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Mill Creek Preparative Meeting Records
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An indulged meeting at Mill Creek was established in 1838 by New Garden Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) for Friends at Center (Hockessin), New Garden, and Wilmington Monthly Meetings. A meeting for worship and preparative meeting were established in 1841 under New Garden Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). The preparative meeting was discontinued in 1924. By 1937, the meeting for worship at Mill Creek was held on an annual basis. Mill Creek Meeting revived in 1954 as a United meeting for worship under the two Western Quarterly Meetings. It became part of Mill Creek Monthly Meeting in 1955.
Records of Mill Creek Preparative Meeting, 1841-1910, as follows: Hicksite men's minutes, 1841-1883; Hicksite women's minutes, 1854-1891; deeds, 1841, 1880, & 1910.
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- 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
Minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting, 12mo2 1841-3mo29 1883.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (ca. 200 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the Hicksite preparative meeting of women Friends, 5mo4 1854- 9mo3 1891.
Joint sessions with men began after 9mo 1891.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (ca. 50 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes deeds as follows: James Thompson to David Eastburn et al. in trust, 1841; Lewis Fell and David Eastburn, surviving trustees to Richard G. Buckingham et al. trustees for Mill Creek meeting house and lot, 1880; Richard G. Buckingham, surviving trustee to John Edward Mitchell et al., trustees of Mill Creek Friends' Meeting, 1910.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 items (in folder).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College