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Hardwick and Randolph Preparative Meeting Records (including Randolph and Mendham)

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Call Number:
NY.H377
Repository:
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
0.2 linear ft. (5 volumes)
Date:
1790-1865 (inclusive)
Creator:
Hardwick and Randolph Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1855-1865 : Randolph, N.J.)
Abstract:
Records of Hardwick and Randolph Preparative Meeting and its predecessors, Randolph Preparative Meeting and Mendham Preparative Meeting, 1790-1865. Includes: Men's and joint minutes, 1790-1865, and women's minutes 1834-52.

Randolph Preparative Meeting was established as Mendham Preparative in 1756 under Woodbridge Monthly Meeting. This meeting was set off to Hardwick and Mendham Monthly Meeting on its establishment in 1797. In 1811 Mendham changed its name to Randolph. On the laying down of Hardwick and Randolph Monthly, Randolph Preparative was set off to Rahway and Plainfield Monthly. After 1856, the preparative meeting was held alternately at Hardwick and Randolph, and was called Hardwick and Randolph Preparative. This meeting was laid down in 1865.

Records of Hardwick and Randolph Preparative Meeting and its predecessors, Randolph Preparative Meeting and Mendham Preparative Meeting, 1790-1865. Includes: Men's and joint minutes, 1790-1865, and women's minutes 1834-52.

Divided into series: Minutes: 1.1 1790-1826, 1.2 1790-1826 (abstract), 1.3 1826-1865, 1.4 1826-1865 (copy); Women's minutes: 2.1 1834-1852.

Vol.1826-65 includes joint minutes 1855-65.

Original records transferred from Haviland Records Room by NYYM in 1997.

Deposit, 1997.

Gift, American Revolution Bicentennial Observance Randolph (ARBOR),1972.

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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.

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Information on reproduction policies available in the library.

Collection Inventory

RG2/NY/H377 1.1. Minutes, 1790-1826.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY263
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation

RG2/NY/H377 1.2. Minutes (abstract), 1790-1826.
Box RG2/NY/H
Scope and Contents

Abstracts made by Mary G. Cork, Oct. 1992.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY263
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation

RG2/NY/H377 1.3. Minutes, 1826-1865.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY263
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre/Hicksite

RG2/NY/H377 2.1. Women's minutes, 1834-1852.
Box RG2/NY/H
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY263
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

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