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Mount Holly 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
Mount Holly Monthly Meeting was established in 1776 by Burlington Quarterly Meeting out of Burlington Monthly Meeting. In 1827, after the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the Meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. The Orthodox Meeting was discontinued in 1828; its members were transferred to Burlington Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). Mount Holly Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), which reunited with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) in 1955, was the forerunner of the current Mount Holly Monthly Meeting of Friends.
Records of Mount Holly Monthly Meeting, 1706-2014, include: vital records, 1706-1947; Pre-Separation, Hicksite, and United men's minutes, 1776-1984 and 1989-2006/2010-2014; Orthodox men's minutes, 1827-1828; Hicksite women's minutes, 1776-1879; Orthodox women's minutes, 1827-1828; minutes of the Hicksite and United Meeting of Worship and Ministry and of its predecessors, the Meeting of Ministers and Elders and the Meeting of Ministry and Counsel, 1839-1857 and 1890-1956; minutes of the Orthodox Meeting of Worship and Ministry, 1827-1828; financial records, 1777-1962; miscellaneous papers; sufferings, 1805-1835; Mount Holly First Day School records, 1871-1963; Mount First Day School, 1886-1897; Mount Holly Young Friends' Association records, 1893-1927; trustees records, 1882-1932; Social Service Committee minutes, 1937-1943.
Deposit
Organization
- Mount Holly Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955)
- Mount Holly Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1828)
- Mount Holly Monthly Meeting of Friends
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
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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
Included are: Abstracts of births, deaths, marriages, removals, 1706-1884.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph329
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Record book of the Hicksite Monthly Meeting probably begun in 1828. Contains the following: Births, 1747-1890; Deaths, 1828-1896; Marriage certificates, 1827-1924; Membership, 1876; Removals issued, 1827-1915; Removals received, 1890-1924. Includes index to removals and marriage certificates. Removals and marrigaes recorded beginning in back of book in opposite direction to births, deaths and membership lists.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph328
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (36, 20, 14 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Indexed.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph285
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Record of interments in Friends' Burial Ground, Mt. Holly, N.J.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph328
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (93 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Record of interments in Friends' Burial Ground, Mt. Holly, N.J. Contains pre-Separation burial records, 1776-1827. Indexed.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph328
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (133 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph285/585
- Haverford: Microfilm 60
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph285
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Certificates as follows: 1839 11mo 20 (for Samuel Comfort to proceed in marriage with Elizabeth Cox); 1840 1mo 22 (for Lydia L. Comfort; for Daniel Neall to proceed in marriage); 1859 12mo 6 (for Amasa B. Engle, his wife and minor daughter).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
4 items (in envelope).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Records of interments in Friends' Burial Ground, Mt. Holly, N.J. as follows: 1842-1856, 1842-1922.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-PH328
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
New Jersey State certificate of marriage for Michael Scott Strasser and Susannah Jane Fox, 1986.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 item (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: Microfilm 132A
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minute books of the pre-Separation men's meeting, 1776 10mo 9-1793 4mo 4 and 1793 5mo 9-1818 1mo 8. Minute book (1776-1793) is in fragile condition and should not be used. Volume 1776-1793 accompanied by separate index.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph329
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Manuscript copy of original minutes made in 1883.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph329
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (403 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of the Hicksite men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women as follows : 1818-1852 ; 1852-1903 ; 1903-1932 ; 1932-1946. Volume for 1818-1852 contains pre-Separation men's meeting minutes, 1818- 1827. Volume (1932-1946) includes Membership list (1933-1940). Volumes (1818-1852), (1903-1932), (1932-1946) include index.
Joint sessions in which men and women meet together for business began in 11mo 1879.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph329 (1818-52)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph330 (1852-1903, 1903-15/)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph331 (/1915-32, 1932-46)
- Haverford: No Film
4 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rough minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting, 1825 9mo 8-1826 2mo 8.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([30] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Rough drafts of minutes as follows : 1826 11mo 9-1827 7mo 5 ; 1827 8mo 8- 1828 5mo 8; 1828 6mo 5-1830 12mo 9. Includes pre-Separation minutes.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3v. and item (5 folded sheets)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Indexed.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph585
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes from 1947 to 2014, with a gap from 1985 to 1988, as follows : 1947- 56, 1956-59, 1960-69,1970-72, 1972-74, 1975-76, 1977-78, 1979-82, 1982-84, 1989-90, 1990-2001, 2002-04 & 2005-06, 2010-12, 2013-14. Includes minutes of the Hicksite meeting 1947-1955. Minutes to 1984 also available in microfilm. Vol. 1.8 is supplementary materials, 1996-2001.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph331 (1947- 56, 1956-59)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph351 (1960-69,1970-72, 1972-74, 1975-76, 1977-78, 1979-82, 1982-84)
- Haverford: No Film
3 v. + folder + 2 boxes (13 folders).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:H/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute book of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 1776 10mo 9-1805 8mo 8.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph331
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (368 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of the Hicksite Women's meeting 1805 9mo 5-1845 7mo 10; 1845 8mo 7-1879 10mo 9. Volume 1805-1845 includes pre-Separation women's minutes, 1805-1827.
