Call Number:

NY.S627

Repository:

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

Extent:

1 linear ft. (6 volumes and 1 folder)

Language Note:

These records are entirely in English

Date:

1801-1918 (inclusive)

Creator:

Smith's Clove Preparative Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1918 : Smith's Clove, N.Y.) and Smith's Clove Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1803-1828 : Smith's Clove, N.Y.)

Abstract:

Records of Smith's Clove Preparative Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1803-1918. Includes men's, women's, and joint minutes, 1803-1918, deeds, 1800-1801, and miscellaneous records.

Smith's Clove Preparative Meeting was set off from Cornwall Preparative Meeting by Cornwall Monthly Meeting in 1803. In 1828 it divided into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. The Orthodox branch was laid down in 1828 and the members attached to Blooming Grove Preparative Meeting. The Hicksite branch was laid down shortly after 1918 and the members attached to Cornwall Monthly Meeting.

Records of Smith's Clove Preparative Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1801-1918. Includes men's, women's, and joint minutes, 1803-1918, deeds, 1800-01, and miscellaneous records.

Divided into series: Minutes, men's and joint: 1.1 1803-20, 1.2 1871-1901, 1.3 1901-1918; Minutes, women: 2.1 1825-43, 2.2 1844-68, 2.3 1868-88; Finance and Property: 3.1 1800-01; Miscellaneous: 4.1 Correspodence 183, 1914-1973.