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Bradford Monthly Meeting Records (including Bradford & Uwchlan (Hicksite) and other predecessors)
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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
Bradford Monthly Meeting was established in 1737 by Chester [Concord] Quarterly Meeting. In 1827, after the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. Bradford Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) merged with Uwchlan Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) in 1883 to form Bradford & Uwchlan Monthly Meeting. This meeting was discontinued in 1901. Bradford Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), which reunited with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) in 1955, was the forerunner of the present-day Bradford Monthly Meeting.
Records of Bradford Monthly Meeting and of its pre-Separation predecessors, Bradford & Uwchlan Monthly Meeting, Bradford Monthly Meeting and Uwchlan Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), include: Minutes, 1880-1900/1954-2013; minutes of Uwchlan Monthly Meeting, 1828-1863; minutes of Bradford Monthly Meeting, 1828-1880; vital records, 1699-1921/1984-2006; women's minutes, 1828-1886. Also included are records of Bradford Monthly Meeting since 1724: Orthodox vital records, 1724-1908; minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting, 1737-1816; minutes of Orthodox men's meeting, 1816-1954; minutes of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 1737-1820; minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1828-1883; minutes of the Orthodox women's meeting, 1820-1918; minutes of the Orthodox Ministers and Elder's meeting, 1858-1915; account books, 1859-1940; Orthodox property records, 1681-1912; minutes of the Committee on Sufferings, 1777-1791; minutes of the Orthodox Trustees, 1909-1910.
Deposit
Records of Uwchlan Monthly Meeting -- pre-Separation, Orthodox, & united -- are described in a separate finding aid.
Organization
- Bradford Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955)
- Bradford & Uwchlan Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1883-1901)
- Bradford Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1883)
- Uwchlan Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1827-1883)
- Bradford Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends)
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
Register of births and deaths of Uwchlan Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) continued by Bradford & Uwchlan Monthly Meeting. Includes index.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 622
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Partial manuscript copy of Births and deaths (1699-1899). Includes index.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 623
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (162 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Register of Bradford Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) continued by Bradford & Uwchlan Monthly Meeting. Contains the following: births (1749-1858 and 1828 -1897); deaths (1825-1858 and 1845-1901); membership list (1833-1834); membership list of Bradford Preparative Meeting (1894). Register begun ca. 1828.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph33
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Typescript. Includes Orthodox members.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Indexed abstract to the records of Bradford taken by Gilbert Cope and copied by Minshall Painter in 1860. Includes Marriages (1737-1857), Births aand Deaths (1697-1856), Minutes (1737-1781), and Women's Minutes (1766-1770).
Physical Description1 volume
Material Specific DetailsPre/H
Meeting's copies of marriage certificates from 9mo 2, 1737 to 6mo 10, 1864. Register also contains: births and deaths, 1727-1807; manumissions, 1775- 1781. Accompanied by alphabetical index of names (in folder)
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph32
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Copies of certificates for marriages under the care of Uwchlan Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) and later, for marriages under the care of Bradford & Uwchlan Monthly Meeting.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph622
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Title from caption.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph33
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph32
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume (45 p.) 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
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
1 folder (23 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Register of births, 1724-1884. Volume also contains: Deaths, 1733-1885 (entered in back of volume, in opposite direction to minutes). Pertinent papers laid in.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1v. (83, 23p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Meeting's copies of certificates of removal received, 1781 12th mo 31 - 1801 11th mo 4. Includes index.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph35
- Haverford: Microfilm 23
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph32, MR-Ph35
- Haverford: Microfilm 23
1 volume (198 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Meeting's copies of certificates of removal issued by Bradford Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) and later, by Bradford & Uwchlan Monthly Meeting. Also included are two disownments (1852, 1864). Pertinent papers laid in.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph33
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Uwchlan (Hicksite) copies of certificates issued on behalf of persons removing to other meetings.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 622.
