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Norristown Preparative 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
An indulged meeting at Norristown was established by Gwynedd Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) in 1852. Norristown Preparative Meeting was established by Abington Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite) in 1860. Its first business sessions were held in 1861. In 1936, the preparative meeting was established as Norristown Monthly Meeting at the dissolution of the first Gwynedd Monthly Meeting (Hicksite).
Records include minutes, including the minutes of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting (Hicksite)'s Joint Committee with charge of Norristown Indulged Meeting (1852-186) and the men's, women's, and joint minutes of Norristown Preparative Meeting (1861-1935). In addition to minute books, collection includes property records (including related to the construction of the Norristown Meeting House), account books, and First Day School records.
Deposit. Some materials (as noted) collected by the late Louis Mullin and deposited by Norristown Friends Meeting.
Subject
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Montgomery County
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Norristown
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
Minutes of the "Joint Committee of Men and Women Friends having charge of the [Indulged] Meeting at Norristown"
Physical Description1 vol [in box]
Material Specific DetailsHicksite
Minute books as follows: 1.1 1861-1913, 1.2 1919-1935. Vol. 1861-1913 also contains : minutes of adjourned meetings of Norristown Friends (Norristown Indulged Meeting), 1858-1860; and minutes of Abington Quarterly Meeting and of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting pertaining to the preparative meeting's establishment. Minutes for 1936 with: Norristown Monthly Meeting minutes, 1936-1947.
Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began on 3mo 24, 1897.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 355 from 1861-1913
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Joint sessions with men began on 3mo 24, 1897.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 355
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (190 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Some deeds are original, some are later transcriptions
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsPre-Separation / Hicksite
Loose invoices and receipts related to the construction of Norristown Meeting House.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsHicksite
Logging contributions of the subscribers to the fund for building the Norristown Meeting House.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsHicksite
Miscellaneous subscription lists for fundraising including property repairs to the Meeting House, Poor Committee work, etc. Includes a 1860 letter from Joseph Foulke to the Gwynedd Boarding Scool transcribing the original list of subscribers and their promised contributions to a 1842 fund to erect the meeting house and graveyard on land Lindley Rossiter purchased from Samuel Jacoby.
Physical Description2 folders
Material Specific DetailsHicksite
Isaac Shoemaker's rough receipt book for the Preparative Meeting.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsHicksite
Treasurer's account book for the Norristown Preparative Meeting of Women Friends. Norristown began meeting in joint session in 1897.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsHicksite
Minute book, 1922-1923, of Committee appointed to supervise repairs and improvements to meeting house.
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: 4.1 1889-1892, 4.2 1892-1897.
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
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsHicksite