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Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting 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
Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting was established in 1794 by Salem Quarterly Meeting out of Salem Monthly Meeting. At the time of the Hicksite Separation of 1827, the meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches.
Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1830.
In 1928, Salem Quarterly Meeting approved the dissolution of Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). Its two preparative meetings were then established as Mullica Hill Monthly Meeting and Woodstown Monthly Meeting.
Records of the Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting, 1756-1929, include: vital records, 1756-1928; Hicksite men's minutes, 1794-1929; Orthodox men's minutes, 1827-1830; Hicksite women's minutes, 1794-1823 and 1827-1893; Orthodox women's minutes, 1828-1830; Hicksite ministers and elders' minutes, 1800-1805 and 1836-1897.
Deposit
Organization
- Monthly Meeting of Friends held at Pilesgrove (1794-1827)
- Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox)
- Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting (Society 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
Register also contains: Deaths, 1782-1897.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph666
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (176 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph666
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (454 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Register contains information on births, deaths, marriages,removals, etc.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph237
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (285 p.) ; 30 x 47 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph205
- Haverford: Microfilm 20
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes of the Hicksite meeting and of its predecessor, the pre-Separation meeting, as follows: 1794-1821; 1821-1853; 1854-1891; 1891-1904; 1904-1917; 1917-1929.
Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began on 3mo 28, 1893.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph517 (1891-1904, 1904-17)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph666 (1794-1821)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph667 (1821-53, 1854-91, 1891-1904)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph668 (1904-17)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph669 (1917-29)
- Haverford: No Film
6 v. (6 linear ft.).
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: Microfilm 20
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minute book contains minutes from 3mo 21, 1794 to 5mo 23 1822; folder contains minutes from 9mo 26, 1822 to 8mo 26, 1823
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph517/671
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (276 p.) + 1 folder.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting as follows: 1827-1858; 1858-1893.
Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began in 3mo 1893.
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
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph205
- Haverford: Microfilm 121
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes of the pre-Separation meeting of ministers and elders, 7mo 24, 1800 to 7mo 24, 1805.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([24] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the Hicksite Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1836-1863 and 1863-1897.
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