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Woodbury 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 Woodbury was established before 1710 under Newton [Haddonfield] Monthly Meeting. A preparative meeting was established in 1717. The meetings became part of Woodbury Monthly Meeting in 1784. The Orthodox preparative meeting was discontinued in 1954. The Hicksite preparative meeting was consolidated with the reunited Woodbury Monthly Meeting in 1954.
Records of Woodbury Preparative Meeting, 1770-1954, include: Hicksite minutes, 1770-1920; Orthodox minutes, 1828-1954; Hicksite women's minutes, 1828-1893; Hicksite financial and legal records, 1840-1951; and a book list of the library.
Deposit
Organization
- Preparative Meeting of Friends held at Woodbury (1717-1827)
- Woodbury Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1954)
- Woodbury Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1954)
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
Minutes of Woodbury Preparative Meeting, 1770-1827. Minutes include the chain of title of the Friends' meeting house lot from 1687 to 1802. Folder also includes typescript copy.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 vol. index
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes of the Preparative Meeting. Volumes include: 1828-1863, 1864 1mo21- 1890 12mo25; 1891 1mo22-1920 10mo24, 1920-1941.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
4 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 (42 p.) in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 volume (317 p.) in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
Minutes of the women's preparative meeting, 1828-1893. Volumes include: 1828 1mo24-1839 2mo21; 1839 6mo24-1846 4mo23; 1846 5mo21-1855 7mo26; 1855 8mo23-1862 12no25; 1863 1mo23-1886 4mo22; 1886 5mo27-1893 7mo27.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
6 vols.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Account book of the preparative meeting, 1951. Includes preparative meeting fund, school fund, and the first day school fund.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 vol.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Treasurer's books, 1840-1951. Volumes include: 1840 5mo6-1900 3mo13; 1900 1mo3-1951 1mo31.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
2 vols.
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 folder
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 vol.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Accounts of the Relief Committee, 1904-1938. Includes relief of individuals as well as the Children's Home Society and other charities, domestic and international. Also includes minutes of the Board of Health of Woodbury, N.J., 1880.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 vol. ; 20 cm. or smaller
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Rules of the Library of the Woodbury Preparative Meeting of Friends, and alphabetical list of books in the library. Also includes a list of books checked out and returned by members of the meeting.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 vol.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Legal papers relating to the estate of Edwin A. Mankin, 1953, with some material dating to 1972.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections
1 volume in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Orthodox
Physical LocationHaverford College Quaker and Special Collections