. Minutes, 1826-1841.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: MR NY-489 (fi554)
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

RG2/NY/F377 1.2. Minutes, 1841-1871.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: MR NY-489 (fi555)
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

RG2/NY/F377 1.3. Minutes, 1871-1878.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: MR NY-489 (fi556)
Physical Description

1 volume and 1 envelope of enclosures

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

RG2/NY/F377 2.1. Women's minutes, 1822-1826.
Box RG2/NY/F
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: MR NY-489 (fi560)
Physical Description

1 volume in box

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation

RG2/NY/F377 2.2. Women's minutes, 1826-1849.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: MR NY-489 (fi557)
Physical Description

1 volume and 1 envelope of enclosures

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre/Orthodox

RG2/NY/F377 2.3. Women's minutes, 1849-1878.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: MR NY-489 (fi558)
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

RG2/NY/F377 3.1. Quit-claim for cemetery, 1905.
Box RG2/NY/F
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No film
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

RG2/NY/F377 4.1. Correspondence, 1905.
Box RG2/NY/F
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No film
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

RG2/NY/F377 4.2. Library record, 1860.
Box RG2/NY/F
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence 1860.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No film
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

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