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Crosswicks and Chesterfield Preparative Meetings 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.

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Chesterfield Preparative Meeting was first established in 1726, then discontinued in 1738. It was re-established in 1763, and again discontinued, then was established for a third time in 1775. In 1827, after the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the preparative meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. In 1919, Chesterfield Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) changed its name to "Crosswicks Preparative Meeting". In 1958, Chesterfield Preparative Meeting, the former Orthodox meeting, merged with Crosswicks Preparative Meeting, the former Hicksite meeting, to form Crosswicks Preparative Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. This preparative Meeting became Crosswicks Monthly Meeting in 1974.

Records of Crosswicks Preparative meeting and its predecessor, Chesterfield Preparative Meeting, include: Hicksite men's minutes, 1793-1799, 1884-1937; Orthodox men's minutes, 1827-1956; pre-Separation women's minutes, 1796-1826; Orthodox women's meeting, 1796-1903; Hicksite account books, 1819-1847, 1899-1950; Orthodox account books, 1863-1970; Orthodox women's account books, 1857-1911; Crosswicks building committee account books and stockholder's minutes, 1830-1854; property records, 1847-1886; school fund trustees records, 1793-1970; Hicksite men's minutes, 1793-1799, 1884-1937; Hicksite women's minutes, 1796-1826; Hicksite treasurer's account books, 1819-1847, 1899-1950; Hicksite minutes of the particular meeting at Chesterfield, 1783-1805.

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Organization
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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

Biographical / Historical

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.

RG2/Ph/C48 1.1-1.2. Minutes, 1793-1799.
Scope and Contents

Minute books of the pre-Separation men's meeting as follows: 1.1 1793-1798, 1.2 1798-1799.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

2 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/C48 1.3. Minutes, 1884-1937.
Scope and Contents

Minutes of Crosswicks Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and of its predecessor, Chesterfield Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), from 1884-1937.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 138
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/C48 1.4-1.5. Minutes, 1938-1973.
Scope and Contents

Minutes of Crosswicks Preparative Meeting: 1.4 1938-1963, 1.5 1963-1973

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

2 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite/United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

HC.PhM.C480.01.001 (1250/L4.14). Minutes, 1827-1831.
Box C-5
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.C480.01.002 (1250/L4.15). Minutes, 1831-1841.
Box C-5
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.C480.01.003 (1250/L4.16). Minutes, 1841-1877.
Box C-6
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.C480.01.004 (1250/L4.17). Minutes, 1877-1956.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox/United

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

RG2/Ph/C48 2.1-2.2. Minutes, 1796-1826.
Scope and Contents

Minute books of the pre-Separation women's meeting as follows: 2.1 1796-1821, 2.2 1821-1826.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

2 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

HC.PhM.C480.02.001 (1250/L4.18). Minutes, 1826-1837.
Box C-6
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.C480.02.002 (1250/L4.19). Minutes, 1837-1903.
Box C-6
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the Orthodox Women's meeting, 1837-1845, 1845-1857, 1857-1872, 1872-1892, and 1892-1903

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

5 volumes in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.C480.02.003 (1250/L4.21). Minutes of Ministers and Elders, 1895-1945.
Box C-6
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

RG2/Ph/C48 3.2. Treasurer's book, 1819-1847.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

1 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

HC.PhM.C480.03.002 (1250/L4.5). Account Book [Women], 1857-1911.
Box C-6
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

1 booklet in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.C480.03.003 (1250/L4.23). Account Book, 1863-1970.
Box C-6
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox/United

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

RG2/Ph/C48 3.1. Treasurer's book belonging to Chesterfield Preparative Meeting of Friends at Crosswicks, New Jersey, 1899-1950.
Scope and Contents

Includes accounts of the meeting's predecessor, Chesterfield Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1899-1919.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

1 v. ; 21 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

HC.PhM.C480.03.001 (1250/L4.24). Trustees - School Fund Account Book, 1793-1970.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox/United

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.C480.03.004 (1250/L4.24.1). Trustees - School Fund Legal Papers (Wills), 1951, 1956.
Box C-6
Scope and Contents

Wills

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox/United

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

RG2/Ph/C48 4.1-4.2. Minutes, 1783-1805.
Scope and Contents

Minute books of a particular meeting at Chesterfield appointed to have care of the meeting house and property, 4.1 1783-1794 and 4.2 1794-1805.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

2 v. ; 21 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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