Main content
Maurice River Monthly Meeting Records
Notifications
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
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.
Deposit
Organization
- Maurice River Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends)
- Maurice River Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1827-1854)
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
-
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
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.
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.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph295
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (25, [4] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 item (16 sheets in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Meeting's copies of marriage certificates, 1807-1844. Register contains records of pre-Separation and Hicksite marriages.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph295
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
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.
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.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph295
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute book of the women's meeting, 1809-1834. Contains pre-Separation and Hicksite women's minutes.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph296
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1833 11mo 2-1854 12mo 2.
Pertinent items laid in and numbered 83-85 for microfilming. Meeting laid down 12mo 2, 1854.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph295
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
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.
Minutes of the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1830 10mo29-1854 2mo4.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph295
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ; 19 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College