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Northwest Fork Monthly Meeting Records
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Northwest Fork Monthly Meeting was established in 1800. In 1847 the Meeting purchased land in Dorchester County, Maryland to construct a meeting house.
According to Thomas C. Hill, Northwest Fork began as a Nicholite group in 1774 before joining with the Quakers under Third Haven Monthly Meeting as a Preparative Meeting in 1798. Its Preparative Meetings included Northwest Fork, Pine Grove, and Preston, but Pine Grove was laid down in 1891 leaving just two preparatives. Hill's research shows additional subordinate groups of Centre and Tuckahoe Neck.
Northwest Fork, like the rest of the Southern Quarter, remained with the Hicksite Branch in the 1828 Separation, and was laid down in 1946.
Two items from Northwest Fork Monthly Meeting: a 1847 deed and a 1899 letter to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Representative Committee.
Found in Sadsbury Monthly Meeting Records; deposit by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
- Publisher
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- Caitlin Goodman
- Finding Aid Date
- 2024
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- 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
Deed of Silas Jaues(?) to the Trustees of Northwest Fork Monthly Meeting for a meeting house in Dorcester Co, Maryland.
Material Specific DetailsHicksite
A request for support and counsel to the Representative Meeting of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting by William(?) Kelly, a correspondent on behalf of Northwest Fork Monthly Meeting. The request is related to a discipline and property disupte with the members of what had previously been Pine Grove Preparative Meeting which was laid down in 1891. The letter also includes relevant extracts from the minutes from 1844-1891.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsHicksite