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Chester 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.
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Chester Monthly Meeting was established as a monthly meeting for Marcus Hook and Upland by the general meeting held at Burlington in 1681. Its first business sessions were held in Eleventh Month, 1681/1682. In Twelfth Month, 1683/1684, the meeting became part of Chester [Concord] Quarterly Meeting. At the time of the Hicksite Separation of 1827, two branches of this monthly meeting were formed.
Chester Monthly Meeting (Hicksite): In 1934, Chester Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) was discontinued, and its two preparative meetings, Chester and Providence, were established as monthly meetings. Chester Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) then became the new Chester Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). In 1948, Chester Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) merged with the Twenty-Fourth Street Monthly Meeting --formerly Chester Preparative Meeting (Orthodox)-- to form Chester United Monthly Meeting of Friends. This meeting was the forerunner of the current Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends, and continuing records are described here.
Chester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox): In 1948, Chester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) released some of its members to form Springfield Monthly Meeting. The members of Chester Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) merged with Chester Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). The membership of Chester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) was therefore identical with that of Media Preparative Meeting, its only remaining preparative meeting. The preparative meeting was accordingly discontinued. In 1952, the monthly meeting became a united meeting by affiliation with the two Concord Quarterly Meetings. In 1952, the Orthodox branch became a united meeting by affiliation with the two Concord Quarterly Meetings. In 1955, the meeting's name was changed to "Media Monthly Meeting". This is currently an active monthly meeting, and its records can be found in the "Media Monthly Meeting Records" collection.
Records of the Chester Monthly Meetings in Chester and Media, Pennsylvania. Includes: births, deaths, marriage certificates, and other vital records, 1677-1961; men's, women's, and joint minutes, 1681-1984; records of the Meeting of Worship and Ministry and Overseers and its predecessors; financial records; and committee and other miscellaneous records. Of additional interest are pre-Separation accounts of sufferings, 1778-1783; manumissions, 1776-1780; and a series of scrapbooks assembled by Gilbert Cope which contain a variety of meeting acknowledgements, disownments, removals, and other records.
Deposit
Organization
- Chester Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1681-1827)
- Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1934-1948)
- Chester United Monthly Meeting of Friends (1948-1955)
- Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1952)
- Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (Media, Pa.)
- Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (1955- )
- Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1934)
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
Meeting's copies of statements of apology by offending members, 1700-1733. Volume also contains: Disownments, 1708-1733.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 104
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Removed from Chester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) miscellaneous papers, 1759-1931.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder (4 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Register contains pre-Separation and Orthodox vital records as follows: Births (1677-1884) and deaths (1682-1884).
Missing letters in original title have been supplied in brackets.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph99
- Haverford: No Film
1 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 folder (2 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Removed from Chester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) miscellaneous papers, 1759-1931.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder (45 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Meeting's copies of marriage certificates, 1692-1782. Volume also contains removals received, 1704-1733.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph99
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Certificates for Rees Willames, 1744-1745, and Jonah Preston, 1756.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder (2 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Index covers from 1782 to 1895 only; not filmed.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph99
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (366 p.) + Index.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph91, 95
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Typescript copies of certificates for marriages held under the meeting's oversight.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (p. 1-73)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Deposited by Media Monthly meeting and housed with Media Monthly Meeting records.
Photostatic copies of marriage certificates.
Filmed to 1961.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph297 (to 1961)
- Haverford: No film
1 v. (loose-leaf)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes Hicksite disownments. "Those marked + were members at the time of the seperation [sic] 10mo 27 1827."
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Register contains information on births, deaths, marriages, removals, etc.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph91
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Membership register includes births, 1827-1855; deaths, 1828-1883. Also contains information on marriages and removals.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph91, 95, 104
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ; 32 cm + 4 sheets (in envelope)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Packets containing draft material for membership register begun in 1885. Includes membership information prior to First Month 1, 1885 (1 packet); membership information after First Month 1, 1885 (2 packets).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 items (1.5 linear ft.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Register contains information on births, deaths, marriages and removals.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph99
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Membership register includes information on births, deaths, and removals for Chester, Middletown, and Providence Preparative Meetings. Pertinent papers laid in.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph91, 95
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Membership register contains information on births, deaths, removals, etc. for Chester, Middletown, and Providence Preparative Meetings.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph91, 95
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Register contains information on births, deaths, marriages, removals, etc. Housed with records of Media Monthly Meeting.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No film
- Haverford: No film
1 v
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Membership records of Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends and of its predecessors, Chester Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) and Chester United Monthly Meeting of Friends, 1935-1959. Included are: removals, marriages, deaths, and some births.
