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Old Springfield 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
A meeting for worship during the winter months was established at Esiskunk Creek by Burlington Monthly Meeting in 1682/1683; later that year the meeting was permitted to meet on a year-round basis. From 1685-1694, the name of the meeting was Birch Creek. In 1694, it became known as Springfield. After the establishment of Upper Springfield in circa 1728, the meeting was known as Old Springfield or, occasionally, Lower Springfield; it was also known informally as Copany. A preparative meeting was established in 1776, and until 1781, Old Springfield was a preparative meeting of both Burlington and Mount Holly Monthly Meetings. In 1781, it was attached to Burlington only. The Orthodox preparative meeting and meeting for worship were discontinued in 1835; the members were transferred to Mount Holly Preparative Meeting (Orthodox). The Hicksite preparative meeting was discontinued circa 1914.
Records of Old Springfield Preparative Meeting, 1805-1952, include: vital records, 1805-1918; men's minutes, 1773-1914; women's minutes, 1810-1830, 1851-1881; school committee minutes, 1839-1856; account books, 1849-1873, 1903-1952; property records, 1864; miscellaneous papers, 1773-1874.
Deposit
Organization
- Old Springfield Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1776-1827)
- Old Springfield Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite)
Subject
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
Membership register of Old Springfield Preparative Meeting, 1805-1918. Includes information on births, deaths, marriages, disownments, and removals, 1736-1918. Earliest recorded birth: Tenth Month, 1736 (Joseph Haines); latest recorded death: Sixth Month 12, 1918 (Isaiah Atkinson). List first arranged in Second Month, 1805.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume (ca. 70 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes of the Hicksite meeting as follows: 1.1 Eighth Month 20, 1835 - Eighth Month 21, 1851, 1.2 Ninth Month 18, 1851- Tenth Month 25, 1914.
Joint Sessions with women began in 1881.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 volumes
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute book of the Hicksite meeting of women Friends, First Month 18, 1810 - Second Month 18, 1830. Volume contains pre-Separation women's minutes, 1810-1827.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume ([140] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the Hicksite meeting of women Friends, Fifth Month 22, 1851 - First Month 20, 1881.
Joint sessions with men began on First Month 20, 1881.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume (ca. 200 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Treasurer's book, 1903-1929, with a few entries for the period, 1949-1952.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume (p. 12-46, 52)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
8 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Folder contains: Agreement between William C. Hancock and Empson Haines, property committee, and Daniel Kimble for the care of meeting house, Third Month 25, 1864; surveys of meeting's land (4 items), undated.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
5 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume (ca. 40 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Folder contains: printed observation regarding the establishment of school, 1778; printed extract from minutes of Pennsylvania Yearing Meeting regarding education of youth, 1789; lease trustees of old Springfield School to Joseph Timble for a house and two lots of land for one year, 1829; lease, school trustees to Watson Pickering, 1834; agreement between school trustees and Franklin B. Haines, teacher, 1853; acknowledgment (for immoral conduct) of Franklin B. Haines, teacher, 1855; lease, school committee to district school trustees, 1873 (signed 1874).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
7 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Pertinent papers laid in.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume ([40] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 item (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extracts from monthly and yearly meeting minutes, 1773-1802.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
13 items (in folder).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College