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Goshen 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

Goshen Preparative Meeting was established circa 1703. In 1827, after the Hicksite separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. Goshen Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1891; its members were transferred to Whiteland Preparative Meeting. Goshen Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) was established as Goshen Monthly Meeting at the dissolution of the original Hicksite monthly meeting. In 1956, the second Goshen Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) merged with Goshen Monthly Meeting at Malvern, the former Orthodox meeting, to form the present-day Goshen Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

Records include: pre-Separation minutes, 1807-1814 and subscription list, Twelfth Month 29, 1797; Minute books of the Hicksite men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1827-1937; minute books of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1860-1869, 1877-1889.

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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

RG2/Ph/G64 1.1. Minutes, 1807-1814.
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting Twelfth Month 4, 1807 to Second Month 24, 1814.

General

Volume in very fragile condition : some pages torn, covers wanting.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 202
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v. (in protective envelope) ; 23 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/G64 1.2-1.4. Minutes, 1827-1937.
Scope and Contents

Minute books as follows: 1.2 1827-1850; 1.3 1850-1881; 1.4 1882-1937. Accompanying folder contains the following: two undated membership lists; 1925 minutes not copied in minute book; accounts, 1923; other miscellaneous papers.

General

Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began circa 1889.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 202 (1827-1850)
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

3 v. + 1 folder (19 items)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/G64 2.1-2.2. Minutes, 1860-1889.
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the Hicksite meeting of women friends as follows: 2.1 Third Month 14, 1860 - First Month 20, 1869; 2.2 Tenth Month 17, 1877 - Tenth Month 16, 1889.

General

Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began circa 1889.

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

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/G62 3.1-3.2. Subscription list, Twelfth Month 29, 1797.
Scope and Contents

Volumes are 3.1 subscription list, 3.2 loose pages accompanying minute book, 1882-1937.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

1 item (in folder)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

HC.PhM.G640.01.001 (1250/P1.4). Minutes, 1892-1905.
Box G-23
Physical Description

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

HC.PhM.G640.01.002 (1250/P1.3). Minutes, 1905-1923.
Box G-23
Physical Description

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

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