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Rancocas Preparative 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
Rancocas Preparative Meeting was established in 1776. At the time of the Hicksite Separation of 1827, the meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. Rancocas Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) was discontinued circa 1918. Rancocas Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued circa 1925, and its members were transferred to Burlington Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). This meeting was often referred to as "Ancocas".
Records of the Rancocas Preparatory Meeting, 1720-1956, include: vital records, 1720-1956; minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1799-1914; Orthodox men's meeting minutes, 1856-1919; Hicksite women's minutes, 1853-1885; Orthodox women's minutes, 1839-1924; financial records, 1798-1924; miscellaneous papers, 1826-1831 and n.d.
Deposit
Organization
- Rancocas Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1827-approximately 1918)
- Rancocas Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1776-1827)
Subject
Place
- Publisher
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- Rancocas Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1827-ca. 1918).
- Finding Aid Date
- 2003
- 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
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.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder (original and copy)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Membership register. Includes information on births, deaths, marriages, disownments, removals, etc. "Arranged in the 2d month 1805."
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (38 [i.e. 89] p.) ; 33 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
"Transferred from Book A. 12th month 1831." Includes index.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (p. 122-162 [i.e. 106p.]) ; 33 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Membership register contains: births (1761-1879); deaths (1805-1888); information on marriages, burials, etc. Includes pre-Separation births and deaths, 1761-1827. Partial copy of births laid in.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([5], [4] p.) ; 35 x 41 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Orthodox
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.
Minute book of the men's meeting, 1mo 30, 1799 to 12mo 2, 1830. Contains pre-Separation minutes, 1799-1827.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 549
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (131 p.) ; 21 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute book of the Hicksite men's meeting, 2mo 3, 1830 to 9mo 22, 1881.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 549.
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (342 p.) ; 21 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of joint sessions from 11mo 25, 1885 to 12mo 20, 1914. Volume also contains women's minutes (1882-1885); and membership list (1909) on final three unnumbered pages.
Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began on 11mo 25, 1885.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (ca. 280 p.) ; 22 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 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume (112 p.) in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume (38 p.) in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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 from 4mo 21, 1853 to 11mo 23, 1882.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 549
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (136 p.) ; 20 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 booklet (46 p.) in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 booklet (38 p.) in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 booklet (56 p.) in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume (24 p.) in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume (20 p.) in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes: subscription for quota (1826); receipts; reports; printed extracts from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting minutes (1830); answers to queries, school trustees reports, etc.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder (21 items) ; 36 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College