Abington Quarterly Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Abington Quarterly Meetings, 1786, include: Hicksite and United men’s minutes; Orthodox men’s minutes; Hicksite women's minutes; Orthodox women’s minutes; First-day School Union records; minutes of the Hicksite Meeting on Worship and Ministry, the Ministry and Counsel Committee, and of the Meeting of Ministers and Elders, Orthodox; Orthodox meeting financial records; minutes of the Abington Visitation Committee; minutes of the Gwynned Visitation Committee; minutes of the Visitation Committee; minutes of the Incorporated Trustees; Representative Committee minutes; Religious Responsibility Committee minutes; and other miscellaneous papers. Includes answers to queries, extracts, etc.
Dates
- Creation: 1786 - 2022
Creator
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Abington Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to the Repositories All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
Biographical / Historical
Abington Quarterly Meeting was established in 1786 by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting out of a division of Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting. After the Separation of 1827/1828, there were Hicksite and Orthodox branches of this quarterly meeting. The two branches reunited in 1955.
Extent
7 linear ft.
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
This collection includes records stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. Please contact friends@swarthmore.edu for more information on depositing new records.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
Subject
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Abington Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Abington Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Abington Quarterly Meeting (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Abington Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Abington Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Organization)
- Title
- Abington Quarterly Meeting Records
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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