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Byberry Preparative Meeting Records
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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.
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A meeting for worship was established at Poetquesink [Byberry] in 1683 by Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting; it was attached to Abington Monthly Meeting along with Tacony [Frankford] meeting. Byberry Preparative Meeting was established ca. 1701. The meeting for worship and preparative meeting were transferred to Horsham Monthly Meeting in 1782 and then to Byberry Monthly Meeting in 1810. After the schism of 1827/28, Byberry Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1828; the Hicksite preparative meeting was discontinued in 1920.
Records include: minutes of the pre-Separation and the Hicksite meetings, 1756-1919; minutes of the pre-Separation and Hicksite women's meeting, 1770-1897; Hicksite financial records; records of the School Fund Trustees; records of the School Association, and more.
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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
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
20 p. ; 10 cm. (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes : Births taken from the records of Abington Monthly Meeting, 1682- 1798; Burials, 1683-1801; Deaths, 1682-1850.
Membership, 1797-1841 in same folder.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph343
- Haverford: Microfilm 125A
1 v. ; 21 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/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: 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: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the pre-separation preparative meeting, 1756-1827, and minutes of the Hicksite preparative meeting, 1828-1919. Volumes as follows: 1.1 1756-1792, 1.2 1792-1825, 1.3 1825-1874, 1.4 1874-1919
Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began 1898 1mo 27.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
4 v. ; 35 cm. or smaller.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the pre-separation meeting of women friends, 1770-1827, and minutes of the Hicksite meeting of women friends, 1828-1897. Joint sessions with men began 1898 1mo. 27. Volumes as follows: 2.1 1770-1797, 2.2 1798-1830, 2.3 1830-1858, 2.4 1858-1897
Vol. 1770-1797 includes subscription book, 1770- 1797. [v.1] 1770-1797 -- [v.2] 1798-1830 -- [v.3] 1830-1858 -- [v. 4] 1858-1897.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
4 v. ; 34 cm. or smaller.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Treasurers' accounts, 1811-1876. Also included is an account of Jonathan Walton's donation for the schooling of poor children, 1791-1802. Pertinent papers laid in container with book.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ; 20 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Also in same folder is the record of a collection to defray the cost of building a horse stable, 1761 9mo. 22.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ; 42 cm. + 1 item.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Volumes as follows: 5.3 1823-1853, 5.4 1853-1894, 5.5 1894-1899
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 v. ; 20-21 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the Byberry Preparative Meeting School Committee: 4.1 1863 4mo23- 1868 10mo23, 4.2 1878 5mo23-1894 12mo24. Also includes in volume for 1863- 1868: regulations and instructions given to the School Committee, 1857- 1865; will extracts and accounts relating to donations for school purposes, 1858-1864; surplus fund accounts, 1858-1865; school fund records including subscription list, 1800; minutes, propositions, etc. of trustees of school fund, 1812-1857; financial reports, 1858-1865. With: account book, 1800-1865.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 v. ; 19-23 cm.
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
227 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Treasurer's account book, 1801-1912. Copies of pertinent paragraphs from the wills of school fund donors are contained in an attached folder. Appointed by the trustees of the Fund "for the use of schools under the care and direction of Byberry Preparative Meeting. "
Pertinent papers foldered separately.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ; 34 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the school fund trustees, 1800 11mo24-1913 5mo5. Includes financial records.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ; 34 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
An account of the establishment of the school fund and the various legacies that constituted it. Includes balances up to 1867 4mo.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
33 p. ; 16 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Address book used to record names and in some instances addresses of alumni and teachers of Byberry Friends' School. Includes teaching terms of teachers who taught in the school from 1847 and 1918.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
ca. 50 p. used ; 22 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Record of reunions held 1906 8mo18, 1907 8mo17, 1910 6mo15. With: Centennial of Byberry Friends' Meeting House: held at Byberry, Philadelphia, Pa. 9th mo 12th,1908--Byberry Friends, their meeting and the school, library, philosophical society: prepared for the 150 anniversary of the building of Byberry Friends Meeting House, June 14, 1958. Records as follows: 6.2 Original, 6.3 copy.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
49 sheets (in binder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extracts from the minutes of Byberry Preparative Meeting relating to the Walnut Hill School property, 1816-1860. Also included are: a copy of a report from the Friends appointed to receive the trust of the Walnut Hill School property to Byberry Preparative Meeting, 1860 4mo. 24, and a list of articles sold at Walnut Hill School house, 1861 3mo. 29.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
31 p. ; 20 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Annotated volumes belonging to Byberry Preparative Meeting. Includes copies of the rules of discipline of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1806 (2), 1831, 1843; pamphlet on the case of the Seneca Indians, 1841; Philadelphia Yearly Meeting extracts, 1865 (2); A List of the Isolated Members of the Seven Yearly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends in America, 1896.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
8 v. ; 22 cm. or smaller
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Byberry Preparative Meeting's manuscript copy of discipline and advices given by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1785. "The property of Byberry Preparative Meeting 1785." -- Free front endpaper. Includes index.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College