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Richland 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
Richland Monthly Meeting was established in 1742 by Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting out of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting. Its opening session was held in 11mo, 1742/3. In 1786, Richland was transferred to Abington Quarterly Meeting. After the Hicksite Separation of 1827, Orthodox Friends were attached to Gwynedd Monthly Meeting. The Hicksite monthly meeting was the forerunner of the current Richland Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
Records of Richland Monthly Meeting, 1685-2016, include: minutes, 1743-2000 and 2007-2016; vital records, 1685-1986; women's minutes, 1743-1896; ministers and elders' minutes, 1748-1894; financial records, 1749-1829 and 1888-1993; epistles received, 1755-1817; minutes of the Richland Friends' School Committee, 1838-1916; as well as other kinds of miscellaneous papers.
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Organization
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- 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
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 555
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([17], 182 p.) ; 34 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Account of interments at Friends' burial ground in Richland, Pa., 1818- 1897. Record of Penrose family deaths, 1871 (numbered 48 for microfilming) laid in.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 556
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (47 p.) ; 21 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Placed in box with Miscellaneous papers, 1928-76.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 556
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (16 p.) ; 20 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Microfilmed to 1942.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 555
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (208 p.) ; 34 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
List of members; list of families; list of members at Williamsport.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 items (in folder) ; 38 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Membership register includes information on births, deaths, marriages, removals, etc. Accompanying folder contains loose membership papers and a membership list, 1827-1830 which includes Orthodox Friends, Friends at Stroudsburg, and members with their views not known.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 555
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (140 p.) ; 48 cm. + 20 items (in folder).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Placed in box with Miscellaneous papers, 1928-76.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Meeting's record of certificates of removal issued on behalf of members transferring to other meetings, 1791-1940. Volume also contains a record of removals received by the meeting, 1896-1940. Indexed to 1852.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 555 and 561.
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (183 p.) ; 33 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rough copy of extracts of Richland Monthly Meeting concerning the authority of the Meeting, 1743-1754. First section in shorthand.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ; 34 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of Richland Monthly Meeting, 1743-2000 and 2007-2009. Volume for 1743-1764 accompanied by a separate index. Minutes to 1963 also available in microfilm.
Joint sessions in which men and women meet together for business begin in 1896.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 557/558/559 and 560
- Haverford: No Film
16 v. + 11 folders (3.5 linear ft.).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on Microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore:No Film
- Haverford:No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on Microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore:No Film
- Haverford:No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on Microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore:No Film
- Haverford:No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Copies of the extracts of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, kept by Richland Monthly Meeting, 1761-1813. Also includes miscellaneous epistles of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ; 33 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Joint sessions with men begin in 1896.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 561/663
- Haverford: Microfilm 75A (1826-1896)
9 v. (2 linear ft.).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of the meeting of ministers and elders as follows: 1748-1762, 1764-1800, 1800-1843, 1843-1894.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
4 v. (1.5 linear ft.).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
A copy of the Act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania permitting the Trustees of Richland Monthly Meeting to sell a four acre tract in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, 1861.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 item (in folder).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Poor fund accounts, 1821-1829; subscription lists, 1749-1862; and miscellaneous financial papers, 1790-1823.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. + 12 items (1 linear ft.).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous financial records of Richland Monthly Meeting, 1888-1993. Volumes include: contributions, 1959-68 & 1984-89, monthly meeting fund (including the Alfred Moore & M.E. Green legacies), 1925-49, graveyard funds, 1908-57 & 1958-75, Moore & Green Legacies records, 1950-75, school funds, 1908-52 & 1958-75, treasurer's books, 1932-57, 1958-75, 1984-85, & 1985-86. Boxes include: records of Alfred Moore and Mary E. Green Legacies, 1925-49 & 1950-75, bequests, 1923-91, budget, 1984-85, contributions, 1936- 37/89-90, 1959-68, & 1984-89, correspondence, 1979-89, deposit records, 1983-90/92-93, graveyard fund, ca. 1920, 1908-57, & 1958-75, list of security box contents, 1929, school fund records, 1894-1908, 1908-52 & 1958 -75, treasurer's accounts (rough), 1990-92, 1909 & 1917, 1952-53/55-59, 1975-77, 1978-80, 1981-84, and Treasurer's books, 1932-57, 1958-75, 1984-85, 1985-86, & 1986-90.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
12 v. + 2 boxes ; 2 linear ft.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:H/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Treasurer's account books of Richland Monthly Meeting, 1965-73 & 1974-75.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
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Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:2 vols. ; 29 x 49 cm.
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Placed in box with Miscellaneous papers, 1928-76
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
A copy of the brief of title of the Richland meeting house and Foulke and Roberts family lots surrounding it, ca. 1885.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 item (in folder).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Petition to Bucks County Court of Quarter Sessions, 1840, asking that a road running through the meeting property be relocated to the property line.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 item (in folder).
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 v. ; 32.5 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous papers of Richland Monthly Meeting, 1768-1862 & n.d. Includes certificates of removal received, committee reports, queries, a receipt, membership census, and disownments.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
12 items (in folder).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Notes on the history of Richland Monthly Meeting (n.d.), an extract from the minutes concerning the appointment of Samuel Carey and Wilson Dennis to attend quarterly meeting (1855), and a copy of a letter from a member of the meeting concerning problems within the meeting and the apparent inattention of the Overseers in that matter (n.d.).
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
Miscellaneous records of Richland Monthly Meeting, 1934-79. Includes correspondence from Germany concerning CARE packages, 1949-1952, meeting attendance for the year of 1979, and other miscellaneous records.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 folders.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:H/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Description based on: Vol. 1, no. 4 (January 1960); title from caption.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
v. ; 36 cm.
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (ca. 200 p.) ; 33 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous papers of Richland Monthly Meeting, 1749-1862. Includes list of subscribers, 1749, toward addition to meeting house, 1791-92, toward a wall for the graveyard, 1825, toward erecting carriage and horse sheds, 1826, toward building a meeting house, 1861-62.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College