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Newtown Preparative Meeting (Bucks County, Pa.) 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
An indulged meeting at Newtown was established under Middletown Monthly Meeting and Wrightstown Monthly Meeting in 1815. The meeting for worship and preparative meeting were established by Bucks Quarterly Meeting under Wrightstown Monthly Meeting in 1817 and transferred to Makefield Monthly Meeting in 1820.
In 1827, the Orthodox branch of this preparative meeting merged with Makefield and Newtown Preparative Meeting; it was discontinued the same year. Newtown Meeting was laid down in 1828.
Newtown Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) became part of Newtown Monthly Meeting in 1926; it merged into the Monthly Meeting in 1940.
Records of the pre-Separation and Hicksite preparative meeting include: Minutes, 1817-1940; women's minutes, 1817-1892; births and deaths, 1753-1891; trustees' minutes, 1893-1938; trustees' papers, 1915-1934; First Day School minutes, 1888-1901; First Day School Committee annual meeting minutes, 1893-1921
Deposit
Organization
- Newtown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Bucks County, Pa.)
- Newtown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : Bucks County, Pa.)
Subject
- Publisher
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Date
- 2003
- 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
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.
Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began in 1892.
Minutes from 11mo 18, 1817 to 10mo 30, 1902. Volume includes: pre- Separation men's meeting minutes, 1817-1827; membership list, 1897-1903.
Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began in 1892.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (ca. 350 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes from 11mo 20, 1902 to 3mo 31, 1921. Volume also includes: Membership list, 1mo 1, 1903. Includes index.
Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began in 1892.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (184 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes from 4mo 28, 1921 to 3mo 4, 1937. Includes membership list, ca. 1921. Pertinent papers laid in.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (159 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began in 1892.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books as follows: 1817-1845, 1845-1857, 1857-1868, 1868-1882, 1882- 1892. Volume 1817-1845 contains pre-Separation women's minutes, 1817-1827.
Joint sessions with men began in 1892.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
5 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books as follows: 1893-1911, 1915-1929, 1929-1938.
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
Miscellaneous papers and trustees' minutes gathered by Anna H. Smith during her tenure as trustee. Included are: Trustees' minutes [abstract], 1915- 1921 and 1922-1926; Newtown Monthly Meeting membership, 1926-1927; burials, 1821-1834; graveyard charts, 1929 and n.d.; budgets and correspondence relating to fund raising, 1921-1922; list of committee appointments, [1927?].
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder (4 v. + 9 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books as follows: 1888-1889; 1899-1901. Vol. 1888-1889 includes attendance record, 1888-1889.
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
Minutes from 8mo 30, 1893 to 7mo 21, 1921.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([90] p.) ; 22 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College