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Merion Monthly 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
Merion Monthly Meeting was established in 1951 by Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite) out of Merion Preparative Meeting at the dissolution of Radnor Monthly Meeting. The monthly meeting was transferred to the newly-formed Haverford Quarterly Meeting in 1955. Merion is currently an active monthly meeting.
Records of Merion Monthly Meeting, 1888-ongoing, as follows: Hicksite and United vital records, 1942-[ongoing]; minutes, 1951-2019; property records, 1891-2001; Hicksite financial records, 1888-1986; and miscellaneous papers. Digital minutes (2001-2009) and newsletters 2021-ongoing also included. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.
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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
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Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.
- 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
Correspondence and other miscellaneous records related to marriages performed under the care of the meeting, 1942-1986.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
The Monthly Meeting for Business 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.
Minute books as follows: 3/1951-12/1960, 1/1958-4/1963 (gaps), 6/1963-6/ 1967, 7/1967-6/1971, 7/1971-12/1975, 1/1976-12/1977, 1/1978-12/1981, 1/1982 -6/1985, 9/1985-3/1989 (no minutes for 4,5/1989), 6/1989-6/1993, 1993-1999, 1990-1997 (Clerk's copy), 2017 3mo-2019 2mo (gaps).
Volume for 1951-1960 includes minutes of Merion Preparative Meeting, 1/1949-2/1951. Volume for 1958-63 includes list of members of Merion Preparative Meeting, 1896-1937.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 volumes + 17 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
(5) digital files (PDF)
Material Specific DetailsUnited
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 and miscellaneous records of the Committee on Worship and Ministry of Merion Friends Meeting, 1958-63, 1941-57, 1957-60, 1960-63, 1963-69, 1969-71, 1977-78, 1971-81/1983-84, 1972-80. Includes minutes of 3/8/67, draft answers to queries, correspondence, and other miscellaneous records. Vol. 1941-57 includes minutes of Ministry and Counsel, Radnor Monthly Meeting, 1938-41. Vol. 1972-80 includes miscellaneous records.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
9 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:H/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes and other records of dealings with the ministry of Robert Rosamond.
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
Correspondence and other miscellaneous papers of the Property Committee of Merion Monthly Meeting, 1970-83.
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
Correspondence and miscellaneous reports of Merion Friends Meeting concerning property matters, 1955-97. Includes information concerning the Meeting House Fund, 1955, as well as a report on Preliminary Structural Research done in 1997.
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
Includes blueprints and plot plans: 1891 (copy), 1949 (set and copy), 1950, 1986, 1999, and abt. 2001 (HABS).
Physical Description2 oversize folders
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Miscellaneous financial records of Merion Monthly and Merion Preparative Meetings, 1888-1940, 1942-1961, and 1965-1992.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 folders.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:H/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Correspondence of the Trustees of Merion Monthly Meeting, 1935-86.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:H/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous records of the Beliefs into Action Committee, 1966-83. Includes reports and other papers of a committee formed as a clearing-house for the appeals that come to the meeting.
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
Miscellaneous records of the Committee on Outreach of Merion Friends Meeting. Includes examples of outreach materials and a report of the PYM Inreach/Outreach Gathering at Krisheim, 1977.
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
Annual reports and other miscellaneous papers of the Religious Education Committee of Merion Monthly Meeting, 1966-73.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 folders
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 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Annual reports and other miscellaneous papers of the Religious Education Committee of Merion Monthly Meeting, 1966-73.
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
Correspondence and other miscellaneous papers of the Overseers of Merion Monthly Meeting, 1966-1983. Also includes minutes: 1953-57, 1957-70, 1970-71/1976-87, 1972-75, and annaul reports, 1958-68.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
6 folders.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous records related to the creation of Merion Monthly Meeting from Radnor, 1934-54. Includes correspondence, drafts, etc.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Binder of miscellaneous papers and reminiscences of Samuel J. Bunting, Jr. concerning Merion Friends Meeting, 1922-1961. Includes research notes on the Welsh in Pennsylvania, notes on visits to First Day Schools, and an original essay on the development of the idea of God.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume
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 folder.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:H/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Notes, reports, agendas, and other papers of the Clerk of Merion Monthly Meeting, 1965-84.
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
Miscellaneous records of the Merion Friends School, 1970-73. Includes annual reports.
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
Guest books, 1949-53 & 1953-61.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Correspondence between Merion Monthly Meeting and the Committee on Organic Union concerning quarterly meeting realignment in anticipation of the reunification of the Philadelphia Yearly Meetings in 1955.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:H/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Membership statistics prepared as part of supplementary queries from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1974-85.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:H/United
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 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 LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous records of Merion Monthly Meeting and of its predecessor, Merion Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1886-2004. Includes: AFSC, Beliefs Into Action Committee, Committee on a Common Book of Discipline (2), Greater Philadephia Council of Churches, Civilian Public Service, correspondence related to the Welsh Tract deed, Incorporation, lists of members and letter requesting membership (4), miscellaneous, memorials, mortgages held to assist others, visit of Nehru, lists of officers and committee members, posters, Shortlidge papers (5), Welsh meetings, and information on the Waln family.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
25 folders in 2 boxes
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:H/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Autobiography of Shigeko Sakamoto Kawano, a member of Merion Monthly Meeting.
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 folder.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Description based on: Fall 1951 issue; title from caption.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
4 folders in 1 box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:H/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
10 PDF files