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Sadsbury 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

Sadsbury Preparative Meeting was established by New Garden Monthly Meeting in 1725. In 1737, the meeting became part of Sadsbury Monthly Meeting. At the time of the Hicksite Separation, which in this meeting occurred in 1830, two preparative meetings were formed. In the following year, the Orthodox preparative meeting moved to Simmonstown. It returned to Christiana in 1881 and was discontinued in 1919. Sadsbury Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) was discontinued in 1925. At that time, Sadsbury Monthly Meeting assumed all its business

Records include: Hicksite men's minutes, 1828-1925, and records related to trusteeship and property of Sadsbury PM 1894-1932 donated by Sadsbury Monthly Meeting.

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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

Biographical / Historical

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.

RG2/Ph/S22 1.1-1.7. Minutes, 1828-1925.
Scope and Contents

Minute books of the Hicksite preparative meeting as follows: 1828-1832, 1833-1839, 1839-1846, 1846-1850, 1864-1890, 1891-1916, 1917-1925. Volume for 1828-1832 contains pre-Separation minutes, 1828-1830.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: 1828-1850 and 1891-1925: MR-Ph 569
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

7 v. (1.5 linear feet)

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/S22 2.1. Property and trustee records, 1894-1932.
Scope and Contents

Deposited by Elizabeth C. Brinton, Clerk of Sadsbury Monthly Meeting, in 1932 but related to Sadsbury Preparative Meeting properties and finances.

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