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Valley Preparative Meeting Records
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Overview and metadata sections
Valley Preparative Meeting was established in 1810. The Orthodox preparative meeting was discontinued shortly after the Separation of 1827. Valley Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) was transferred to Valley Monthly Meeting in 1936. It was discontinued in 1939.
Records of Valley Preparative Meeting, 1760-1939, as follows: minutes of the men's pre-Separation and Hicksite meeting and joint sessions, 1810-1939; women's pre-Separation and Hicksite meeting minutes, 1814-1896; graveyard accounts, 1800-1887; list of marriages and marriage acknowledgments, 1760-1805; First Day School report, 1905; Hicksite clerk's correspondence, 1930-1936.
Deposit
Organization
- 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.
- 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.
In folder with: First Day School report (4mo 28, 1902).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 item in folder ; 37 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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 books of the men's meeting and joint sessions as follows: 1810-1872, 1872-1911, 1911-1929, 1930-1939.
Joint sessions with women begin in 1883.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 631
- Haverford: No Film
4 v. ; 30 cm. or smaller.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute books of the Women's Meeting as follows: 1814-1828, 1842-1862, 1862- 1879, 1879-1896. Volume 1814-1828 contains pre-Separation minutes, 1814- 1827; volume 1879-1896 also contains minutes of joint sessions.
Joint sessions begin in 1883; women Friends kept a separate record of minutes until 1mo 2d, 1896
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 631
- Haverford: No Film
4 v. ; 22 cm. or smaller
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 box (ca. 300 items) (1 linear feet).
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes: Burials (King of Prussia, Pa.), 1812. Folder also contains: fire insurance receipt, 1879.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (in folder) ; 18 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College