Friends Historical Library collection of disownments
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[Indicate the cited item here], MSS/055, Disownments Collection, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Date:
1770-1890 (inclusive)
Abstract:
A disownment is the involuntary termination of membership in a meeting, when a member of a meeting acts contrary to established discipline. Reasons for disownment have changed over time, often reflecting contemporary societal mores. Today, very few people are disowned. This collection consists of miscellaneous minutes of disownment, from various meetings and regarding various Friends, collected by the Friends Historical Library over time. It contains a mix of original documents and copies.
The collection is arranged in in chronological order.
Originally a series in MSS 055 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
Harmer, John from Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting, 1717/18 12mo 3.
Bartram, John from Darby Monthly Meeting, 1758 2mo 1.
Scope and Contents
photostat-positive; blueprint; facsimile.
Irvine, Aesah from Monthly Meeting at Kingwood, 1782 1mo 11.
Scope and Contents
true copy
Richardson, William from Indian Spring Monthly Meeting, 1795 3mo 20.
Rice, George, from Baltimore Monthly Meeting, 1795 5mo 14.
Roberts, Richard & Margaret from Indian Spring Monthly Meeting (also report on their case, 2mo 18 1796.), 1797 3mo 17.
Plumber, Jerome & Elizabeth from Indian Spring Monthly Meeting, 1797 3mo 17.
Plummer, Johanna from Indian Spring Monthly Meeting (also reports on her case and her acknowledgements.), 1797 12mo 15.
Scott, Ann from Indian Spring Monthly Meeting, 1797 12mo 15.
Barnard, Hannah from Hudson Monthly Meeting, 1802 6mo 22.
Scope and Contents
2 copies; 1 sent to Devonshire Monthly Meeting 2/8/1803.
Roberts, Edward from Gwynedd Monthly Meeting, 1805 9mo 24.
Green, Robert, Jr. by Chester Monthly Meeting, Chester County, Pa., 1820 4mo 24.
Scope and Contents
xerox
McVaugh, Mary from Radnor Monthly Meeting, 1827 12mo 13.
Stephens, Stephen from Radnor Monthly Meeting, 1827 12mo 13.
Shinn, Rebecca from Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (?), 1828 1mo 30.
Painter, Enos by Chester Monthly Meeting, Chester County, Pa., 1828 4mo 7.
Scope and Contents
xerox
Painter, Minsall by Chester Monthly Meeting, Chester County, Pa., 1828 4mo 7.
Scope and Contents
xerox
Painter, Hannah, by Chester Monthly Meeting, Chester County, Pa., 1828 5mo 5.
Scope and Contents
xerox
Comly, John from Frankford Monthly Meeting, 1828 5mo 27.
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Whitelock, Elizabeth from Frankford Monthly Meeting, 1828 5mo 27.
Thompson, Elizabeth Powell, from Greenwich Monthly Meeting, NJ, 1828 7mo 3.
Rulon, Moses, from Woodbury Monthly Meeting, 1828 7mo 28.
Scope and Contents
2 copies including Photostat copy, negative
Smedley, Isaac from Uwchlan Monthly Meeting, 1828 10mo 9.
Smedley, Mary from Uwchlan Monthly Meeting, 1828 11mo 6.
Painter, Sidney, by Chester Monthly Meeting, Chester County, Pa., 1828 11mo 28.
Scope and Contents
xerox
re Gregg, Samuel, et al, To Owl Creek Preparative Meeting, [1829].
Lockwood, John from Oswego Monthly Meeting, 1829 3mo 18.
Borton, Levi from Chester Monthly Meeting, 1829 4mo 14.
Hicks, Elias from Westbury & Jericho Monthly Meeting, 1829 4mo 29.
Laing, David from Rahway & Plainfield Monthly Meeting, 1829 5mo 20.
Wollaston, Samuel from Wilmington Monthly Meeting, 1829 5mo 25.
Borton, Sarah from Chester Monthly Meeting, 1829 6mo 9.
Disciplinary appeals, 1833, 1847, 1850.
Laing, Alpheus & Mary from Rahway & Plainfield Monthly Meeting, 1835 4mo 15.
Walker, Susanna from Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1839 2mo 6.
Lippincott, Elizabeth from Chester Monthly Meeting, 1845 12mo 9.
Marot, Charles Henry from Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (Northern District), 1846 7mo 28.
Allen, Edmund H. from Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, 1846 10mo 29.
Pennock, P., 1850 (?).
Scope and Contents
manuscript draft
Abstracts - disownments for Military Service, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1860-1869.
Seal, William T. from New Garden Monthly Meeting, 1864 7mo 6.
Scope and Contents
manuscript copy
Price, William L. from Arch St. Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, 1890 2mo 27.
[Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Orthodox?] Form for Minute of Disownment., Undated.