Main content
Pennsgrove Monthly Meeting Records
Notifications
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
Pennsgrove Monthly Meeting was established in 1842 by Western Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite) out of Fallowfield Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) and New Garden Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). The monthly meeting was discontinued in 1952. Its members were transferred to London Grove, New Garden, West Grove, or Oxford Monthly Meetings.
Records of the Pennsgrove Monthly Meeting, 1833-1968, include: vital records (including births, deaths, removals, marriages, membership, etc.), 1841-1968; Hicksite men's minutes 1842-1952; Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1842-1884; Hicksite minister's and elder's minutes, 1896-1917; miscellaneous property records, 1833-1898; miscellaneous papers, 1951-ca.1952.
Deposit
Organization
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
-
Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.
- Use Restrictions
-
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
At the time of the Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1827-28, pre-Separation vital records were generally retained by the branch with which the recorder was affiliated. Researchers are advised to consider vital records which span this period carefully: in many cases, the meeting without the original records may have reconstructed these records for its membership only, giving the impression that individuals in the other branch were never members.
Meeting's record of births and deaths. Contains births, 1841-1914, and deaths, 1842-1951.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 663
- Haverford: Microfilm 75A
1 v. (18, 17 p.) ; 21 x 33 cm.
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 chart ; 34 x 63 cm. folded to 34 x 16 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:H/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Meeting's record of certificates of removal issued on behalf of persons transferring their membership to other meetings; also transfers without recording of formal minute (1950-52), 1842-1952. Register also contains copies of certificates of marriages under the meeting's care, 1845-1939.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 663
- Haverford: Microfilm 75A
1 v. (60, 77 p.) ; 32 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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.
Minutes of the Hicksite meeting, 1842 3mo11-1879 2mo7 and 1879 3mo7-1920 4mo11. Volume 1842-79 includes membership list, 1868-1879; volume 1879-1920 includes membership lists, 1879-1892; 1892-1903; 1903-1913; 1913-1932. Volumes are 1842-1879, 1.2 1879-1920.
Joint sessions with women began on 4mo11, 1884
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph361.
- Haverford: Microfilm 76A
2 v. ; 33 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the Hicksite meeting, 1920 5mo9-1952 11mo12. Includes membership lists, 1923-1950; 1931-1952.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (229 p.) ; 27 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the Hicksite meeting of women Friends, 3mo11 1842- 2mo1 1879 and 3mo7 1879-3mo7 1884. Volumes are 2.1 1842-1879, 2.2 1879-1884.
Joint sessions in which men and women met together began in 1884.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph361.
- Haverford: Microfilm 76A
2 v. ; 33 cm. or smaller
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Committee which had care of the spiritual welfare of the meeting, particularly the meeting for worship. Ministry and Counsel committees were established in 1918 by Hicksite meetings, which no longer designated members as ministers or elders. The predecessor of Ministry and Counsel was the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (ca. 40 p.) ; 20 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Correspondence, plan, and contract for meeting house construction, 1833- 1898.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
10 items (in folder).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Folder contains: record of bequests to Pennsgrove Preparative Meeting with date of meeting at which each bequest was reported; copy of minute of Western Quarterly Meeting relating to monthly meeting's discontinuance; brief account of Pennsgrove meeting, compiled by J. Howard Broomell.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 items (in folder).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Folder also contains inventory of papers deposited in Friends Historical Library, [1952]. Copies of meeting's history vary slightly.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 items (in folder).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College