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Trenton Friends Association Records

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the 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

Call Number:
RG4.064
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], Trenton Friends Association, Records, 1892-1908, RG 4/064, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Date:
1892-1908 (inclusive)
Creator:
Trenton Friends Association (Trenton, N.J.) and Swarthmore College
Abstract:
The Trenton Friends Association was formed in 1892 in Trenton, New Jersey, to promote "a thorough knowledge of the history and testimonies of the Society of Friends." Meetings were held monthly, except in the summer, in the Trenton Friends meeting house. Papers were presented on a variety of topics. The collection contains minutes, constitution and bylaws, and manuscripts of papers read at meetings.

The Trenton Friends Association was formed in 1892 in Trenton, New Jersey. to promote "a thorough knowledge of the history and testimonies of the Society of Friends." Meetings were held monthly, except in the summer, in the Trenton Friends meeting house. Papers were presented on a variety of topics.

The collection contains minutes, constitution and bylaws, and manuscripts of papers read at meetings of the Trenton Friends Association (Trenton, New Jersey)

The collection has been divided into four series:

  1. Constitution and Minutes
  2. Reviews of yearly work of the Trenton Friends Association, 1893, 1894, 1896
  3. Manuscripts of papers read at the meetings of the Trenton Friends Assoc.
  4. Reference Material

Donor: American Friends Service Committee, 1950

Donor: Trenton Monthly Meeting, 1996

Additional manuscripts transferred from Young Friends Association (West Chester, Pa) in 1997.

Additional manuscripts transferred from Young Friends Association (West Chester, Pa.) in 1997.

Subject

Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1997
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Constitution and By-Laws of the Trenton Friends, 1892.
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Archival Resource Key. Association, organized in Trenton, N.J.
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Archival Resource Key. Minutes, 1892-1904.
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Archival Resource Key. Executive Committee Minutes, 1892-1901.
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Archival Resource Key. Reviews of yearly work of the Trenton Friends Association, 1893, 1894, 1896.
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Scope and Contents

Arranged alphabetically by title or key word in subject.

Archival Resource Key. "Abolition of Slavery, A Short Sketch of some of the members of the Society who took an active part in the movement for." Author unknown., n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "What credit was due at the Abolition Societies..." By B.S., n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Are we justified in neglecting business to attend week-day meeting?" By Anna Matlack, 10-25-1897.
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Archival Resource Key. "As others see us." Author unknown, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Barclay, Robert, Life and Writings." Author unknown, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Belief, what significance has - upon the life of an individual?" Author unknown, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Birthright Membership." By John Walton, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Can the Interest in our Association be Increased and How?" By A.V. Robinson, 9-25-1899.
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Archival Resource Key. "Conference of Friends, Toronto 8/1904" By Joseph Willits, 2-27-1905.
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Archival Resource Key. "Divorce, What should be the attitude of Friends concerning -?" By Abel Mahan, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Do we experience a refining influence through adversity and affliction?" Author unknown., n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Does Quakerism Meet the Demands of the Advanced Liberal Thought." By Abel Mahan, 1-10-1903.
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Archival Resource Key. "Early Friends, Sketches of.", 8-26-1894.
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Archival Resource Key. "Early Friends' Literature Poisoned by Time." By George Sherman Potts, 11/1893.
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Archival Resource Key. "George Fox." By S.S. DeCou, 1893.
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Archival Resource Key. "George Fox and His Times." By Benjamin Satterthwait, 5-20-1893.
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Archival Resource Key. "George Fox, in the period from 1648-1660." By Phebe H. Tomlinson, 1-23-1893.
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Archival Resource Key. "Is a free Ministry the most efficient we can have for the advancement and growth of our Religious Society?" By Abel Mahan, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Free Quakers of Philadelphia and in what way were they different from other Friends of their time?" Author unknown, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Friend Poets." By C. Snyder, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Habit and Condition of the Jews at the time of Christ." By Rabbi Weiss, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Have not Friends too blindly followed the traditions of the past, regardless of their application to the present?" G.S. Potts, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Elias Hicks." Author unknown, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Hicks, Rachel of Wetbury, L.I., A few recollections of our dear friend the late-." By Joseph Willits, 12-20-1901.
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Archival Resource Key. "How do Friends differ from Evangelical denominations in their interpretations of the Bible?" By F. Cubberley, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "How long before George Fox did Martin Luther come out of the Roman Catholic Church, and how did Fox differ from him?" (incomplete) Author unknown, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Immediate Revelation. What do we understand by the term?" Author unknown, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "In what manner do Friends differ from Unitarians?" Author unknown, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Inspiration, What is -?" By Rebecca T. Roman, 5-22-1893.
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Archival Resource Key. "Lippincott, Mary S." Author unknown, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Model First Day School." By Esther Potts, 9-23-1898.
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Archival Resource Key. "Longwood, PA, meeting of Progressive Friends" By Laura Fell, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "James Naylor." Author unknown, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Nice, Council of" By J.W. (Joseph Willits?), 12-27-1898.
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Archival Resource Key. "On what basis could the different Religious Societies of Friends be united into one body?" By E.C. Hancock, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Oaths, Why are Friends firm in their testimony against -?" By Hanna T. Branin (?), n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Overseers, What can - do for the general welfare of our religious Society?" Author unknown, 9-25-1899.
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Archival Resource Key. "Parliament Or the World's Religions." By Laura H. Satterthwaite, 10-23-1893.
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Archival Resource Key. "Peace and Arbitration of National Differences." By Joseph Willits, 5-28-1894.
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Archival Resource Key. "William Penn." By A.V. Robinson, 5-22-1893.
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Archival Resource Key. "Plain Garb, In what literature or from whose writings can we learn whether the - was adopted as a sign of conversion, or, cross, or was it the dress of the people at the time of the rise of Quakerism?" By Sara C. Reeves, 1-22-1894.
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Archival Resource Key. "Plain Language, What principles were Involved in the use of the - in the time of early Friends? Does it now exist?" By A.E. Moon, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Discipline".
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Archival Resource Key. "Funerals".
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Archival Resource Key. "Marriage".
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Archival Resource Key. "War".
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Archival Resource Key. "What prominent ministering Friends were contemporaneous with George Fox in the early part of his ministry?" By Anna E. Watson, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Ritual, Have Friends a -?" (incomplete) Author unknown, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Should a person hold membership with the Society of Friends who does not fully endorse the Discipline?" By M. Harvey Tomlinson, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "William Sewel." By M. Harvey Tomlinson, 2-27-1893.
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Archival Resource Key. "The spirit of the times..." Author unknown, 4-27-1908.
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Archival Resource Key. "Swarthmore College and its advantages to the Society." By Laura H. Satterthwaite, 10-28-1895.
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Archival Resource Key. "What can friends do to retain the interest of their young members?" By Chas H. Walton, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "What has the society done for the advancement of Woman?" By Carrie S. Bamford, 11-28-1898.
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Archival Resource Key. "The Wilburite and Gurneyites." By Joseph Willits, 1-18-1900.
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Archival Resource Key. "Is worship the highest conception of our obligation to the Supreme Power?" Author unknown, n.d.
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Archival Resource Key. "Lucretia Mott, 1793-1880." By Esther Potts, 12-18-1893.
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Physical Description

fragment

Archival Resource Key. "Persecution of Friends or Quakers in Colonial New England." By Joseph Willits, 2-1894.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. "Statistics on Society of Friends in England.", 1881.
Box 1

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