Filmed only to 1947
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph91 (to 1947)
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder (10 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Meeting's copies of letters recommending persons transferring to other meetings, 1765-1816. Includes index. Pertinent papers laid in.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph104
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. + 4 items
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Meeting's copies of letters issued on behalf of members transferring to other meetings, 1816-1936. Includes pre-Separation removals issued, 1816-1827. Pertinent papers removed from volume and placed in accompanying folder.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph104
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. + 1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Meeting's copies of certificates issued on behalf of persons transferring to other meetings, 1828-1916.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. + 2 items
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Removed from Chester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) miscellaneous papers, 1759-1931.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder (3 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rough minutes of Chester Monthly Meeting, 1681-1707. Volume also includes births and deaths, 1677-1711; removals received, 1688-1703; accounts, 1692-1705; and rough minutes of Chester Quarterly Meeting, 1684-1687. Also included is a testimony against selling strong liquors to Native Americans, 1687, with original signatures of early members. Original cover of book bound in at end: "The Register Book belonging to Marcus hook and Upland (?) Meeting ye 3rd of ye 6 monthly 1681."
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph92
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of the pre-Separation meeting as follows: 1.2 1681-1721, 1.3 1722-1745, 1.4 1745-1778, 1.5 1778-1802, 1.6 1802-1826.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 92 (1681-1721, 1722-45)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 93 (1745-78, 1778-1802)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 100 (1802-26)
- Haverford: No Film
5 v. (3 linear ft.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes from First Month 31, 1707 to Third Month 27, 1728. "Gilbert Cope, binder. 1874"--Front endpaper.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph92
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rough or clerks' copies of minutes from Twelfth Month 25, 1716 to Ninth Month 20, 1820. Volumes include 1.8 1716-1720, 1.9 1724-1726, 1.10 1728-1731, 1.11 1731-1733, 1.12 1733-1736, 1.13 1737-1739, 1.14 1740-1745, 1.15 1745-1750, 1.16 1750-1754, 1.17 1755-1758, 1.18 1758-1760, 1.19 1760-1762, 1.20 1762-1763, 1.21 1764-1765, 1.22 1766-1770, 1.23 1771-1773, 1.24 1773-1776, 1.25 1777-1781, 1.26 1781-1782, 1.27 1782-1786, 1.28 1787-1789, 1.29 1790-1792, 1.30 1792-1795, 1.31 1795-1797, 1.32 1797-1803, 1.33 1814, 1.34 1815, 1.35 1815-1816, 1.36 1816-1818, 1.37 1818-1819, 1.38 1819-1820.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
31 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rough or clerks' copies of minutes from First Month 28, 1760 to Sixth Month 29, 1769.
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
Minute books of the Hicksite monthly meeting as follows: 1.1 1827-1875, 1.2 1875-1900, 1.3 1900-1913, 1.4 1914-1926. Minutes, 1926-1934 with: Providence Monthly Meeting of Friends Minutes, 1934-1937.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph94
- Haverford: No Film
4 v. (3 linear ft.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes 1.5 1837-1849, 1.6 1849-1865, 1.7 1865-1880, 1.8 1880-1891.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
4 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes from Sixth Month 17, 1934 to Seventh Month 8, 1943 and from Eighth Month 10, 1943 to Ninth Month 8, 1948. Volume for 1934-1943 also contains minutes of Chester Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1928-1934.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph96 (1943-48)
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of Chester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) and of its predecessor as follows: 1827-1855, 1855-1883, 1884-1905, 1906-1920, 1920-1930, 1931-1941, 1941-1948. Volume for 1827-1855 contains pre-Separation minutes to 10mo 1827 and membership list, 1829.
Joint sessions in which men and women meet together for business begin in 1919.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph100 (1827-55)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph101 (1855-83, 1884-1905)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph102 (1906-20, 1920-30, 1931-40)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph103 (1941-48)
- Haverford: No Film
7 v. ; 3 linear ft.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of Chester United Monthly Meeting (1948-1955) from Ninth Month 19, 1948 to Twelfth Month 9, 1954. Includes membership lists, 1948, 1949, 1952.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph95, 97
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes as follows: 1.2 1955-1961, 1.3 1962-1966, 1.4 1967-1970, 1.5 1971-1980, 1.6 1981-1984. Volume for 1955-1961 contains minutes of Chester United Monthly Meeting to Fifth Month, 1955.
Microfilmed to December 1970.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 97 (1955-61, 1962-66, 1967-70)
- Haverford: No Film
4 v. + 1 folder (6 linear feet)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of the pre-Separation women's meeting as follows: 2.1 1695-1733, 2.2 1733-1779, 2.3 1780-1815. Volume 1695-1733 also contains: Acknowledgments, 1695-1717; disownments, 1712-1717; and accounts, 1701-1741.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph98 (1695-1733, 1733-79)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph105 (1780-1815)
- Haverford: No Film
3 v. (1.5 linear ft.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes 2.4 1805-1807, 2.5 1807-1809, 2.6 1809-1810, 2.7 1810-1813, 2.8 1813-1815, 2.9 1815-1821.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
6 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of the Orthodox monthly meeting of women Friends, 1815-1855, 1856-1907, 1908-1919. Volume for 1815-1855 contains pre-Separation women's minutes, 1815-1827.
