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Pilesgrove Preparative Meeting Records

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Overview and metadata sections

Pilesgrove Preparative Meeting was established in 1735. At the time of the Hicksite Separation of 1827, the meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. Pilesgrove Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) was transferred to Salem Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) in 1830. It was discontinued later that year, and its members were transferred to Salem Preparative Meeting (Orthodox). Pilesgrove Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) was established as Woodstown Monthly Meeting in 1928 at the dissolution of Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting. This meeting is often referred to as "Woodstown".

Records of the Hicksite preparative meeting include: Minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1860-1926; women's minutes, 1851-1886; burials at Woodstown, N.J. (including burials of non-Friends), 1816-1903.

Deposit

Publisher
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Date
2003
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

RG2/Ph/P54 3.1. Burials (Woodstown, N.J.), 1816-1903.
Scope and Contents

Graveyard record. Includes burials of non-Friends. Interments of Friends recorded on p. 5-63; interments of non-Friends recorded on p. 64-134.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v. (134 p. ) ; 34 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/P54 1.1-1.2. Minutes, 1860-1926.
Scope and Contents

Minute books as follows: 1860 4mo 26-1901 8mo 22; 1901 9mo 26-1926 12mo 26. Minutes (1927-1929) with: Woodstown Monthly Meeting minutes, 1929-1937.

General

Joint sessions with women began in 12mo 1886.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

2 v. ; 36 cm. or smaller

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/W63 1.1. Minutes, 1927-1929.
General

In Woodstown Monthly Meeting minutes volume (RG2/Ph/W63 1.1) with Woodstown MM records.

RG2/Ph/P54 2.1-2.2. Minutes, 1851-1886.
Scope and Contents

Minutes as follows: 1851 5mo 22-1881 6mo 23; 1881 7mo 21-1886 11mo 25.

General

Joint sessions with men began in 12mo 1886.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: No Film
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

2 v. ; 21 cm. or smaller.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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