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Bristol Monthly 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
Bristol Monthly Meeting was established in 1873 by Bucks County Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite) out of Bristol Preparative Meeting of Middletown Monthly Meeting (Bucks County). Its first business sessions were held in 1874. This is currently an active monthly meeting.
Records of Bristol Monthly Meeting include: Minutes, 1874-1978 and 1990-2016; vital records, 1873-2017; Women's minutes, 1874-1880; minutes of the meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1882-1918; minutes of the meeting of Ministry and Counsel, 1919-1935; loose marriage papers, 1875; financial papers relating to burial lot funds, 1933-1938; deeds, 1909-1926 and n.d.; and other fiancial and miscellaneous papers, 1873-2017.
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- 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
At the time of the Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1827-28, pre-Separation vital records were generally retained by the branch with which the recorder was affiliated. Researchers are advised to consider vital records which span this period carefully: in many cases, the meeting without the original records may have reconstructed these records for its membership only, giving the impression that individuals in the other branch were never members.
Membership book of Bristol Monthly Meeting. Includes the following: Births, 1876-1930; deaths, 1873-1939; marriage certificates, 1913 & 1933; membership lists, 1874-1927; removals issued, 1875-1919; removals received, 1874-1935.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph38
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ; 35 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes letters of parental consent and a note to Bristol Monthly Meeting concerning the marriage of John Comly and Rebecca T. Buckman.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph37
- Haverford: Microfilm 158
1 folder (3 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes membership list probably of Bristol Preparative Meeting (11mo 17 1862), a list of members of Middletown Monthly Meeting who have removed without certificates (1865), and a statistical report of the membership of Bristol Monthly Meeting.
Probably assembled at the time that Bristol was set off from Middletown.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph37
- Haverford: Microfilm 158
1 folder (9 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Applications for membership, certificates of removal, letters of transfer, membership statistics, and an annotated typed membership list of Bristol Monthly Meeting (ca. 1955).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph37
- Haverford: Microfilm 158
1 folder (61 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Official records of proceedings kept for all Quaker business meetings. Only Quakers could participate. It has responsibility for care of members, authorizes removals and marriages, maintains discipline, considers the queries, manages meeting property, fosters social concerns, and reports regularly to the quarterly meeting. Beginning at the end of the 19th century, men and women ceased to hold separate business meetings, meeting instead in joint session.
Minute books as follows: [1.1] 1874-1912, [1.2] 1912-1931, [1.3] 1931-1957.
Joint sessions in which men and women meet together for business begin in 1880. 1912-31 volume includes membership lists for the years 1911-1930.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph37 (1874-1912)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph38 (1912-31; 1931-57)
- Haverford: No Film
3 v. ; 37 cm. or smaller
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes from 1874 1mo 2 to 1880 1mo 2.
Joint sessions in which men and women meet together for business begin in 1880.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph38
- Haverford: Microfilm 156
1 v. ; 25 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Committee which had care of the spiritual welfare of the meeting, particularly the meeting for worship. Ministry and Counsel committees were established in 1918 by Hicksite meetings, which no longer designated members as ministers or elders. The predecessor of Ministry and Counsel was the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders.
Includes minutes of the Meeting of Ministers and Elders, [4.1] 1882-94, [4.2] 1894-1921, [4.3] 1922-35.
Meeting's name changed to Preparative Meeting of Ministry and Counsel on 2mo 16, 1919.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph37
- Haverford: Microfilm 158
3 v. ; 26 cm. or smaller.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Correspondence, receipts, and other financial records concerning funds for the upkeep of cemetery lots in the Bristol Friends Cemetery.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph37
- Haverford: Microfilm 156
1 folder (20 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes deeds for land in Bristol (1909, 1916), an agreement of sale by Falls Monthly Meeting to the Italian Christian Church in Bristol (1922), and miscellaneous copies of deeds.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph37
- Haverford: Microfilm 158
1 folder (6 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Contains entries from 1875 9mo 14 to 1912 11mo 8. Label on cover: Treasurer Friends' School for girls and boys. Bristol, Bucks County, Pa.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph38
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ; 35 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes a proposition from Bristol Preparative Meeting to Middletown Monthly concerning the establishment of a monthly meeting at Bristol (1873), a printed address from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting concerning schools (1877), and a reply from the U.S. Department of State in reference to the negotiation of arbitration treaties (1912).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph37
- Haverford: Microfilm 158
1 folder (3 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College