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Quakertown and Kingwood Monthly Meetings (1744-1905) 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
Bethlehem Monthly Meeting was established in 1744 by Burlington Quarterly Meeting out of Chesterfield Monthly Meeting. From 1748 to 1859, the name of this monthly meeting was Kingwood. In 1786, the monthly meeting was transferred from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to New York Yearly Meeting.
The Orthodox branch of this meeting was discontinued in 1828, and its members were transferred to Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meeting. In 1832, Kingwood Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) returned to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Before 1859, this meeting was known as Kingwood Monthly Meeting. In 1859, the meeting became known as Quakertown. It was discontinued in 1905 and its members attached to Buckingham Monthly Meeting.
Records of Quakertown Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Kingwood and Bethlehem Monthly Meetings, 1703-1905. Includes: vital records, 1703-1877; Hicksite and pre-Separation men's minutes, 1744-1905; women's minutes, 1744-1905; Ministers' and Elders' minutes, 1756-1787; property records, 1733-1894; miscellaneous papers, 1728-1900.
Deposit
Organization
- Kingwood Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1859)
- Kingwood Monthly Meeting of Friends (1748-1827)
- Monthly Meeting held at Bethlehem (Society of Friends : 1744-1747)
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
Record book of Quakertown Monthly Meeting and of its predecessor, Kingwood Monthly Meeting, 1703-1866. Includes the following: Births, 1703-1805; Marriages, 1752-1866; manumissions, 1794, 1805; memorials, 1761-1794; sufferings, 1776-1779 (Kingwood Preparative Meeting); 1807-1808; 1863-1865.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph529
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (37,40)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Copies of Certificates of Removal issued on behalf of members transferring to other meetings, 1791-1868. Volume also contains births and deaths, 1759- 1921, recorded in back of volume in opposite direction to minutes. Deaths for some members of the Vail family recorded after the meeting's discontinuance in 1905.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 529
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (61, 17 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Contains 4 sets of records
Physical Description1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes of the men's meeting and joint sessions, 1744 7mo10- 1858 12mo4 and 1859 1mo1-1905 11mo4.
Joint sessions in which men and women meet together for business begin on 1mo2 1886.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 529
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rough copy of pre-Separation minutes, 1772-1782, 1782-1787, 1787-1795.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Typescript copies of pre-Separation rough minutes, 1772-82, 1782-87, 1787- 95. Copied by Willis M. Vail in 1927-28.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute book of the Hicksite meeting of women Friends, 1744-1886. Contains pre-Separation women's minutes, 1744-1827 and Hicksite women's minutes, 1827-1886. Minutes for 1881-1886 tipped in.
Joint sessions with men and women meeting together for business began in 1886.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 529
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (358 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rough minutes of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 1790-1796, 1810-1814, 1814-1820.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Typescript copies of rough minutes of the pre-Separation meeting of women Friends, 3mo11, 1790-2mo11 1796; 10mo11, 1810-12mo14, 1820. Volume also contains typescript copy of rough minutes of Hicksite women's minutes, 1832-1836; and typescript copy of additions to Book of Discipline approved by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1747.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (27, 26, 8, 6)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rough copies of Hicksite women's minutes as follows: 1832 11mo8-1836 3mo10; 1859 4mo2-1886 1mo2; 1889 5mo4-1905 11mo4.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 8mo13 1756-10mo11 1787.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Deeds, declarations of trust, plan of meeting's land, property survey, etc, 1789-1894 and n.d.; deeds, 1733-1764.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
21 items (in 2 folders)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Additions to book of discipline, 1747, and Queries, 1755.
Volume imperfect: pages heavily foxed and torn.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (16 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's book of discipline, 1762 with additions, revisions, etc. to 1785. Includes index.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (358, [1] p.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Papers, 1728-1798, put together in scrapbook. Three loose items, 1776-1831, removed from inside back cover and placed in folder.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (23 items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
"Records of the Kingwood Monthly meeting of Friends, Hunterdon County, New Jersey : compiled from the minutes and other manuscripts beginning in 1744" by James W. Moore. Abstract and index published by H.E. Deat, Flemington, N.J. Additional copies on reference in both HV and SW.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections