Call Number:

NY.S555

Repository:

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

Extent:

1 linear ft. (7 volumes)

Date:

1937-1995 (inclusive)

Creator:

Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1954- : Shrewsbury, N.J.)

Abstract:

Records of Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting (1954- ), 1937-ongoing. Includes minutes, 1955-81, as well as the minutes of Shrewsbury Meeting of Friends, 1937-1954, and newsletters.

Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting was established in 1672. The meeting was transfered to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1682. The meeting separated, creating two branches. The Orthodox branch was discontinued in 1855. The Hicksite monthly meeting was transfered to New York Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) in 1833. It merged to form Shrewsbury and Manasquan Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) in 1928, which became Manasquan Monthly Meeting in 1955. In 1954, the second Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting was established from Shrewsbury Meeting of Friends, which had been meeting as early as 1937.

Records of Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting (1954- ), 1937-ongoing. Includes minutes, 1955-81, as well as the minutes of Shrewsbury Meeting of Friends, 1937-1954, and newsletters.

Divided into series: Minutes: 1.1 1937-1949, 1.2 1950-1960, 1.3 1968-1975, 1.4 1976-1981, 1.5 1961, 1.6 1963-1968; Newsletter: 2.1 1980-1989,1990-1995.