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Warrington Monthly Meeting (1947- ) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-W372

Scope and Contents

Records of the second Warrington Monthly Meeting, 1945-. Includes minutes 1947-2017, assorted member-related files 1947-2017, treasurer's reports, and records of the Warrington Friends Cemetery (which continued prior to the second Monthly Meeting being established at Warrington in 1947), and newsletters. Miscellaneous records include a file from the 1980s giving an example of the Meeting Clerk and Overseers eldering a member and his family, apportionment responses to BYM, and state of the meeting reports.

Dates

  • Creation: 1945 - 2021

Creator

Language of Materials

Records in English

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.

Conditions Governing Use

Information on reproduction policies available in the Library.

Biographical / Historical

Friends at Warrington and Newberry meetings asked to be set off from Sadsbury Monthly Meeting in 1747. The meeting became known as Warrington Monthly Meeting. Due to westward migration, Warrington Monthly Meeting was laid down in 1861, and its members joined to Menallen Monthly Meeting. After the Separation of 1828, the few Friends who sided with the Orthodox came under the care of Baltimore Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). In 1893, an Orthodox preparative meeting was formed in Adams County called Bendersville.

In 1945, a group of Friends in Warrington expressed an interest in beginning a meeting at the same meeting house that was used in the 1700s. A second Warrington Monthly Meeting was established in 1947. The earlier Warrington Monthly Meeting's records are described separately.

Extent

1 linear ft.

1 GB

Arrangement

Divided into series: 1.Minutes; 2.Vital records; 3.Miscellaneous.

Physical Location

This collection is stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Deposit, Warrington Monthly Meeting. Digital records from the 2010s deposited by Wayne Finegar, General Secretary of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, in 2020.

General

Vol. 3.1 includes the letter of acceptance from Warrington Quarterly Meeting.

Title
Warrington Monthly Meeting (1947- ) Records
Date
2005
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Find It at the Library

Most of the materials in this catalog are not digitized and can only be accessed in person. Please see our website for more information about visiting or requesting repoductions from Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College Library