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Upper Dublin Preparative 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.

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An indulged meeting at Upper Dublin was established by Horsham Monthly Meeting in 1814. A meeting for worship and preparative meeting were established under Horsham Monthly Meeting by Abington Quarterly Meeting in 1815. The opening business session was held in 1816. The Orthodox preparative meeting was discontinued in 1827, and its members were attached to Horsham Preparative Meeting. Upper Dublin Preparative Meeting (Hicksite)formed at the time of the Separation was transferred to Upper Dublin Monthly Meeting in 1941. The preparative meeting continued as a committee of the United monthly meeting after 1941.

Records of Upper Dublin Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its predecessor, the pre-Separation meeting, 1816-1940, as follows: women's meeting minutes, 1816-1885; book of discipline belonging to the women's meeting, 1806-1829; burial chart, 1818-1929; plan of meetinghouse and burial ground, 1934.

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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

RG2/Ph/U62 3.1. A Record of Burials in the Grave Yard of the Upper Dublin Meeting of Friends, 1817-1913.
Scope and Contents

Record of burials in the Upper Dublin burial ground, 1817-1913. Burials to 1909 include location.

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. ; 24.5 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/U62 1.1-1.5. Minutes, 1816-1940/1987-1999.
Scope and Contents

Minute books of the men's meeting and joint sessions as follows: 1816-1842, 1842-1881, 1881-1907, 1907-1940, 1987-1999. Volume for 1816-42 contains pre-Separation men's minutes, 1816-1842.

General

Joint Sessions in which men and women meet together for business began on 10mo21, 1885.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 613 (1816-1940)
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

5 volumes

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/H/United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/U62 2.1-2.2. Minutes, 1816-1885.
Scope and Contents

Minute books of the preparative meeting of women Friends. Volume 1816-1865 contains pre-Separation women's minutes 1816-1829 and includes minutes of Horsham Monthly Meeting relating to the preparative meeting's establishment.

General

Joint sessions began on 10mo21, 1885.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

  1. Swarthmore: MR -Ph 613
  2. Haverford: No Film
Physical Description

2 v. ; 32 cm. or smaller.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Chart Case U 4.1. Burial ground, Seventh month 1929, 1818-1929.
Scope and Contents

Burial ground of Upper Dublin Preparative Meeting of Friends: Upper Dublin Township: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

1 chart ; 83 x 131 cm. folded to 83 x 66 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Chart Case U 4.2. Plan of meeting house and burial grounds, 1934.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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

1 plan: blueprint ; 44x46 cm. 44x46 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/Ph/U62 5.1. Discipline, 1806-1829.
Scope and Contents

Rules of discipline of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, printed 1806; annotated to 1829.

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. (127, [16] p.) ; 22 cm.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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