Joint sessions with men began in 1919.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph105 (1815-55)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph106 (1856-1907, 1908-19)
- Haverford: No Film
3 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of the Hicksite meeting of women Friends, 2.1 1827-1854, 2.2 1855-1875, 2.3 1876-1900. Volume for 1876-1900 includes minutes of joint sessions with men, Fourth Month 21, 1891-Twelfth Month 25, 1900.
Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began in 1891.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 98 (1827-1854)
- Haverford: No Film
3 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Transferred in 2010 from the Painter Family Papers (RG5/110).
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 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the Committee of Ministry and Counsel of Chester United Monthly Meeting, 1949-1953 (p. 100-130). Volume also contains the following: Minutes of the Committee of Ministry and Counsel of Chester Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1928-1934 (p. 1-43); minutes of joint sessions of the Committees of Ministry and Counsel of Chester and Providence Monthly Meetings, 1934-1936 (p. 44-89); Minutes of the Committee of Ministry and Counsel of Chester Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1mo 16, 1937 (p. 90); minutes of meetings of Ministers and Elders of Chester Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), the Committee of Ministry and Counsel of Chester Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), and Overseers of both meetings, 1941-1942 (p. 94-99).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/Orthodox/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of the Orthodox meeting of ministers and elders as follows: 1825-1828, 1842-1865, 1866-1875, 1877-1901. Volume for 1825-1828 contains pre-Separation minutes, 1825-1827.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
4 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes from Fourth Month 25, 1876 to Tenth Month 21, 1902.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Volume includes minutes of the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1903-1918.
Meeting's name changed from "Ministers and Elders" to "Ministry and Counsel" in 1918.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ; 21 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Volume includes minutes of Worship & Ministry, 1923-1944.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute book of the Meeting of Worship and Ministry and Overseers, 1953- 1977. Contains the following: minutes of the Committee of Ministry and Counsel, Fourth Month 12, 1953 - Tenth Month 24, 1954; minutes of the Meeting on Worship and Ministry, Firth Month 2, 1955 - Tenth Month 24, 1962; minutes of the Meeting of Worship and Ministry and Overseers, Eleventh Month 28, 1962 - Sixth Month 6, 1977. Membership list (1976) laid in.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Returning minute from Baltimore Yearly Meeting (Tenth Month, 1846) on verso.
Removed from Chester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) miscellaneous papers, 1759-1931.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 items (on 1 leaf), foldered
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes accounts of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 1823-1827.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 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 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes Education and Miscellaneous Contributions Committee Reports and Papers.
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
Deeds to meeting's property.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph107
- Haverford: No Film
Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Deeds related to meeting's properties.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 oversize folder and 1 regular folder
Material Specific DetailsOrthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes the following: abstracts of trusts to meeting house, school house lot, lot bought of Jesse Maris; subscription list for purchase of funeral bier; names of trustees, 1736-1827.
Pages heavily foxed.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph104
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
13 items
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Accounts of Friends' sufferings for refusing to pay fines and/or taxes intended for military purposes.
Pages heavily foxed.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. in envelope
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Record of Friends' sufferings for refusing to pay taxes intended for military purposes and/or fines for not serving in the militia.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
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: Orthodox
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 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes from Fifth Month 21, 1910 to Ninth Month 27, 1934.
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
Acknowledgments, 1757-1908; disownments, 1757-1911; removals issued, 1748- 1911; removals received, 1733-1912; travelling certificates, 1753-1911. Includes pre-Separation papers, 1733-1827. Binder's title: Certificates, testimonies and acknowledgments.
Assembled in scrapbook form by Gilbert Cope.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
6 v. (2854 items) (6 linear ft.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extracts from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting minutes, epistles received, advices, answers to queries, quotas, reports, as well as other kinds of papers.
Assembled in scrapbook form by Gilbert Cope in 1887.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (251 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes: deeds and other property records, epistles received, extracts of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting minutes, receipts and other financial records, miscellaneous school records, etc.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 box (24 folders) ; 1.5 linear ft.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
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1 v. in envelope
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes correspondence of Chester Monthly Meeting (Hicksite): 6.1 1942-1948, 6.2 1949-1952, 6.3 1953-1955, 6.4 1956-1958.
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4 v. (2 linear ft.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Notebook containing lists of clerks, ministers & elders, recorders, trustees, etc. for Chester Monthly Meeting, Concord Quarterly Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and other monthly and quarterly meetings within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1789-1941. Begun ca. 1923, probably by William Biddle, presented to Clement E. Allen and continued by him to 1941. Includes pre-Separation, Hicksite, and Orthodox lists.
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1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Notebook containing lists of committee appointments and other actions of Chester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox).
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1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Description based on: Tenth Month, 1929; title from caption.
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28 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Title varies: Calendar and News (2002-2003).
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1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College