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Maurice River 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

Maurice River Monthly Meeting was established in 1804 by Salem Quarterly Meeting out of Great Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting and Greenwich Monthly Meeting. The Orthodox monthly meeting was discontinued in 1828; its members were transferred to Greenwich Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). Maurice River Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) was discontinued in 1854 and its members transferred to Greenwich Monthly Meeting (Hicksite).

Records of the pre-Separation and Hicksite meetings, 1728-1854, include: minutes of the men's meeting, 1804-1828; women's meeting minutes, 1833-1854; ministers and elders' minutes, 1830-1854; birth and death records, 1728-1854; abstract of births and deaths, 1728-1912; and marriage records, 1805-1844.

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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/M38 3.1. Births and deaths, 1728-1854.
Scope and Contents

Register of births and deaths, 1728-1854. Includes pre-Separation and Hicksite vital records. Earliest recorded birth is: Daniel Townsend, 1728 10mo12; latest recorded death is: Nathan Bauer, 1854 7mo23. Some entries give information on disownments, removals. Some deaths 1812-1854 recorded in last four unnumbered pages of volume. Deaths, 1812-1854 recorded in last 4 pages have not been microfilmed.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph295
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v. (25, [4] p.)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M38 3.2. Births and deaths: abstract/copied by John Pickens Dornan, 1728-1912.
Scope and Contents

Births and deaths abstracted from the original register and from other Friends' records and state and/or county records by John Pickens Dornan. Entries in blue ink copied from the meeting's record. Entries in red ink copied from other records.

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 (16 sheets in folder)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M38 3.3. Marriage Records, 1805-1844.
Scope and Contents

Meeting's copies of marriage certificates, 1807-1844. Register contains records of pre-Separation and Hicksite marriages.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph295
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M38 1.1. Minutes, 1804-1823.
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting, 1804 9mo28-1823 1 mo31. Included is a brief account of the meeting's establishment taken primarily from quarterly meeting minutes.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph295
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M38 2.1. Minutes, 1809-1834.
Scope and Contents

Minute book of the women's meeting, 1809-1834. Contains pre-Separation and Hicksite women's minutes.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph296
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M38 2.2. Minutes, 1833-1854.
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1833 11mo 2-1854 12mo 2.

General

Pertinent items laid in and numbered 83-85 for microfilming. Meeting laid down 12mo 2, 1854.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph295
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M38 4.1. Minutes, 1830-1854.
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1830 10mo29-1854 2mo4.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph295
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v. ; 19 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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