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Darby 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
Darby Monthly Meeting was established in 1684 by Chester [Concord] Quarterly Meeting out of Chester Monthly Meeting. In 1827, after the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches.
Darby Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) removed to Lansdowne in 1831. It was discontinued in 1849 and its members were transferred to Chester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox).
Darby Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), which reunited with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) in 1955, was the forerunner of the current Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends.
Records include: minutes since 1684; vital records since 1670; women's minutes; ministers and elders' minutes; financial and property records, etc. Records include a digitized minute book (held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania) and a digital press release related to Darby Meeting's history with the Underground Rail Road.
Deposit
A series of acidic scrapbooks with miscellaneous meeting records, 1682-1919, were disassembled and the contents stored by genre type in acid-free folders. These scrapbooks were filmed, probably in the 1940s, and can be viewed on Reel MR-Ph 150 in Friends Historical Library. Loose records, deposited by the meeting, have been added to these folders and the same are described in the inventory below.
Organization
- Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955)
- Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1849)
- Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends
Subject
Place
- Publisher
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends.
- 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
At the time of the Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1827-28, pre-Separation vital records were generally retained by the branch with which the recorder was affiliated. Researchers are advised to consider vital records which span this period carefully: in many cases, the meeting without the original records may have reconstructed these records for its membership only, giving the impression that individuals in the other branch were never members.
Filed in box with: Miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
47 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
"A List of the births recorded in the books of the Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends / compiled ... from the original books of record by Morgan Bunting" With: A List of the deaths recorded in the books of the Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends (1682-1891) / compiled ... by Morgan Bunting.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (74, 51 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Register contains the following: Births (1756-1856); Deaths (1831-1865) entered on pages numbered in opposite direction to Births. Includes indexes. Opposite pages bear duplicate numbering.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph139
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (96, 96, 63, 63 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Record of interments at Friends' Burial Ground, Darby, Pa., 1692-1968. Includes some interments outside Darby, 1966-1968.
Rebinding, the gift of Mary Verlenden, July 1968.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 140 (to 1958)
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([85] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Register also contains: album of John H. Andrews (1820-1827) entered on pages numbered in opposite direction to deaths. Record of deaths kept by Hannah Davis until near her death on 4mo 12 1810; and continued by her son Hugh Lloyd until 1820, when he asked John H. Andrews to keep it. Andrews kept the death record until 1828, at which time the register was lost. It was recovered in 1858 and given to George Serrill. Serrill copied the deaths from different sources up to 3mo 5th 1858 (inclusive) and kept the record until 1898.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([58], [10] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Box contains the following: Acknowledgments (1705-1769 and n.d.); disownments (1707-1783). Also included are: certificates of clearness to marry (1750-1758); miscellaneous minute extracts (1731-1752); papers relating to various disciplinary matters (1751, 1754, 1765); removal (1755); letter from Baltimore Yearly Meeting acknowledging William Horne's visit (1758); travelling certificate for William Horne (1763); acknowledgment to Chester Monthly Meeting (1723); receipt (1757); copy of epistle from Quarterly Meeting concerning contribution recommended by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (1723).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
116 items (in box)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Disownments as follows: 1809-1811, 1828-1849 and undated. Volumes are 3.7 A-H and 3.8 J-W.
Filed in box with: Miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
226 items (in 2 folders)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Meeting's copies of marriage certificates, 1684-1848. Includes pre- Separation and Hicksite records. Includes index. Typescript copy of certificates (1684-1712) inserted in front of book. Title page and cover have date: 1694-1848.
Filed in box with: Miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph139
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (376 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Copies of parental consent and certificates of clearness for marriage, 1721 -1832.
Filed in box with: Miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
4 items (1 folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Copies of marriage certificates (non-Quaker), 1730-1745.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
6 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Meeting's copies of marriage certificates. Includes index.
Filed in box with: Miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (8, 19 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Register contains information on deaths, disownments, removals, marriages.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 139
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([45] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Membership register contains: information on births, deaths, removals, marriages, etc.; membership list, 1879. Includes index.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 139
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([106] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Membership register of the Orthodox monthly meeting. Includes information on births, deaths, disownments, removals, etc. Opposite pages bear duplicate numbering.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (24, 23a p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Record book contains the following: Births (1684-1839) and deaths (1682- 1835).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph139
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (211 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Register contains the following: Births and deaths, 1827-1849; removals issued, 1828-1848. Includes index to removals.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph149
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (6, 27)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Certificates of removal received from other meetings for persons who were moving within the compass of Darby Monthly Meeting. Also included is one item relating to a disciplinary matter (1765).
