Friends Historical Library collection of certificates of removal
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[Indicate the cited item here], MSS/054, Removals Collection, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Date:
1685-1850 (inclusive)
Abstract:
A certificate of removal is a document given to persons who are transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testifies that they are members in good standing with the meeting they are leaving. This collection consists of miscellaneous certificates of removal, from various meetings and regarding various Friends, collected by the Friends Historical Library over time. It contains a mix of original documents and copies.
Certificates are filed in chronological order.
Originally a series in MSS 054 Miscellaneous Meeting Papers, the certificates of removal were removed into their own collection when Miscellaneous Meeting Papers was reprocessed in 2018.
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Collection Inventory
Blank sample of form, undated.
Wells, Hughes from ? to Green Street Monthly Meeting, undated.
Harrison, James & Pemberton, Phineas from Hardshaw Monthly Meeting to Pennsylvania, 1682 5mo 18.
Scope and Contents
copy
Penn, William from Horsham Monthly Meeting to Church of Christ in Pennsylvania, 1699 5mo 14.
Scope and Contents
copy
Wickersham, Thom. from Horsham Monthly Meeting to Pennsylvania, 1700 7mo 11.
Watson, Thomas, wife & children, from Pardshaw Crag [England] to Pennsylvania, 1701 7mo 23.
Scope and Contents
photocopy
Penn, Letitia from Philadelphia Meeting to London, Brisol or elsewhere, 1701 7mo 27.
Scope and Contents
facsimile
Hillborn, Thomas from Falmouth Monthly Meeting to Pennsylvania, 1702 4mo.
Scope and Contents
blueprint
Steell, James, certificate of removal from Steyming in Sussex, England., 1702 5mo 6.
Marshall, Abraham from Darby Monthly Meeting to Newark Monthly Meeting, 1707 4mo 4.
Scope and Contents
blueprint
Leedham, Richard from Monthly Meeting held at York to Philadelphia..., 1712 2mo 4.
Scope and Contents
2 copies, 1 photostat [positive], 1 blueprint
Worsley, Sarah from Women's Monthly Meeting held at Providence to - Women's Monthly Meeting at Newark, 1716 5mo 30.
Scope and Contents
blueprint
Thornbrough, Edward from Lurgan Men's Meeting (Ireland) to America, 1717 3mo 1.
Hillbourn, Ann from Falls Monthly Meeting to Buckingham Monthly Meeting, 1727 11 mo 3.
Hannums, John from Monthly Meeting held at Concord to N.Y. Monthly Meeting, 1730 7mo 3.
Scope and Contents
blueprint
Purdey, William from Mens Monthly Meeting held in BelInucree to Pennsylvania, 1737 2mo 23.
Scope and Contents
blueprint
Welton, William from Philadelphia Monthly Meeting to Newark Monthly Meeting in New Castle County, [Newark, New Castle County, Del], 1738 12mo 23.
Fayle, Samuel & Joshua from Monthly Meeting held in Edenderry to Men's Meeting at Philadelphia, 1742/43 1mo 16.
Scope and Contents
blueprint
Wilson, Rebekah [sic] from Wrightstown Monthly Meeting to Fairfax (Va.) Monthly Meeting, 1747 3mo 5.
Hilles, Hugh & Ann from Gwynedd Monthly Meeting to Richland Monthly Meeting, 1748 9mo 29.
Thomson, Ann from Women's Meeting of Maryland, held at West River to Fairfax (Va.) Monthly Meeting, 1755 5mo 6.
Massey, Sarah from Abington Monthly Meeting to Nottingham Monthly Meeting, 1756 2mo 23.
Williams, Isaac from Treadhaven to East Nottingham, 1757 3mo 28.
Hollingsworth, Shusannah [sic], wife of Elias, & children: Aquila, Marey [sic], Benjamin & Naomi, from Kennett Monthly Meeting to Fairfax Monthly Meeting, 1763 11mo 17.
Webb, Mary from Philadelphia Monthly Meeting to Warrington Monthly Meeting, 1768 11mo 25.
Hoopes, Elizabeth from Goshen Monthly Meeting to Darby Monthly Meeting, 1770.
Oxley, Joseph from Quarterly Meeting held in N.Y. to Pemberton, Wm., 1771(?) 11mo 26.
Scope and Contents
fragment
Nottingham, Samuel & Mary from Monthly Meeting held in N.Y. to Bristol Monthly Meeting or elsewhere in England, 1779 9mo 1.
Scope and Contents
typed copy
Russel, Mary from Buckingham Monthly Meeting to Fairfax (Va.) Monthly Meeting, 1781 3mo 9.
Stabler, Ann & Mary from Monthly Meeting "held at Burleigh in Prince George County to Monthly Meeting in Loudon County", 1781 5mo 17.
Simpson, Benjamin from Abington Monthly Meeting, 1781 9mo 17.
Scope and Contents
blueprint
Randal, Rebekah [sic] from Uwchlan Monthly Meeting to Fairfax Monthly Meeting, 1783 4mo 10.
Shreeve, Caleb from Upper Evesham Monthly Meeting to Baltimore Monthly Meeting (concerning his not having requested one), 1804 5mo 28.
Masline, Thomas from Cecil Monthly Meeting to Baltimore Monthly Meeting, 1805 2mo 16.
Hough, Wm. & Mary & grandson John from Deep Creek Monthly Meeting, Surry County N.C. to Whitewater Monthly Meeting, Indiana Terr., 1814 4mo 2.
Hicks, Edward from Middletown Monthly Meeting to Wrightstown Monthly Meeting, 1814 10mo 6.
Scope and Contents
xerox
Cooper, Thomas from Muncy Monthly Meeting to Whitewater Monthly Meeting, Indiana Territory, 1816 9mo 18.
Walker, Sarah M. & Priscilla from Radnor Monthly Meeting to Stroudsburg Monthly Meeting, 1820 4mo 13.
Wilson, Oliver from Buckingham Monthly Meeting to Stroudsburg Monthly Meeting, 1820 9mo 4.
Lewis, Josiah from Green Street Monthly Meeting to Robeson Monthly Meeting, 1831 1mo 20.
Livezey, Joseph B. from Gwynedd Monthly Meeting to Woodbury Monthly Meeting, 1850 11mo 28.