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Stroudsburg 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
Stroudsburg Monthly Meeting was established in 1815 out of Richland Monthly Meeting by Abington Quarterly Meeting. The Orthodox monthly meeting was discontinued in 1839; its members were transferred to Abington Monthly Meeting. The Hicksite monthly meeting was discontinued in 1827; its members were transferred to Richland Monthly Meeting.
Records of Stroudsburg Monthly Meeting, 1758-1839, include: vital records, 1758-1839; men's minutes, 1815-1839; women's minutes, 1815-1839; Ministers and Elders' minutes, 1815-1839.
Deposit
Organization
- Stroudsburg Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1839)
- Stroudsburg Monthly Meeting of Friends (1815-1827)
Subject
- Publisher
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- Stroudsburg Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1839).
- 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
At the time of the Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1827-28, pre-Separation vital records were generally retained by the branch with which the recorder was affiliated. Researchers are advised to consider vital records which span this period carefully: in many cases, the meeting without the original records may have reconstructed these records for its membership only, giving the impression that individuals in the other branch were never members.
Register of births belonging to the Orthodox monthly meeting, 1758-1839. Volume also contains a record of deaths, 1809-1837 entered beginning in back of volume in opposite direction to births.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 584 (600)
- Haverford: Film 120
1 v. (13,1, [5] p.) ; 21 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Meeting's copies of marriage certificates, 1818, 1826, 1834, 1838. Volume contains certificates for pre-Separation and Orthodox marriages.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 584 (600)
- Haverford: Film 120
1 v. (15 p.) ; 22 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
List of members of Stroudsburg Meeting, 1829 12mo13. Includes Orthodox Friends.
Shelved with RG 5, Foulke, Ser. 7, Box.6 , Stroudsburg Meeting papers, 1829- 1869.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 item (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Record of Certificates of removal issued, 1816-1828 and 28 loose certificates (in folder), 1816-1838. Folder also includes one certificate of removal received, 1818.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 584 (600)
- Haverford: Film 120
1 v. (47 p.) ; 21 cm. + 28 items (in folder).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
*This item MISSING as of 7/21/2005
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 584 (600)
- Haverford: Film 120
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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.
Minute book of the men's meeting, 1815 9mo21-1839 8mo22. Volume contains pre-Separation and Orthodox meeting minutes. Extracts from the proceedings of Abington Quarterly Meeting discontinuing Stroudsburg Monthly Meeting copied at the beginning of the volume on pages numbered 1-2.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 579 (600).
- Haverford: Film 119
1 v. (470 p.) ; 21 cm + Index.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the women's meeting, 1815 9mo21-1839 8mo22. Volume contains pre- Separation and Orthodox women's minutes.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 600
- Haverford: Film 120
1 v. (315 p.) ; 21 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Committee which had care of the spiritual welfare of the meeting, particularly the meeting for worship. Ministry and Counsel committees were established in 1918 by Hicksite meetings, which no longer designated members as ministers or elders. The predecessor of Ministry and Counsel was the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders.
Ministers and elders' minutes from 10mo25, 1815 to 7mo24, 1839. Volume contains pre-Separation and Orthodox minutes.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. ([70] p.) ; 21 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College