Joint sessions in which men and women meet together for business began in 11mo 1879.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph331
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
folder [On search 1/2021]
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 volumes in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes of the Hicksite Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1839 5mo 9-1857 11mo 5. Volume imperfect : covers wanting.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.([84] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Volume contains Ministers and Elders' minutes, 1890-1918.
Meeting's name changed from Ministers and Elders to Ministry and Counsel in 1918.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (152 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute book contains minutes of the Meeting of Ministry and Counsel, 1928- 1955 and minutes of the Meeting of Worship and Ministry, 1955-1956.
Meeting's name changed from Ministry and Counsel to Worship and Ministry in 1955.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (153 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:H/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Two account books of Mt. Holly Monthly Meeting bound together in one volume : 1777-1786 ; 1814-1878.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 v. in 1
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Treasurer's accounts of Mt. Holly Preparative Meeting (1873-1894) continued by Mt. Holly Monthly Meeting. Volume also contains: graveyard fund accounts (1873-1895).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([100] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Treasurer's account books as follows : 1878-1893, 1896-1912, 1913-1930. Account book for 1896-1912 includes : greveyard fund accounts, 1896-1907.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Book for recording accounts relating to the erection of "an ornamental iron fence along the northerly side of the burial ground and yard on Garden Street." Includes the following : accounts & subscriptions, 1896-1898 ; repair costs, 1961-1962. Fifteen receipts, 1896-97 in folder laid in back of book.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (9 p.) ; 20 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:H/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Accounts of the Finance Committee of the Trustees of Mt. Holly Monthly Meeting, 1882-1930. Includes list of securities held by Mt. Holly Monthly Meeting, 1912. 1931 entries pencilled in.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (116 p.) ; 27 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes financial data, lists of securities held by the meeting, etc.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([100] p.) ; 27 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Treasurer's receipt book, 1882-1915.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([80] p.) ; 15 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Also includes Arney's Mount records: 1775, 1812.
Physical Description1 oversized folder (6.1) and one regular folder (6.2)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
First Day School organized in 1874.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (ca. 70 p.) ; 18 cm.
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
1914-1919
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes minutes of business meetings held to consider having a First Day School.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (ca. 75 p.) ; 19 cm.
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 v. ([60] p.) ; 21 cm.
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 v. ([100] p.) ; 21 cm.
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
20 items (in envelope).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books as follows : 1881-1898, 1899-1913, 1913-1926.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 v. ; 25 cm. or smaller.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute book includes constitution, by-laws and amendments, members' list and attendance record. Volume also contains : minutes of Friends Social (1897-1898), a reading circle organized in 1897.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([130] p.)
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 v. (32 p.)
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
2 v.
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 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Included are : financial records, membership lists, minutes and related papers, visiting minutes, removals, papers concerning the Separation, subscriptions, accounts of sufferings, deeds and other property papers, etc.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
ca. 270 items (in 21 folders)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Box contains the following: Accounts, receipts & other financial papers, 1831-1915 & n.d.; acknowledgements, 1830-1843 & n.d.; Morgan Bunting's proposal for a catalogue of records of the Society of Friends in America, 1897; certificate of incorporation, 7mo 13 1882; disownments, 1847 & n.d.; graveyard records, 1795 & n.d.; "History of Mt. Holly meeting house, 1775- 1925," by Samuel Browne, 1925.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
43 items (in 7 folders)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous printed materials of Mt. Holly Monthly Meeting, 1793-[ca. 1955]. Included are : addresses, memorials, epistles, minute extracts, reports, rules of discipline. Box also contains a working copy of joint Faith and Practice (1955).
Box labelled : Reference material.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
ca. 60 items (in 9 folders)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 booklet in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford Quaker and Special Collections