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Salem 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
Salem Monthly Meeting was established in 1676. It became part of Salem Quarterly Meeting in 1682. In 1827, after the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. In 1955, after the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings reunited, there remained two Salem Monthly Meetings. Salem Monthly Meeting at Woodstown, the former Orthodox meeting, was discontinued in 1977. Salem Monthly Meeting at Salem, the former Hicksite meeting, is currently an active monthly meeting.
Records of Salem Monthly Meeting, 1675-2015, including Pre-Separation, Hicksite, Orthodox, and both Salem (United) and Salem at Woodstown (United). Files include: men's and joint meeting minutes, vital records, women's minutes, Ministers and Elders' minutes, manuscript copies of men's minutes, miscellaneous papers, property records, treasurer's reports, and newsletters. Some minutes and finanical records are digital; files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.
Deposit
Organization
- Salem Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1676-1827)
- Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends (1827- : Salem, N.J.)
- Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends (1827-1977 : Woodstown, N.J.)
Subject
Place
- Publisher
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- 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
Additional 18th-century records of members were deposited by Salem Quarterly Meeting in 1964 and are described in that collection (QM-Ph-S270).
Acknowledgments as follows: 1704-1811 and n.d.; 1837-1897 and n.d. Includes photocopies of original material at Salem County Historical Society.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
69 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Register of births and deaths of the Orthodox monthly meeting. Contains pre -Separation births and deaths, 1721-1827. "Names in alphabetical order throughout the book, at considerable intervals between the letters."
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph547
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (76 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes 2 disownments photocopied from original material at Salem County Historical Society. Also includes an additional folder of photocopies of disownments, 1810-1815.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
143 items (in 2 folders) + 1 folder.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Disownments from Salem Monthly Meeting (O). Includes disownments for joining Hicksites or other religious societies (1828, 1829-1839, 1840-1895 & n.d.), disownments for MOU (1828-1890), and other disownments (1829-1869).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 box (313 items in 5 folders)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Loose copies of marriage certificates as follows: 1704, 1705, 1767, 1787, 1788, 1828.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
5 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1712 letter is a photocopy of a very fragile original and its accompanying typed transcription.
In box with Misc. papers, 1703-1897.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
6 items in folder.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Meeting's copies of marriage certificates, 1724-1899. Register contains pre -Separation certificates, 1724-1827.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph547
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (415, [1] p.) + Index (55 typed sheets in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph571 (1827-1946)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph577 (1948-58)
- Haverford: Film 14B
Affiliation: Hicksite/United
Photocopy available; foldered separately. In box with Misc. papers, 1703-1897.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([37] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
In box with Misc. Papers, 1703-1897.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
5 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 oversize volume (145 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph571
- Haverford: Film 14B
Affiliation: Hicksite
Memorials for Elizabeth Wyatt and Sarah Wistar.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (7 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Register contains the following: Births and deaths, 1686-1798; removals received, 1675-1685. Includes index.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph547
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (123, [1] p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Meeting's copies of marriage certificates (1682-1699); record of deaths (1697-1702).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 570
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (14 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Certificates of removal A-J and K-Z received by the pre-Separation and Orthodox meetings. Includes some photocopies of original certificates in the Salem County Historical Society.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 boxes (576 items in 20 folders)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Certificates issued for members transferring to other meetings. Includes photocopies of original removals at Salem County Historical Society.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 box (295 items in 3 folders)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph577
- Haverford: No Film
Minute books of the pre-Separation men's meeting as follows: 1676-1696, 1696-1740, 1740-1788, 1788-1807, 1807-1827. Each volume is accompanied by a separate index.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph572 (1676-96, 1696-1740)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph572-3 (1740-88))
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph573 (1788-1807, 1807-27)
- Haverford: Film 14 (1676-1788)
- Haverford: Film 14A (1740-1827)
5 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Orthodox meeting's copies of pre-Separation minutes, 1676-1744,index 1676- 1744, 1744-1777, 1777-1804 including Births and Deaths 1623-1798 and Removals Received 1675-1685.
