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Southern Quarterly and Half-Yearly Meetings 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
By 1679, two quarterly meetings had been established for Friends in Maryland, one for each of the eastern and western shores. The Quarterly Meeting for the Eastern Shore was under Baltimore Yearly Meeting until its meetings were joined to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Southern Quarterly Meeting was established in 1789 by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. It included the meetings in Delaware and those on the Eastern Shore of Maryland which had previously been part of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. The first business sessions of this quarter were held in 1790.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) discontinued Southern Quarterly Meeting in 1828. Southern Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite) became Southern Half-Yearly Meeting in 1905. In 1987 this meeting began to meet again on a quarterly basis. It is currently active.
Records of the Southern Quarterly and Southern Half-Yearly Meetings and of the Quarterly Meeting on the Eastern Shore, 1756-1994, include: Orthodox vital records, 1832-1871; Hicksite/United minute books, 1759-2010; Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1756-1816; Hicksite financial papers, 1793-1860; extracts from Hicksite minutes, 1784; miscellaneous Hicksite correspondence, 1970.
Deposit
Organization
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Southern Half-Yearly Meeting of Friends
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Quarterly Meeting on the Eastern Shore
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Southern Quarterly Meeting
Subject
- 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-Ph142
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume, has folder in S-1
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes of Southern Quarterly Meeting and its predecessor, the Quarterly Meeting on the Eastern Shore, 1759-1822. Also included are the minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of Ministers & Elders, 1759-1763.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph593
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of Southern Quarterly Meeting and its predecessor, the Quarterly Meeting on the Eastern Shore, 1759-1822. Also included are the minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of Ministers & Elders, 1759-1763.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 592
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Minutes of Southern Quarterly Meeting and its predecessor, Southern Half- Yearly Meeting (Hicksite), 1875-1970 & 1971-94.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 594 (1875-1970)
- Haverford: No Film
2 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/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of Women Friends on the Eastern Shore, 1705-1746, are recorded in the volume of Third Haven Monthly Meeting's women's minutes, 1705-1760. They are available at SW on microfilm, MR-B.
Minutes of Southern Quarterly Meeting of Women Friends and its predecessor, the Quarterly Meeting of Women Friends on the Eastern Shore, 1756-1818.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph593
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph606
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of Ministers & Elders, 1759-1763, are recorded in the same book with the minutes of Southern Quarterly Meeting and its predecessor, the Quarterly Meeting on the Eastern Shore, 1759-1822.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph358 (1755-1833)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph592 (1834-1880)
- Haverford: No Film
Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
Affiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Receipts for payment of the Yearly Meeting quota and miscellaneous financial papers, 1793-1799.
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
Rough draft of letter to the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and a reply from Nicholas Ruggieri, Public Information Officer.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Correspondence concerning the establishment of a volunteer program at the new prison in Smyrna, Delaware. Also includes a photocopy of an article about a program in Patuxent Institution.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 items (in 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 DetailsUnited