Filed in box with: Removals issued, 1760-1772.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
100 items (in box)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Meeting's record of certificates of removal for persons moving within the compass of other meetings. Volumes as follows: 3.19 1751-1772 & 3.20 1772-1797.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph146
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Meeting's copies of certificates issued to persons removing within the compass of other meetings. Included are the following: Joseph Randal (1760 5mo 1); Jonathan Paschall (1760 10mo 30); Mary Matson (1772 4mo 30).
Filed in box with: Removals received (1713-1776), but foldered separately.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 items
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Record of certificates of removal issued by Darby Monthly Meeting for members transferring to other meetings (1797-1854) and (1854-1924). Volumes are 3.22 1797-1854, and 3.23 1854-1924.
Filed in box with: Removals received (1713-1776), but foldered separately.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 146
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Original certificates of removal for women Friends. Includes pre-Separation and Orthodox certificates.
Filed with: Miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882 (Box 2).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
342 items (in 4 folders)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Compiled by Morgan Bunting. Abstract contains the following: Births (1670-1890); marriages (1684-1891) with index to maiden names mentioned in marriages list; cases of discipline on account of marriage (interspersed with marriages); removals received and sent (1682-1890); deaths (1682-1891). Errata slip laid in between leaves 1 and 2. Volumes are 3.28 vital records (abstract), 3.29 Births and Deaths 1682-1835, 3.30 Births, Abstract 1670-1880, 3.31 Births and Deaths 1827-1849, and removals 1827-1849.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (31, [99], 20 leaves)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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.
Extracts from the first volume of minutes of Darby Monthly Meeting.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (12 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of the pre-Separation men's meeting as follows: 1684-1763; 1763-1783; 1783-1807. Volume (1684-1763) also contains: births (1670-1718); deaths (1682-1718); marriage certificates (1684-1712); removals received (1682-1707). Accompanied by a separate index (1684-1891).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph141
- Haverford: No Film
3 v. (1.5 linear ft.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extracts from the minutes of Darby Monthly Meeting, Concord Quarterly Meeting, and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1684-1848, with related correspondence, 1855 & 1882.
Filed in box with: Miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rough or clerk's copies of minutes as follows: 1752-1757 (copybook) & 1752-1771 (unbound, with gaps).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph150
- Haverford: No Film
2 folders (1 v., 61 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Digitized surrogate. Clerk's copy of minutes with coverage 1743-1749, 1796-1798, 1799-1801.
Accompanied by: Index (1 folder ; 34 cm.).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph142
- Haverford: Film 58
1 v. (64 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of the Hicksite men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women as follows: 1827-1833; 1833-1856; 1857-1891; 1891-1922; 1922- 1950. Volume (1807-1833) contains minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting, 1807-1827. Volumes are 1.12 1807-1833, 1.13 1833-1856, 1.14 1857-1891, 1.15 1891-1922, 1.16 1922-1950.
Joint sessions in which men and women meet together for business begin in 1891.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 143 (1807-33, 1833-56, 1857-91)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 144 (1891-1922, 1922-50)
- Haverford: No Film
5 v. (3 linear ft.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Typescript copies of minutes relating to the Hicksite Separation (1827- 1828).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 items in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rough copies of minutes of the Orthodox men's meeting, 9mo 25, 1827-6mo 28, 1836. 1.18a index also includes: Women's minutes (1826-1840).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 142
- Haverford: Film 58
1 v. (261 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the Orthodox men's meeting as follows: 9mo 25, 1827-5mo 1, 1849. Includes index.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph148
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (257, 26 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rough minutes as follows: 1mo 20, 1879-12mo 24, 1888. Membership list (3mo 1879) laid in.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (123 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute book contains the following: Hicksite minutes, 1951-1955; united meeting minutes, 1955-1974.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 294
- Haverford: Film 21Q
1 v. (400 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes women's minutes.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Early minutes transcribed in 1729.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph148
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (418 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Typewritten copy of women's minute book (1684-1796) by Anna M. Bunting, 1900-1901; indexed by Morgan Bunting, 1902. Includes index. Corrections included: p. 427-428. "Copied from the original minute book now in possession of Orthodox Friends at their meeting house in Media by Anna M. Bunting, 1900-1901."