MR-Ph 574
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph574
- Haverford: Film 174 (1676-1777)
3 v. (p. 1-1396)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rough copies of minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting as follows: 1795-1801, 1802-1805, 1805-1809, 1809-1812, 1812-1815.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
5 v. ; 33 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Manuscript copy of minutes (1804-1828) belonging to the Orthodox monthly meeting. Volume also includes: copy of removals received, 1675-1685 (p. 1698-1708) and copy of births and deaths, 1623-1798 (p. 1708-1778).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (p. 1397-1778)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of the United Meeting at Salem, as follows: 1827-1863, 1863-1900, 1900-1920, 1920-1937, 1937- 1950, 1950-1967.
Joint sessions in which men and women meet together for business begin in 1901.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 571 (1827-63)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph575 (1863-1900, 1900-20)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 575/6 (1920-36)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph576 (1937-50, 1951-67)
- Haverford: Film 14B (1827-1863)
6 v. (3 linear feet)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 573
- Haverford: Film 14A
1 volume (449 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 576
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume (573 p.) with index in box R-17
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 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 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 volume (17 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes of the United Meeting at Woodstown.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume (137 p.) in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox/United
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes of the United Meeting at Woodstown.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder (5 items) [On search 1/2021]
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes of the United Meeting at Salem, 1967-78 and 1979-81.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph578
- Haverford: No Film
Affiliation: United
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.
Physical Description24 PDF files
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 1682-1763 and 1763- 1792.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph579
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute book of the Orthodox women's meeting, 1792-1835. Contains pre-Separation women's minutes, 1792-1827.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph579
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (461 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph576 (1828-31, 1832-36)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph576/7 (1836-55)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph577 (1856-95, 1895-1901)
- Haverford: No Film
5 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph579
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Meeting of Ministers and Elders minute books as follows: 1718-1760 and 1782-1796. Volumes imperfect, covers wanting, pages foxed.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume (41 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 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 folder (12 items)
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 volume (33 p.) in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
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: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume (95 p.)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
(1) digital file (PDF)
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Summary of title search on 107 W. Broadway, Salem, N.J. (formerly Orthodox Friends Meeting House), prepared in 1941. Folder also contains copy of minute concerning burial ground, 1915. Photocopy.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 item (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous financial and property records: Deed, Samuel Nicholson et.ux. to Edward Bradway, George Deacon, et.al. [16 acres of land in (New) Salem (N.J.)], June 6, 1680; Agreement, Establishment of Friends Free School in Salem, 1783 5mo24.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder [oversized]
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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 (29 p.) in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes and related documents of the Relief Committee, 1926-1972.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Printed petition, signed by Quaker inhabitants of Salem.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Negative photostats of papers of the pre-Separation meeting were not retained, checklist is present listing: Acknowledgment (anonymous), n.d.; certificate of removal on account of marriage: Hugh Clifton, 1722 5mo 9; travelling minute: James Daniel, 1755 8mo 5; travelling minute: James Da[---?], 1762 8mo 9; Disownment: Sarah Nevill [?] formerly Goodwin), 1749 4mo 26; marriage certificates: James Daniell and Jane Patten, 1700 Oct. 2 and Mark Bradway and Elizabeth Hartley, 1786 11mo 1; paper attesting that Amos Bell is a free Black man, 1808 10mo 12; Wm. and Mary Ponton or Penton's consent for Joseph Thompson to marry their daughter, 1715 9mo 26; returning minute concerning Mark Reeve's satisfactory ministry in Rhode Island, 1771 10mo 10; picture of old meeting house at Chester, Pa. with Wm. Penn's message of 1681 8mo 18 below; extracts from minutes of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1793; printed extract from minutes of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Indian Committee, 1800 9mo 18. Checklist in folder.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Chiefly travelling certificates, 1732-1847 and extracts from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting minutes, 1704-1797 and n.d. Also included are: printed extracts from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting minutes, 1801-1839; deeds and other property papers, 1730-1850; receipts and other financial papers, 1772 -1854; miscellaneous correspondence, 1741-1929 and n.d.; receipts for goods taken for militia tax, 1794-1800; school fund reports, 1821-1854 and n.d.; miscellaneous committee reports, 1840-1882; will of John Denn, 1685; partnership paper (Darkin et al), 1691; bond: Grainger to Hall, 1722, etc.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 box (380 foldered items)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
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
Newsletter of Salem Friends Meeting, 1956-60 and 2002-04. Salem Oak Leaves preceeded by Oak Leaves; newsletter description based on January 1956 issue, title from caption.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
28-35 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College