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Warminster Preparative Meeting 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
An indulged meeting for worship at Warminster was established by Horsham Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) in 1840 at the request of members of Horsham meeting. Warminster Preparative Meeting was established in 1841 by Abington Quarterly Meeting. The preparative meeting was discontinued in 1953; the meeting for worship was discontinued about 1962.
Records of the Hicksite Warminster Preparative Meeting, 1841-1953, as follows: minutes, 1841-1953; women's minutes, 1841-1881; account books, 1841-1953; women's account book, 1841-1883; property records, 1840, 1858; miscellaneous papers, 1895-1953.
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- 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
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.
Minutes of the men's meeting and joint sessions as follows: 1841-1874, 1874 -1898, 1899-1930, 1930-1953.
Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began in 1881.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
4 v. ; 37 cm. or smaller.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Joint sessions with men began in 1881.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (132 p.) ; 26 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Accompanied by: receipts and other pertinent papers
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (23 p.) (in folder) ; 26 cm
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Treasurer's books, 1841-1898 and 1899-1953.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 v. ; 27 cm. or smaller.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Declaration of trust, 1840, and deeds, 1840 & 1858, to meeting's property. Includes the following: Declaration of trust: Seth Davis and others to Thomas Parry and others 12mo3 1840 (received 9/17/1858); Deed, Thomas Parry and wife to Seth Davis and others for one acre of land in Warminster Township, Bucks County, 12mo3 1840 (received 12/30/1941); Deed: Emmos K. Gourley and Jona Beans to Comly Hampton ... [et. al.] in trust, 6mo14 1858.
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Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 items (in oversize folder) ; 38 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Chiefly papers concerning custody of meeting's records and property.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
9 items (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College