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([36], 428 p.) ; 37 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rough minutes of the pre-Separation women's meeting as follows: 2.3 1748-1760, 2.4 1760-1774, 2.5 1807-1809, 2.6 1809-1815, 2.7 1815-1826.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
5 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Manuscript copy of minutes of the pre-Separation meeting of women Friends (9mo 1, 1796-5mo 29, 1827). Volume also includes minutes of the Orthodox women's meeting, 1827-1828. Copied from the original minute book by Morgan Bunting, 1896-1897. Orthodox minutes copied in red ink on p. 259-262.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([18], 262 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Volume contains the following: minutes of the pre-Separation meeting of women Friends (9mo 1, 1796-5mo 29, 1827) and minutes of the Orthodox meeting of women Friends (6mo 26, 1827-5mo 1, 1849).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph149
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (477 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rough copies of minutes of the Orthodox meeting of women Friends. Includes minutes of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 1826-1827. Index (1826-1840) in folder with index to men's minutes [rough], 1827-1836. Volumes are 2.10 1826-1827 and 2.11 1826-1840.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph142 (1826-40)
- Haverford: Film 58 (1826-40)
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of the Hicksite meeting of women Friends as follows: 6mo 26, 1827-3mo 26, 1857; 4mo 21, 1857-1mo 19, 1891. Volumes are 2.12 1827-1857 and 2.13 1857-1891.
Joint sessions in which men and women meet together for business begin in 1891.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph145, 147
- Haverford: No Film
2 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
Rough minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 10mo 25, 1864-6mo 24, 1878.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (188 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Committee which had care of the spiritual welfare of the meeting, particularly the meeting for worship. Ministry and Counsel committees were established in 1918 by Hicksite meetings, which no longer designated members as ministers or elders. The predecessor of Ministry and Counsel was the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([45] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes as follows: 1861-1864; 1868-1901. There is a gap from 7mo 24 1864 to 1867 inclusive. Queries laid in.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([165 p.])
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the Darby (Hicksite) Meeting of Ministry and Counsel from 7mo 21, 1918 to 10mo 19, 1919; and minutes of its predecessor, the Ministers and Elders' Meeting from 1mo 16, 1902 to 4mo 21, 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. (110 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Travelling certificates recommending ministers and those who accompanied them from Darby Monthly Meeting, 1829-1848. Includes minutes for William Carter, Jane Garrett, Hannah Gibbons, Samuel Rhoads, Sarah Rhoads, and Abigail Richards.
Filed in box with: miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
15 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Record of goods taken.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (55 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Treasurer's books as follows: 5.2 1832-1866 and 5.3 1867-1894.
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- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Cash book of Darby Monthly Meeting, 1848-1926. Also contains the following: accounts of Committee for the enlargement and improvement of the burial ground (1854) and accounts for raising and repairing the school house (1855 -1856).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([450] p.)
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. (317 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous financial papers of Darby Monthly Meeting, 1735-1757. Also included is one acknowledgment, 1736 1mo 3.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
7 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
. Miscellaneous financial papers, 1815-1865, including receipts and financial correspondence.
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- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder (34 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Filed in box with: Miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
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- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 items (1 folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
With: Account book, 1828-1851.
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- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (36 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes index.
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- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([40] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Deeds and other papers concerning the meeting's property.
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- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
8 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Copy of a lease for a building in Upper Darby to use as a meeting house, 12mo25 1827.
Filed in box with: Miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 item (1 folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Receipt (1890 April 3) laid in.
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- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (94 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Pertinent papers laid in. Volumes are 7.2 1888-1898 and 7.3 1895-1917.
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- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Contains signatures of alumni, souvenir program, history, etc. Title from cover.
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- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (loose-leaf)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (189 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Epistles from London Yearly Meeting, 1751-1772; miscellaneous epistles received, 1718-1775; volume of extracts from minutes of yearly and quarterly meetings, 1706-1774.
