Little Britain Monthly Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Little Britain Monthly Meeting, 1775-2020. Includes men's and joint minutes 1804-2020 (including some from Penn Hill Preparative), women's minutes 1804-1874, vital records 1775-2013, Ministers and Elders minutes 1853-1950, and miscellaneous 1803-2019.
Includes 20th and 21st century records from Little Britain's two constituent preparative meetings (as it is arranged on the traditional English model) of Eastland and Penn Hill.
Dates
- Creation: 1775 - 2020
Creator
- Little Britain Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.
Biographical / Historical
With the consent of Concord Quarterly Meeting, Eastland and Little Britain Preparative Meetings joined together to form Little Britain Monthly Meeting in 1804. The first meeting was held in 10mo 1804. Little Britain came under Baltimore Yearly Meeting in 1819 upon the creation of Nottingham Quarterly Meeting.
During the Separation of 1828, the meeting affiliated with the Hicksite branch of Friends, as a majority of members identified themselves as Hicksite. Those with Orthodox sympathies withdrew from the meeting and joined with Orthodox Friends from Eastland Preparative Meeting to form the Little Britain Preparative Meeting of Nottingham and this body afiliated with Primitive Friends after 1854.
In the 20th century, Little Britain Monthly Meeting arranged itself on the traditional English system of having two preparative meetings, Penn Hill and Eastland, and alternating business meetings between the two meetinghouses, a model that continues into the 21st century.
Extent
3 linear ft.
0.1 GB
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Divided into series: 1.Men's and Joint Minutes; 2.Women's Minutes; 3.Vital Records; 4.Ministers & Elders; 5.Miscellaneous.
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit. Digital records from the 2010s deposited by Wayne Finegar, General Secretary of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, in 2020.
Existence and Location of Copies
Also available in microfilm, for use in the Library only: MR-B, 159-164.
General
Vol. 1.5 includes list of trustees, list of overseers appointed, and census reports. Vol. 1.7 includes lists of committee members. Vol. 2.1 includes certificate of removal of Thomas B. Brown. Vol. 2.2 was damaged by is fragile and illegible in parts; for reading, see Women's minutes 1804 - 1857. Vol. 5.1 includes constitution & by-laws, roll of members, and minutes. For burials, see card catalogue: graveyard records for Ballance, PA.
Subject
- Title
- Little Britain Monthly Meeting Records
- Date
- 2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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