Call Number:

SC.275

Repository:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Extent:

.1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (1 folder.))

Preferred Citation:

Cite as: Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meeting account of the Separation, SC/275, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.

Date:

1827-1829 (inclusive)

Creator:

Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends (1828- : Plainfield, N.J.)

Abstract:

The collection contains two detailed draft manuscript reports of the events and proceedings in Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meeting and the Quarterly Meeting with attention to property and control of the records.

A monthly meeting was established at Amboy, N.J., in 1686 by under Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. In 1763, the monthly meeting began to circulate between Plainfield, Rahway, and Woodbridge meetings. Six years later sessions of the Monthly Meeting began to alternate only between Rahway and Plainfield. Two monthly meetings emerged at the time of the Separation in 1827. The Hicksite monthly meeting was transferred to New York Yearly Meeting in 1833 along with the rest of Shrewsbury Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite).