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Wilmington 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
A meeting for worship at Wilmington was established in Twelfth Month, 1737/1738 by Chester Quarterly Meeting under Kennett Monthly Meeting. A preparative meeting was established there by 1750. After the Separation of 1827-1828, there were two Wilmington Preparative Meetings. The Orthodox preparative meeting was discontinued in 1907. Regular sessions of the Hicksite preparative meeting were suspended in 1891.
Records of Wilmington Preparative Meeting, 1811-1891, include: pre-Separation rough minutes, 1812-1819; Hicksite minutes, 1857-1891; Orthodox minutes, 1831-1848; minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1870-1891; Orthodox women's minutes, 1883-1907; Hicksite financial records, 1811-1891; and minutes of the Society for the Relief of the Poor, 1813-1815.
Deposit
Organization
- Wilmington Preparative Meeting of Friends (approximately 1750-1827)
- Wilmington Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1907)
- Wilmington Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1891)
Subject
- 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 pre-Separation men's meeting, 1812-1814, 1814-1817, and 1817-1819. Transferred from the Ferris Family Papers in 2013.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
3 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting, 1857-1858/1867-1880 and 1880-1891.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume (74 p.) in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes of the women's meeting, 1870-1891.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume (60 p.) in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Financial records of collections for the meeting, 1822-1835.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Collection book listing contributions.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v. (in folder)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Assessments, Receipts, and Receipt Bills, 1865-1873, 1887-1889.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Book of check stubs, 1886-1891.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous receipts, some related to graveyard expenses in 1890 and 1891.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Miscellaneous receipts relating to the meeting house.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Treasurer's book, 1811-1868. Includes collection book-quota, 1811-1816.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Treasurer's book, 1868-1891. Includes Graveyard Account, 1875-1891.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minute book of Orthodox Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minute book of Orthodox Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minute book of Orthodox Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minute book of Orthodox Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minute book of Orthodox Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minute book of Orthodox Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes of the proceedings of the Society for the Relief of the Poor, 1813-1815.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 v.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College