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Birmingham Preparative Meeting 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.
Overview and metadata sections
Birmingham Preparative Meeting was established in 12mo 1726/1727 by Concord Monthly Meeting. In 1827, at the time of the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, two preparative meetings emerged. Birmingham Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1922. Its members were transferred to West Chester Preparative Meeting (Orthodox). Birmingham Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) became Birmingham Monthly Meeting at Birmingham in 1956, at the dissolution of Birmingham Monthly Meeting (Hicksite).
Records include: Hicksite and United minutes, 1869-1956; Hicksite women's minutes, 1869-1886 (included in Joint minutes, 1869-1903); Orthodox minutes, 1852-1921; Orthodox women's minutes, 1886-1919; pre-Separation and Hicksite deeds and other property records, 1721-1903; Hicksite First Day School minutes, 1897-1949; miscellaneous papers, 1960; and Orthodox School Fund accounts, 1828-1845.
Deposit
Organization
- Birmingham Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1727-1827)
- Birmingham Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1956)
- Birmingham Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1922)
Subject
Place
- Publisher
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Date
- 2011
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.
- Use Restrictions
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Copyright has not been assigned to the Repositories All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
Collection Inventory
Affiliation: Orthodox
Physical Description1 volume in folder
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minute book as follows: 1869-1903. Includes Women's Meeting minutes, 1869-1886.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books as follows: 1.2 1904-1934; 1.3 1934-1942; 1.4 1942-1953; 1.5 1953-1956.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph24 (1904-34; 1934-42; 1942-53)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph25 (1953-56)
- Haverford: No Film
4 v.; 28 cm. or smaller
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
The subsequent volume of records is in the Birmingham Monthly Meeting collection, as it was also used for Monthly Meeting financial business following the certification of Birmingham Preparative as a Monthly Meeting in 1956.
Physical Description1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder (5 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Affiliation: Orthodox
Physical Description1 volume in folder
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Affiliation: Orthodox
Physical Description1 volume in folder
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Eight deeds, 1721-1903. Also included are: minutes relating to trusteeship of meetinghouse (1902-1903); chart of meeting's property prepared by A. D. Sharples (1903).
Physical Description1 oversize folder (3.1++) and 1 regular folder (3.2)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
History of the Birmingham octagonal school house, presented by Horace F. Darlington to the Chester County Historical Society in 1954.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous records of Birmingham Preparative Meeting, 1889-1918. Includes directories and correspondence relative to the transfer of the deed to the new Trustees.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Brief biographies of the founders of Birmingham Meeting read at the 250 Year Celebration in 1940. Includes William Brinton, Bennett family, Richard Thatcher, the Dicks family, Francis Chadsi, Joseph Gilpin, the Strode family, Jefferis, Elizabeth Webb, Joseph and Philip Taylor, Abraham Darlington, John Forsythe, Joshua and Edith Sharpless, and Philip and Rachel Price.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
First Day School minutes as follows: 1897-1905; 1912-1915; 1921-1925; 1927- 1935; 1936-1939; 1939-1944; 1946-1949. Pertinent papers laid in.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
8 v. ; 25 cm. or smaller
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Typescript history of the Birmingham First-day School, 1860-1960, apparently by Helen W. Shortlidge at the observance of the 100th anniversary at the meeting house, October 9, 1960.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
22 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College