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Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting (1672-1927) Records
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Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting was established in 1672. The Monthly Meeting was transferred to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1682. Two branches formed at the time of the Separation. The Orthodox branch was discontinued in 1855. The Hicksite Monthly Meeting was transferred to New York Yearly Meeting in 1833. In 1908, the name changed to Shrewsbury Executive Meeting. In 1928, it merged with Squan Preparative Meeting to form Shrewsbury and Manasquan Monthly Meeting. This meeting became Manasquan Monthly Meeting in 1955. In 1954, Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting was reestablished from Shrewsbury Meeting of Friends which had been meeting as early as 1937.
Records of Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting, Hicksite and Orthodox, 1650-1920. Includes men's minutes, 1732-1920, women's minutes, 1680-1891, vital records, 1650-1914, and other miscellaneous records.
Divided into series: Men's Minutes: 1.1 1732-1756, 1.2 1786-1801, 1.3 1801-1821, 1.4 1821-1855, 1.5 1855-1904, 1.6 1904-1920, 1.7 clerk's drafts 1809-1825, 1.8 clerk's drafts 1868-1874, 1.9 1757-86, 1.10 index 1757-86; Women's Minutes: 2.1 1828-1829, 2.2 1873-1891, 2.3 clerk's drafts 1837-1842, 2.4 1829-32, 2.5 1833-37, 2.6 1680-1731, 2.7 1738-1816, 2.8 index 1817-55, 2.9 index 1738-58/1786-1816; Vital records: 3.1 Births and Deaths and Marriages 1650-1742; 3.2 Marriage certificates and intentions 1674-1902; 3.3 Marriages, Births, Deaths 1674-1853; 3.4 Births and Deaths 1699-1914; 3.5 Marriage certificates 1732-1853; 3.6 Marriage certificates 1828-1902; 3.7 Births, Deaths and marriages 1650-1742, 3.8 Marriage Certificates, Removal certificates and marriage intentions 1674-1902, 3.9 Births, deaths & marriages abstract, 1657-1876, 3.10 Record of members' deaths, removals, & disownments 1768-1853; Miscellaneous: 4.1 Scrapbook of manumissions, sufferings, etc.; 4.2 School fund, Accounts 1790-1808, 4.3 School Fund, Accounts 1807-1808, 4.4 School Fund, Accounts 1807-1810, 4.5 School, Pupil Accounts 1808-1808, 4.6 School Fund, Accounts 1809-1811, 4.7 Treasurer's Book 1828-1862, 4.8 Temperance Committee 1883-1893, 4.9 Misellaneous records 1770-1873.
Hicksite records transferred from Haviland Records Room by NYYM in 1997. Orthodox records deposited by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. The latter were originally filed with PYM, but were moved from RG2/Ph/S45 to RG2/NY/S553 in 2011; these volumes included 3.9-3.10, 1.9-1.10, and 2.6-2.9.
Deposit.
Organization
- Monthly Meeting of Friends held at Shrewsbury (1672-1827)
- Shrewsbury Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1937-1954 : Shrewsbury, N.J.)
- Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1855)
Subject
- 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
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Where available, access is through microfilm.
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Information on reproduction policies available in the library.
Collection Inventory
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY140
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph585
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY140
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY140
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY140
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY282
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY282
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
clerk's drafts
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY282
1 envelope
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
clerk's drafts
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY282
1 envelope
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph586
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph586
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Includes abstract typescript of womens' minutes 1680-1732.
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph586
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
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- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph586
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY141
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY141
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY282
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY282
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY141
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY140
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
"Abstract of Marriages and a copy of records of Births and Deaths of the Members of Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting of Friends" by Hugh D. Vail in 1878.
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph584
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY140
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY283
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY283
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY283
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY140
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
- No film
1 volume in box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY282
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph584
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY283
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY283
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY283
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY283
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY283
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY283
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-
Includes: 1695, John Lippincott to Jedidiah Allen et.al. [Trustees], Shrewsbury, for Meeting house and Burial Place; 1717, Preserve Lippincott to John Lippincott et.al. [Trustees], Shrewsbury, for Meeting house; 1802, Peter Wolcott et ux to Jacob Woolley and Timothy Corlies [Trustees], Shrewsbury, NJ, for a school house; 1802, Peter Wolcott et ux to Jacob Woolley and Timothy Corlies [Trustees], Shrewsbury, for a school house.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY283
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY283
Partial transcript (created much later) laid in.
Physical Description1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-
Loose records. Includes the following: Certificates of Removal A-M, 1773-1873; Disownments and Acknowledgements A-F, 1781-1831 and n.d.; Disownments and Acknowledgements O-Z, 1780-1848 and n.d.; Membership. 1787-1828.; Schools and School Fund, 1784-1842 and n.d.; Reports, 1771-1843 and n.d.; Subscription for the Indians, 1796-1797.; Miscellaneous Finances, 1770-1861.; Discipline Recommendations, 1777.; Certificates of Removal N-Z, 1781-1873; Disownments and Acknowledgements G-N, 1784-1832 and n.d.; Travelling Certificates (Ministers), 1781-1848; Sufferings, 1777, 1817-18; Queries, 1811-1822 and n.d.; Epistles, 1831.; Property Finances, 1770-1859.; Communications With Other Meetings and Care of Poor, 1789-1854 and n.d.; Opinion of the World of the Rising Generation of the Society of Friends, n.d.
Physical Description2 boxes
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation