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Fallsington Friends and Falls Monthly Meetings 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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Falls Monthly Meeting was established by Burlington Quarterly Meeting in 1683. It was transferred to Bucks Quarterly Meeting later that year. After the Hicksite Separation of 1827, Orthodox and Hicksite branches of this monthly meeting emerged. In 1866, a group of Primitive Friends withdrew from the Orthodox monthly meeting to form a third Falls Monthly Meeting. In 1947, the Hicksite, Orthodox, and Primitive branches of this monthly meeting were merged into a united Falls Monthly Meeting.
In 2002, the name of Falls Monthly Meeting was changed to Fallsington Friends Meeting to reflect the location of the meeting house.
Records include: minutes since 1683; vital records, 1680-1960; Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1683-1819 & 1827-1891 and Orthodox women's minutes, 1820-1918; Hicksite ministers and elders' minutes, 1756-1904 and Orthodox ministers and elders' minutes, 1859-1923; school committee minutes, 1823-1855; miscellaneous papers.
Deposit
Organization
- Falls Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1827-1947)
- Falls Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox : 1827-1947)
- Falls Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Primitive : 1866-1947)
- Falls Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends)
- Fallsington Friends Meeting Inc. (Fallsington, Pa.)
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
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.
Orthodox meeting's copy of vital records. Includes: Births, 1680-1824; Deaths, 1702-1811; Marriages, 1683-1894. Includes index. Includes abstracts of some records copied from the Bucks Quarterly Meeting register, 1682-1782.
Copied in 1898.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (242 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Register also contains: marriages, 3.2 1699-1768. 3.3 Index covers from 1699 to 1759 only.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph170/176
- Haverford: Film 82C
1 v. (77, [1], 334 p.) ; 30 cm. + Index
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Ms. account of the births of the children of Samuel and Priscilla Bunting of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with the names of their subsequent spouses, n.d.
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
Deaths (1815-1836) continued to 1841. Volume includes list of names of visiting Friends (1808-1835) recorded on final five unnumbered pages.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([19] p.) in folder ; 28 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
50 items in folder ; 38 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Arranged in four folders; 3.7 1/10/1828-4/10/1828, 3.8 5/8/1828-12/4/1828, 3.9 1829-34, 3.10 1835-82.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 box (422 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes marriage certificates of the pre-Separation, Orthodox, and united meetings. Volume also contains Births and deaths, 1716-1816. Includes index.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 176
- Haverford: Film 82C
1 v. (355 p. in various pagings)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/O/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Opposite pages bear duplicate numbering.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph176/676
- Haverford: Film 82C
1 v. (64, 64 p.) ; 32 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Two different handwritten list of marriages under the care of Falls Monthly Meeting, arranged chronologically. Neither include month or date, or index to registers or minutes, lists were written by different hands.
Physical Description2 booklets
Material Specific DetailsPre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Lists of members of the Hicksite monthly meeting. Included are: 1827, 1830- 1835, 1852, 1860, 1871, 1881, 1904. Volume also contains list of members of the Orthodox meeting, 1827.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph676
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (66 p.) ; 33 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
List of members of Falls Monthly Meeting, 12mo 1829. Includes the following categories: male adults members; female adult members; minor members (male and female); male members who left the meeting at the time of the Separation in 1827; female members who left the meeting at the time of the Separation in 1827; minor members whose parents left the meeting in 1827.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
6 items (on 1 leaf) ; 33 cm. x 42 cm. folded to 33 x 21 cm.
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 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox/United
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Meeting's copies of certificates of removal received, 1683-1743. Volume also includes: acknowledgments, 1683-1716. Accompanying folder contains: loose certificates received by the meeting, 1698-1801; disownment, 1697; removal issued, 1705. Volumes are 3.15 Removals 1683-1801, Acknowledgements 1683-1716, and 3.16 loose papers.
Volume in fragile condition.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 676
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (64 p.) ; 40 x 17 cm. + 14 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Volumes are 3.17 A-B, 3.18 C, 3.19 D-F, 3.20 G-I, 3.21 J-L, 3.22 M-P, 3.23 recieved R-S, 3.24 T-Z, 3.25 sent A-Z. Box R-Z also contains removals issued, 1712-1862.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 boxes (452 items) (1.5 linear feet)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes records of Orthodox Meeting and Primitive Friends.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Meeting's copies of certificates of removal issued on behalf of persons moving to other meetings, 1828-1881. Folder contains loose certificates, 1837-1881. One certificate of removal received from Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia, 1881 7mo 20 laid in.
3.26 stored in Box 50.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 676
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (88 p.) ; 33 cm. + 12 items.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes list of women's names, probably members of Falls Monthly or Bucks Quarterly Meeting, ca. 1835.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 item (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: 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.
Includes original minutes, 1683-1731, extracts, 1683-1731 (copy), and separate index. Volumes are 1.1, 1.2 Extracts 1683-1731, 1.3 Book A Ms. Copy 1683-1731, 1.4 Index 1683-1731.
Original minute book for 1683-1731 has been disbound and placed in protective case
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph177
- Haverford: Film 77B
4 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Volumes are 1.5, 1.6 1731-1767 (Book B, Ms Copy), 1.7 1731-1767 (index). Includes original minutes and copy, 1731-1767, and separate index.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph177
- Haverford: Film 77B
3 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes original minutes, 1767-1788, copy, 1775-1779 (also includes 1683-1731), and separate index. Volumes are 1.8 1767-1788 Minutes, 1.9 1767-1788 Book C, Ms. Copy, 1.10 1775-79 (Copy of parts of A and C), 1.11 1767-88 (Index).
Original minute book for 1767-1788 has been disbound and placed in protective case
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph177
- Haverford: Film 77B
4 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes original minutes, 1789-1816, copy, and separate index. Volumes are 1.12, 1.13 1789-1816 (Book D Ms. Copy), 1.14 1789-1816 (Index).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph173
- Haverford: Film 87
3 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes original minutes, 1.15 1816-1834, 1.16 copy, 1816-1827, and 1.17 separate index, 1816-1827 (only).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph173
- Haverford: Film 87
3 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph173
- Haverford: Film 87
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph174
- Haverford: Film 89
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph178
- Haverford: Film 88
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph174
- Haverford: Film 89
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph178
- Haverford: Film 88
1 volum
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph174
- Haverford: Film 89
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph178
- Haverford: Film 88
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Volumes are 1.21 1947-53, 1.22 1954-57, 1.23 1958-60, 1.24 1961-63, 1.25 1964-66, 1.26 1967-68, 1.27 1968-72, 1.28 1974-75, 1.29 1978-82, 1.30 1983-87, 1.31 1988-89, 1.32 1990-91, 1.33 1992-93.With gap, 1973-74 & 1976-1977
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
13 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 2.1 1682/3 12mo 6-1774 12mo 7 & 2.2 1775 1mo 4-1819 12mo 9.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph175
- Haverford: Film 81B
2 v. ; 35 cm. or smaller
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books as follows: 2.3 1827 9mo 8-1862 7mo 12; 2.4 1862 8mo 9-1891 12mo 12.
Joint sessions in which men and women meet together for business begin in 1892.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph176
- Haverford: Film 82C
2 v. ; 32 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph175
- Haverford: Film 81B
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph175
- Haverford: Film 81B
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph176
- Haverford: Film 82C
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph176
- Haverford: Film 82C
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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.
Minutes of the Meeting of Ministers & Elders, 4.1 1756-64, 4.2 1765-79, 4.3 1790-98, and 4.4 1813-23.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
4 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of the Hicksite meeting of ministers and elders, 4.5 1826-1832, 4.6 1840-1851, 4.7 1851-1857, 4.8 1857-1866, 4.9 1866-1871, 4.10 1882-1904. Included are minutes of the pre-Separation meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1826-1827. Minute book, 1826-1832, in folder with 1756-1823.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
6 v. ; 25 cm. or smaller
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes of the School Committee, 1823-55. Copy of indenture (1870 March 19) and other pertinent papers laid in.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([130] p.) ; 34 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous papers of the School Committee of Falls Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) and its predecessor, ca. 1795-1859. Includes: rough minutes of the Committee, 1836, 1842-43, 1848-55; accounts, 1831-33; school contract and subscription, 1825; proposed plan of operation of Fallsington School, ca. 1795. Also included, on the back of the latter, is an account of funds for the relief of poor Friends, 1775-1782.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
10 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Typescript of the historical program, introductory remarks by Sandra D. Otis, and A.L.S. to Edwin Bronner concerning the presentation.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous papers of the Falls Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-1863. Includes extracts of minutes of Bucks Quarterly Meeting, 1848-66, report of the Committee on the subject of Middletown Preparative Meeting, 1863, etc.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
7 items (in 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 LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Abstracted records of Falls Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1682-1911, probably constituting an inventory of original records in the Meeting's possession. Includes lists of certificates of removal sent and received, 1698-1880, testimonies & acknowledgements, 1697-1882, certificates and minutes of ministers of Falls Monthly Meeting, 1828-1872, etc. Also includes abstracts of removals, disownments, etc. of Middletown Monthly Meeting, 1829-1860, and lists of miscellaneous records of Buckingham and Wrightstown Monthly Meetings, the Orthodox branches of which were eventually joined to Falls Monthly meeting (Orthodox). Spine reads: Record of Members/Buckingham Mo. Meeting of Friends, Pa.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 vol. ; 30 x 41.5 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes letter from Samuel M. Snipes to Friends Historical Library, 1mo 26 2010, documenting the change of name.
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 box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College