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Mount Holly Preparative 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

A meeting for worship known as "Northampton" was organized by Burlington Monthly Meeting in 1684. A preparative meeting was established before 1762. In 1776, the name of the meeting was changed to "Mount Holly." After the Hicksite separation of 1827, the preparative meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches.

In 1828, Mount Holly Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) was transferred to Burlington Monthly Meeting. The preparative meeting was discontinued in 1904, and its members transferred to Burlington Preparative Meeting (Orthodox). The meeting for worship was discontinued in 1912, and an indulged meeting was established at Mount Holly. This meeting was active until 1929.

Mount Holly Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) was discontinued in 1894.

Records of the Mount Holly Preparative Meeting, 1782-1902, include: vital records, 1782-1877; Hicksite men's minutes, 1816-1894; Orthodox men's minutes, 1827-1902; rough minutes of the pre-separation men's meeting, 1823-1827; Hicksite women's minutes, 1865-1880; Orthodox women's minutes, 1849-1891; rough minutes of the pre-separation women's meeting, 1797-1811; account book and other financial records, 1873-1895; Mt. Holly Friends Day School account books and receipt books, 1793-1883.

Deposit

Publisher
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Date
2003
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

Biographical / Historical

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.

HC.PhM.M650.01.001 (1250/R3.9). Births, 1819-1871.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 volume (oversized)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.M650.01.002 (1250/R3.13). Membership, 1831-1874.
Box M-19
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

Biographical / Historical

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.

RG2/Ph/M65 1.1-1.2. Minutes, 1816-1894.
Scope and Contents

Minute books of the Hicksite preparative meeting, 1816-1850 & 1850-1894. Vol. for 1816-1850 contains pre-Separation minutes, 1816-1827. Volumes are 1.1 1816-1850, 1.2 1850-1894.

General

Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began on 10mo 30 1879.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

2 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M65 1.3. Minutes - rough, 1823-1827.
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the pre-Separation meeting, 1823 8mo 28-1826 2mo 2; 1826 8mo 3- 1827 8mo 2.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

2 v.(in envelope).

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

HC.PhM.M650.02.001 (1250/R3.16). Minutes, 1827-1832.
Box M-20
Physical Description

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.M650.02.002 (1250/R3.16). Minutes, 1832-1839.
Box M-20
Physical Description

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.M650.02.003 (1250/R3.16). Minutes, 1839-1846.
Box M-20
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.M650.02.004 (1250/R3.16). Minutes, 1846-1864.
Box M-20
Physical Description

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.M650.02.005 (1250/R3.16). Minutes, 1862-1872.
Box M-20
Physical Description

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.M650.02.006 (1250/R3.16). Minutes, 1872-1902.
Box M-20
Physical Description

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

RG2/Ph/M65 2.1. Minutes, 1797-1811.
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 1797 6mo 27th-1811 10mo 3rd.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v. (in envelope).

HC.PhM.M650.03.001 (1250/R3.16). Minutes, 1849-1873.
Box M-20
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

RG2/Ph/M65 2.2. Minutes, 1865-1880.
Scope and Contents

Minute book of the Women's meeting, 1865 2mo 2-1880 4mo 1.

General

Joint sessions with men began on 10 mo 30, 1879.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v. (ca. 70 p.)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

HC.PhM.M650.03.002 (1250/R3.16). Minutes, 1873-1891.
Box M-20
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

RG2/Ph/M65 3.1. Account book, 1793-1881.
Scope and Contents

Volume also contains receipt book, 1826-1841. Pertinent papers laid in.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v. (31, 31, [24] p.)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M65 3.3. Receipt book: tuition, 1879-1881.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v. ([14] p.)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M65 3.2. Account book, 1879-1883.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v. ([14] p.)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/M65 3.4. Account book : tuition, 1880-1881.
Scope and Contents

Lists of pupils and other pertinent papers laid in.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v. (p. 6-8)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

HC.PhM.M650.04.001 (1250/R3.17). Typewritten copies of information on school, undated.
Box M-20
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

Biographical / Historical

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.

HC.PhM.M650.05.001 (1250/R3.16). Queries and Responses, 1832-1898.
Box M-20
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.M650.05.002 (1250/R3.16). Queries and Responses, 1878-1903.
Box M-20
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

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