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- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1.5 linear ft.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous papers of Darby Monthly Meeting collected by Abraham Bonsall, clerk, 1750-1772. Included are: copies of answers to queries reported to the quarterly meeting, 1753-1771; travelling certificates, 1751-1763; copy of rules to be added to the Book of Discipline, 1747; reports related to persons who had not produced certificates of removal, 1755.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1.5 linear ft. (69 items in box)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Chiefly manuscripts found among the papers of Abraham Bonsall, Clerk of Darby Monthly Meeting, 1750-1772; originally mounted and indexed by Mary McAllister, Anna M. Bunting, and Morgan Bunting in 1897. Included are: certificates of removal received (1721-1775 & 1841); financial papers (1731 -1750, 1732-1776, 1822); acknowledgments (1730-1771 & between 1870 and 1880); marriage papers (1744-1772); queries and miscellaneous correspondence with Quarterly Meeting (1721-1759); disownments and other papers concerning disciplinary matters (1751-1788; 1751-1788); miscellaneous extracts (1738-1761); epistles received (1767-1785); travelling certificates (1752-1761) and memorials (1774, 1835 and n.d.). Accompanied by: Index, 1718-1841 (16 sheets in folder ; 37 cm.).
Removed from acidic scrapbook (where roughly chronologically arranged) and placed in folders (where topically arranged). Other papers of Darby Monthly Meeting added later. Microfilmed in scrapbook form.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 145 (1718-1841 index)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 146 (1718-1841)
- Haverford: No Film
146 items (in 12 folders)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Advices issued by the Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, 1698-1776 & n.d., particularly in matters of dress and children.
Filed in box with: Miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
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6 items (in 1 folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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1 folder (26 items) ; 38 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Copies of dreams, visions, verse, etc. originally dating from 1699-1776. Includes: Part of Isaac Alexander's Testimony, 1699; A Letter to a Friends -- who had a Conscientious Scruple about paying the Provincial Tax by Mary Peasly, n.d.; A dream or a Vision a Certain Person had at Swansey, 1734; On Catharine Payton, n.d.; A vision which Merteck Michener saw concerning the land of her Nativity, 1776; A Remarkable Dream, 1762; Atheism, n.d.; An Epistle from William Mott, 1765; and miscellaneous extracts.
Vol. is fragile and in two pieces. Filed in box with: Miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
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- Swarthmore: No Film
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1 vol. (in 1 folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Filed in box with: miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
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- Haverford: No Film
2 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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1 v. (60, [1] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Manuscript copy of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Discipline (1719). Includes tied sheets with additions to 1747.
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1 v. (60, [3] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Copies of Epistles, 1707-1846. Includes epistles from Darby Monthly Meeting of Women Friends to the men's meeting (8.21), 1707; from Elener Smith, 1708; from Dublin Yearly Meeting of Women Friends (8.22), 1836-1841; from London Yearly Meeting of Women Friends (8.23), 1761-1846; from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Women Friends (8.24), 1709-1831; and from Elizabeth Smith, 1772 (8.25).
Filed in box with: Miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
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- Haverford: No Film
5 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous papers, including the report of the committee appointed to visit Darby by Concord Quarterly Meeting in 1849.
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1 folder (7 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
"An Exhortation to friends to be read in all of the monthly meetings within the circuit of the yearly meeting of Rhode Island or elsewhere as friends may think fitt." Copy made for Edith Newlin.
Filed in box with: Miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
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1 item (1 folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
"...with reference to the minutes of Darby Monthly Meeting from 1682- 1851." Notes taken by an anonymous scholar, primarily concerning membership and discipline in the Society of Friends.
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- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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42 p. : front., plates
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Queries and answers, 1755-1843 & n.d.
Filed in box with: Miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
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- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Filed in box with: miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
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1 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
An account and other reports to the quarterly meeting concerning the Hicksite Separation, 1827-1829.
Filed in box with: miscellaneous papers, 1684-1882.
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5 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Volumes are 8.33 150th anniversary, 8.34 Extracts from minutes of Concord Quarterly Meeting 1707-1855, 8.35 Book of dreams, visions, and verse 1699-1776, 8.36 Miscellaneous Papers, 1694-1884.
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- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (loose-leaf)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
In October 2023, the Darby Friends Meetinghouse and School site was accepted by the National Parks Service's National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.