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Yardley Monthly 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
Yardley Monthly Meeting was established in 1955 by Bucks Quarterly Meeting out of Makefield Monthly Meeting. This is currently an active monthly meeting.
Records of Yardley Monthly Meeting, 1955-ongoing, follows: minutes, 1955-1961, 1961-1970, and 1970-1976, and newsletter. Digital scans of printed paper minutes from 1993-1996 and 1998-2012. Minutes 2013-2024 are born-digital (searchable) pdf files compiled by the meeting as one combined file per year.
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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
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.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-Ph 628
- Haverford: No Film
3 v.; 29 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
19 digitized PDFs - scanned from paper originals not stewarded by FHL
Born-digital PDF/A files are combined meeting for business records, one file per year. The annual combined file includes monthly meeting for business minutes (including reports from committees to the monthly meeting) and any called meetings, plus sometimes related meeting records like committee lists or budget reports.
Physical Description11 PDF/A files
1 PDF file
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Description based on: January, 1954; title from caption.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No Film
- Haverford: No Film
v. ; 28-36 cm.
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Corrected draft of a minute from Yardley Meeting, likely designed for broader circulation across the Yearly Meeting.
Physical Description1 folder