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Cecil Monthly 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.

Overview and metadata sections

Cecil Monthly Meeting was established in 1698 out of Third Haven Monthly Meeting. The Orthodox meeting was discontinued in 1928. Cecil Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) became inactive around 1899. In 1941, a "revived meeting" named Cecil Monthly Meeting was established to care for the property & transfer the title to Third Haven Monthly Meeting; this body met primarily in Swarthmore, Pa., and ceased activity in 1952 after its objectives were attained.

Records, pre-Separation and Hicksite, include: minutes, 1698-1899 & 1941-1952; women's meeting minutes, 1765-1848; births & deaths, 1678-1839 and 1751-1851; marriage records, 1698-1784 and 1785-1851; removals issued, 1800-1847; acknowledgements, 1768-1776; disownments, 1767-1777; property records, 1941-1952; History, ca. 1942.

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Publisher
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Date
2011
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.

Use Restrictions

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

RG2/Ph/C4 3.1. Births and deaths, 1678-1839.
Scope and Contents

Births and deaths of Cecil Monthly Meeting, 1678-1839. Earliest recorded birth is William Bayley, 1678; latest recorded death is Susanna Waltham, 1839. Vol. also includes marriage records, 1698-1784. Pages heavily foxed. Includes marriage records, 1698-1784.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph86
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v. ; 32 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Rg2/Ph/C4 3.2. Births and deaths, 1785-1913.
Scope and Contents

Record of births and deaths of Cecil Monthly Meeting, 1785-1913. Earliest recorded birth is John Smyth, 1785; latest recorded death is William P. Norris, 1913. Volume also includes copies of marriage certificates, 1785- 1851. Includes index.

General

With: Marriage records, 1785-1851

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph86
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v. ; 34 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Rg2/Ph/C4 3.3. Removals Issued, 1800-1847.
Scope and Contents

Meeting's copies of certificates of removal issued to members transferring to other meetings, 1800-1847.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph437
  2. Haverford: Film 136A
Physical Description

1 v. ; 33 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/C4 1.1-1.5. Minutes, 1698-1899.
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the pre-Separation meeting, 1698-1827, including clerk's copies, 1795-1799, and minutes of the Hicksite meeting, 1827-1840, 1848-1899, 1941-1952. Volume for 1698-1779 contains Acknowledgements, 1768-1776, and Disownments, 1767-1777. Volumes 1780-1803 and 1803-40 are indexed in the volume. Volumes as follows: 1698-1779, 1795-1799, 1780-1803, 1803-1840, 1848-1899.

General

Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business begin in 1848.

Minute books Arranged chronologically within each volume.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph84 (1780-1803; 1803-40)
  2. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph85 (1795-99)
  3. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph86 (1698-1779)
  4. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph87 (1848-99)
  5. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

5 v. ; 42 cm. or smaller.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/C4 1.6. Minutes, 1941-1952.
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the reestablished Hicksite meeting, 1941-52.

Existence and Location of Copies
  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph84
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/C4 2.1. Minutes, 1765-1848.
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 1765-1827 and minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1827-1848. Minute books. Arranged chronologically within each volume.

General

Joint sessions with men began in 1848.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph84
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

v. ; 34 cm. or smaller.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/C4 2.2. Minutes, 1803-1848.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph84
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/C4 4.1. Property Records, 1941-1952.
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to Meeting's property, 1941-1952. Included are : Letters of Henry C. Turner relating to his gifts for the maintenance and repair of the meetinghouse and burial ground, 1941-1947 ; deed transferring Cecil Monthly Meeting's property to trustees of Third Haven Monthly Meeting, 1952 May 7 ; agreement between Cecil Monthly Meeting and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting trustees, 1950 Jan. 12 ; assignment of income under trust agreement of Jan. 12, 1950, 1952 June 9 ; amendment to trust agreement of Jan. 12, 1950, 1952 June 9. With : Old Cecil Meeting on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1696-1900/ by Elizabeth Chandlee Forman. Typewritten note related to Cecil Monthly Meeting's cemetery laid in.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

10 items (in folder) ; 30 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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