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Concord Preparative 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
Concord Preparative Meeting was established in 1700. At the time of the Hicksite Separation of 1827, the meeting divided into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. The Orthodox preparative meeting was discontinued after 1909. The Hicksite preparative meeting was discontinued in 1914 and its business assumed by Concord Monthly Meeting.
Records include: Minutes of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 1813-1819; a pre-Separation subscription book, 1810-1813. Minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting and later, of joint sessions of men and women Friends, 1850-1914; minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1850-1877; Minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting, 1807-1827; minutes of the Orthodox men's meeting, 1827-1834; school fund account book, 1786-1827; poor fund account book, 1791-1826.
Deposit
Organization
- Concord Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox)
- Concord Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite)
- Concord Preparative 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
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
Minute books as follows: 1.1 1850-1892; 1.2 1893-1914, 1.3 Minutes 1807-1834 (copy), Account Book School Fund1736-1827, Account Book Care of Floor 1791-1826. Joint sessions with women began ca. 1877.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 v. ; 27 cm. or smaller
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 1813 2mo 24-1819 5mo 26.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ; 20 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books as follows: 2.2 1850-1860; 2.3 1861-1877.
Joint sessions with men began ca. 1877.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 v. ; 21 cm. or smaller
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 booklet in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Book begun on 12mo 19, 1810; latest entry dated 4mo 1813.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. in folder ; 28 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College