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (52 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the pre-Separation meeting, 1737-1816. Each volume is accompanied by a typed alphabetical index foldered inside of volume.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph34
- Haverford: Microfilm 22; disownments Film 23
7 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the Orthodox meeting, 1827-1834. Includes testimonies against those persons who were excluded from membership, 1828-1833.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph35
- Haverford: Microfilm 22; disownments film 23
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute book of the Uwchlan (Hicksite) men's meeting, 1828 2mo 7-1863 7mo 6.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 622
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (271 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Uwchlan (Hicksite) rough minutes.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (139 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes as follows: 3mo 18, 1756-4mo 21 1757. Volume also contains: property surveys, indentures, correspondence concerning deeds, accounts (1757-1767).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph33
- Haverford: Microfilm 22
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the men's meeting as follows: 1828 2mo 6-1880 11mo 3.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph33
- Haverford: Microfilm 22
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph35
- Haverford: Microfilm 23
1 volume (147 p.), index in B-9
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph35
- Haverford: Microfilm 23
1 volume (325 p.), index in B-9
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph35
- Haverford: Microfilm 23
1 volume (560 p.), index in B-9
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph31
- Haverford: Microfilm 23
1 volume in a folder (298 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Volume contains the following: Minutes of Bradford Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1880 12mo 7-1883 10mo 2; and minutes of Bradford & Uwchlan Monthly Meeting, 1883 11mo 6-1896 6mo 2. Also included are membership lists (1896) of Bradford & Uwchlan's constituent preparative meetings, Caln and Bradford, which were attached to Uwchlan Preparative Meeting. Includes index. Accompanied by: an additional index (93 p.) foldered separately.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph33
- Haverford: Microfilm 22
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of Bradford & Uwchlan Monthly Meeting, 1896 7mo 7-1900 4mo 3. Volume also contains: minutes of Uwchlan Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1863 8mo 2-1883 10mo 1.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph622
- Haverford: Microfilm 22
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of Bradford Monthly Meeting: 1954 12mo-1981 11mo, 1981 12mo-1986, 1996 2mo-2005, 2001 12mo-2013 (gaps).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 vols. + 2 fols.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the pre-Separation meeting of women Friends, 1737-1827 and minutes of the Orthodox women's meeting, 1827-1828.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph31 (1737-75; 1776-86; 1786-98)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph36 (1798-1802; 1802-08; 1808-15; 1815-18; 1818-20; 1820-28)
- Haverford: Microfilm 100 (1737-75; 1776-86; 1786-98)
- Haverford: Microfilm 101 (1798-1802; 1802-08; 1808-15; 1815-18; 1818-20; 1820-28)
9 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Volume contains the following: minutes of Bradford Monthly Meeting of women Friends, 1828 2mo 6-1883 10mo 2; and minutes of Bradford & Uwchlan Monthly Meeting of women Friends, 1883 11mo 6-1886 1mo 5. Accompanied by: folder containing certificates of removal and other pertinent papers.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph33
- Haverford: Microfilm 101
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Uwchlan (Hicksite) women's minutes "Presented by the daughter of T. Chalkley Smedley who was one of the last attenders of this meeting." Cover and inside front cover bear label of the Library of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia, 15th and Cherry Streets.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 622
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (263 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph36
- Haverford: Microfilm 101
1 volume in folder (61 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph36
- Haverford: Microfilm 101
1 volume in folder (136 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph36
- Haverford: Microfilm 101
1 volume in folder (158 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph36
- Haverford: Microfilm 101
1 volume (278 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph36
- Haverford: Microfilm 101
1 volume (254 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph36
- Haverford: Microfilm 101
1 volume (20 p.)
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
1 volumee in a folder (84 p.)
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
1 volume (60 p.)
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
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
1 volume in folder (11 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/ Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/ Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes of the Committee appointed by Bradford Monthly Meeting to inspect and report the sufferings of the Friends occasioned by the Revolutionary War / now bound in one volume . . . by Gilbert Cope, 1777-1791. Contains the following: Minutes, 1777 8mo 19-1789 8mo 6; "A list of property taken from Friends of Bradford Monthly Meeting for their non- payment of taxes. . .", 1791 8mo 12. "These books were without backs but appear to be complete except the first leaf of the second book which is lost. G.C."--3d. prelim. leaf.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph343
- Haverford: Microfilm 125A
3 v. in one
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Papers include the following: Births and deaths of some families (1745- 1826); removals received (1735-1806); disownments (1738-1808); acknowledgments (1737-1808); epistles received (1732-1808); financial and property records; minute extracts; reports of committees, etc.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
7 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder (35 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Attendance and miscellaneous statistical information concerning the Shady Grove School, also called Friends' High School, in East Bradford, Pa.
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
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
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
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
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College