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Robeson Monthly Meeting Records

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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

Robeson Monthly Meeting was established in 1789 by Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting.

Two meetings emerged after the Hicksite Separation of 1827. Robeson Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) was discontinued in 1841. Robeson Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1872, and its members were attached to Bradford Monthly Meeting.

Records of Robeson Monthly Meeting, pre-Separation, Orthodox, and Hicksite. Records of the pre-Separation meeting include: men's meeting minutes, 1789-1812; rough or clerk's copies of minutes, 1789-1826; minutes of the meeting of ministers and elders, 1798-1819. Records of the Hicksite meeting include: Rough minutes of the men's meeting 1826-1839, and miscellaneous papers, 1799-1837, & n.d. Records of the Orthodox meeting include: minutes of the men's meeting, 1812-1862; women's meeting minutes, 1789-1837; removals issued, 1790-1870; ministers and elders' minutes, 1820-1834; miscellaneous papers, 1825-1840.

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Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Date
2011
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

HC.PhM.R630.01.001 (1250/U5.17). Births and Deaths (1744-1872), and Marriage Certificates (1791-1864), 1744-1872.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph563
  2. Haverford: Microfilm 49
Physical Description

1 volume, has index in box R-16

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation/Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

RG2/Ph/R63 3.1. Removals issued, 1790-1870.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 547
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

1 v. (70 p.)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation/Orthodox

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/R61 1.1. Minutes, 1789-1812.
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting from 1789 7mo 28 to 1812 8mo 7. Preceded by minutes of Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting pertaining to the meeting's establishment.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph563
  2. Haverford: Microfilm 49
Physical Description

1 v. (280 p.). + Index (7 typed sheets (in folder)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/R63 1.1. Minutes, 1812-1862.
Scope and Contents

Minute book belonging to the Orthodox men's meeting, 1812 9mo 11 to 1862 2mo 7. Volume contains minutes of the pre-Separation meeting, 1812-1827. Accompanied by: Index (7 typed sheets in folder ; 36 cm.).

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph563
  2. Haverford: Microfilm 49
Physical Description

1 v. (260 p.)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation/Orthodox

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

HC.PhM.R630.02.001 (1250/U5.14). Minutes, 1827-1866.
Box R-16
Physical Description

volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.R630.02.002 (1250/U5.20). Minutes, 1835-1903.
Physical Description

1 volume [On search 1/2021]

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.R630.02.003 (1250/U5.13). Minutes, 1862-1872.
Box R-16
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph563
  2. Haverford: Microfilm 49
Physical Description

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

RG2/Ph/R61 1.2-1.8. Minutes [rough], 1789-1826.
Scope and Contents

Rough or clerk's copies of minutes of the pre-Separation meeting. Included are the following minute books: 1789-1793, 1798-1800, 1800-1805, 1805-1808, 1817-1821, 1821-1823, 1824-1826.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

7 v. (1 linear ft.)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/R62 1.1-1.3. Minutes [rough], 1826-1836.
Scope and Contents

Rough or clerk's copies of minutes as follows: 1826-1831, 1831-1833, 1833- 1834, 1833-1836.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

4 v.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/R62 1.4. Minutes [rough], 1830-1839.
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. (in folder)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/R63 2.1. Minutes, 1789-1837.
Scope and Contents

Minute book of the Orthodox women's meeting, 1789 7mo 28 to 1837 4mo 7. Volume contains pre-Separation women's minutes, 1789-1827.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph563
  2. Haverford: Microfilm 49
Physical Description

1 v. (277 p.)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation/Orthodox

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

HC.PhM.R630.03.001 (1250/U5.16). Minutes, 1827-1861.
Box R-16
Physical Description

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

HC.PhM.R630.03.002 (1250/U5.15). Minutes, 1837-1872.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph563
  2. Haverford: Microfilm 49
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Orthodox

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

RG2/Ph/R61 2.1. Minutes, 1798-1819.
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders from 1798 7mo 23 to 1819 11mo 14, preceded by queries.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph692
  2. Haverford: Microfilm 32*
Physical Description

1 v. ([60] p.)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/R63 4.1. Minutes, 1820-1834.
Scope and Contents

Minutes from 5mo 10, 1820 to 11mo 7, 1834. Contains minutes of the pre- Separation meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1820-1827.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph692
  2. Haverford: Microfilm 32*
Physical Description

1 v. (ca 60 p.)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation/Orthodox

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

HC.PhM.R630.04.001 (1250/U5.18). Minutes, 1835-1847.
Box R-16
Physical Description

1 volume in folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

RG2/Ph/R62 2.1. Miscellaneous papers, 1799-1837 & n.d.
Scope and Contents

Removal certificate from Radnor Monthly Meeting for Thomas and Martha Lewis and their children, 5mo 9, 1799; acknowledgment from John George, 6mo 8, 1804; answers to queries, 1832, 1833, 1837; answers to queries concerning schools, n.d. Also included are: minute regarding preparation of certificate of removal to New Garden Monthly Meeting for Elizabeth M. James, 1833 (with answers to queries, 1833); Caln Quarterly Meeting quota, 2mo 14, 1833; denial of parental consent to a marriage [ca. 1827].

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

9 items (in envelope)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/R63 5.1. Miscellaneous papers, 1825-1840.
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous papers of Robeson Monthly Meeting, 1825-1840. Includes a marriage consent, 1836, a disownment, 1825, answers to queries on schools, n.d., and rough minutes, 1836-40.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

6 items (in folder)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation:Pre-Separation/Orthodox

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

HC.PhM.R630.05.001 (1250/U5.19). Extracts from the Disciplines and Advice and loose papers.
Physical Description

1 volume, 1 folder

Physical Location

Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

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