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Trenton Friends Association Records

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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
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Collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

Constitution and By-Laws of the Trenton Friends, 1892.
Box 1
Association, organized in Trenton, N.J.
Box 1
Minutes, 1892-1904.
Box 1
Executive Committee Minutes, 1892-1901.
Box 1

Reviews of yearly work of the Trenton Friends Association, 1893, 1894, 1896.
Box 1

Scope and Contents

Arranged alphabetically by title or key word in subject.

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

fragment

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

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

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