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Valley Monthly Meeting (Delaware Co., Pa.) 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
Valley Monthly Meeting was established in 1936 by Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite) out of Radnor Monthly Meeting's Valley Preparative. In 1955, Valley became a united monthly meeting when it reunited with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox). It was transferred to the newly-formed Haverford Quarterly Meeting that same year. Valley is currently an active monthly meeting in Wayne, Pa.
Records of Valley Monthly Meeting, from 1820s to present. Records include business minutes from 1936-2018 (including digital minutes); property records related to the land, meetinghouse, and burial ground, including the early 19th century site survey; some minimal membership information from the 1980s and 1990s, several member histories of the meeting, the Living Memory Project (a 2000s oral history video series), a partial run of its newsletter, and committee records primarily from the 1980s and 1990s (particularly Overseers records).
Some property records deposited by the Trustees in 2017 relate to the meetinghouse prior to its monthly meeting status, but most records of Valley Preparative Meeting are described separately.
Files are arranged in five series: Business Meeting; Property Records; Vital Records; Miscellaneous; and Committees (including Overseers and Worship and Ministry).
Bulk of collection deposited by Valley Friends Meeting.
Additional material donated by Anne and Tom Moore, 2009, and Jo Anne Barnes, 2022.
Organization
- Valley Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Delaware County, Pa.)
- Valley Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1810-1827)
- Valley Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1827-1939)
Subject
Place
- 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. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.
- 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-Ph 629
4 folders
Material Specific DetailsHicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 628 (1955-1972)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 630 (1973)
4 folders
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 630
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
8 folders
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
(3) digital files (PDF)
Material Specific DetailsUnited
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsHicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Copies vary slightly; one in sepia.
Physical Description1 chart : blueprint ; 60 x 84 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Hand drawn site plan of meetinghouse lot, some staining at creases.
Physical Description1 folder, 32 x 38cm.
Material Specific DetailsHicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes four manuscript indentures: 1809 Jonathan Roberts Sr. and Joseph Walker to Jonathan Cleaver and Jonathan Roberts Jr; 1822 from Isaac Walker; 1852 from Joseph Walker to Harvard Walker et al.; and 1852 from the Trustees of Valley Preparative Meeting to Joseph Walker.
Physical Description1 oversize folder
Material Specific DetailsPre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Manuscript site plan for lot surveyed by Henry Woodman re the 1822 indenture of the property to Trustees of Valley Preparative
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsPre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Deed from Joseph Walker to the Trustees of Valley Preparative
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsHicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
2 reproductions of marriage certificates (reduced)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous papers relating to the history of Valley Friends Meeting, 1931-1984. Includes two items written by Virginia Walker and Ivins C. Walker in 1931 at the time of the 200th anniversary, and a letter from Marian Walker in 1984
Physical Description3 items (in folder).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
2 folders
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
The Living Memory Project was an oral history of Valley Monthly Meeting members conducted by then-member Jo Anne Barnes in 2002. DVDs have been retained, but access to oral histories is via digitized files.
Physical Description10 DVDs, 1 photograph, and 10 mp4 files
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes from 3mo 4, 1940 to 3mo 28, 1954.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 629
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College