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Pennsdale and Muncy Monthly Meetings 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
Muncy Monthly Meeting was established in 1799 by Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting out of Catawissa Monthly Meeting. At the time of the Hicksite Separation --which in this area of Pennsylvania did not occur until 1829/30--the meeting was divided into Hicksite and Orthodox branches.
The Hicksite monthly meeting was transferred to Fishing Creek Half Yearly Meeting in 1834, and in 1855, its name was changed to Fishing Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends held at Millville. In 1893, the meeting dropped "Fishing Creek" from its name and adopted the name "Monthly Meeting of Friends held at Millville, Pa." Millville is currently an active monthly meeting.
The Orthodox meeting was united with Millville-Muncy [Upper Susquehanna] Quarterly Meeting in 1955. In 1991/92 Upper Susquehanna reported to Yearly Meeting that the former Muncy Preparative Meeting at Pennsdale would become a monthly meeting and change its name to Pennsdale.
Records of Pennsdale Monthly Meeting, Muncy Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), and its pre-Separation predecessor, 1765-1930, include: vital records, 1765-1887; Orthodox men's minutes, 1799-1930, 1938-1949; Orthodox women's minutes, 1799-1921; miscellaneous papers, 1785-1980; minutes and other papers of the Old Scholars Association of the Friends' School at Pennsdale, 1905-1918, etc.
Deposit
Organization
- Muncy Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox)
- Muncy Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends)
- Pennsdale Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends)
Subject
- 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
Volume also contains: Deaths, 1774-1797. Includes index to members of Muncy, Fishing Creek, and Pine Grove preparative meetings.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph333
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (23, [1] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Membership register of the Orthodox meeting. Contains chiefly births and deaths, but also some information on disownments, removals, etc. Includes pre-Separation membership records, 1765-ca. 1830. Title from p. 2 of cover. Includes index
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph333
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (64 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph285
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Meeting's copies of marriage certificates, 1887-1923. Volume also contains: removals issued, 1887-1912; removals received, 1903.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph333
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (50. p in various pagings)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Register contains information on births, deaths, marriages, removals, etc. Includes index. Account of Muncy Monthly Meeting: pages A-B.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (A-B, [21], 4-170 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/O/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Orthodox copy of pre-Separation membership records. Contains information on births, deaths, disownments, marriages, removals, etc. Includes an account of the meeting's establishment copied from the original minute book.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph333
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (41 p. in various pagings)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
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:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Affiliation: Orthodox
Physical Description1 folder
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph270
- Haverford: Microfilm 38
Index in folder in M-20 Box
Physical Description1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Associated index in M680.02.003
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph270
- Haverford: Microfilm 38
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliations: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Associated index in M680.02.005
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph270
- Haverford: Microfilm 38
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph334
- Haverford: Microfilm 39
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes of joint sessions of the Orthodox meeting as follows: 11mo 23, 1938 -2mo 16, 1944; 3mo 26, 1944-4mo 7, 1949. Volume (1938-1944) imperfect: Pages wanting; text begins on p. 63 with minutes of 11mo 23, 1938.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph333
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Volume in fragile condition.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (ca. 150 p.) ; 22 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extracts cover period from 1mo 19 1820 to 8mo 20 1834.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([123] p.) ; 20 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph334
- Haverford: Microfilm 39
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: Microfilm MR-Ph334
- Haverford: Microfilm 39
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-Ph334
- Haverford: Microfilm 39
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Included are: minutes of annual meetings, 1909-1918; clerk's copies of minutes, 1905-1915; record of attendance at annual reunions, 1909-1918; constitution; list of members.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 v. + 1 folder (1.5 linear ft.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Papers of the united monthly meeting and its predecessors, the pre- Separation and Orthodox monthly meetings. Included are: Acknowledgments, 1865 & n.d.; correspondence, 1785-1891, 1905-1980; historical notes, 1937- 1952 & n.d.; miscellaneous minutes and reports, 1796-1924; property records, 1797-1926; receipts and subscription lists, 1801-1926; testimony concerning Mary Cox, 1791; travelling certificates, 1800-1834.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 box (185 items in 9 folders) (1.5 linear ft.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/O/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Contains attendance records and grades. "M. Eliz Whitacre. Shady Bank School - 9.22.1892. Winter"--p. 2 of cover.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (ca. 170 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College