Little Egg Harbor Preparative Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records include: Men's minutes, 1805-1880; Women's minutes, 1817-1839.
Dates
- Creation: 1805-1880
Creator
- Little Egg Harbor Preparative Meeting of Friends (Organization)
Limitations on Accessing the Collection
Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.
Copyright and Rights Information
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
A meeting for worship at Tuckerton was established by 1709 under Chesterfield Monthly Meeting. In 1714, Little Egg Harbor Preparative Meeting was established. The meeting for worship and preparative meeting were transferred to Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting in 1715.
There appears to have been no Hicksite meeting. Little Egg Harbor Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1901; its members were transferred to Burlington Monthly Meeting. An indulged meeting during the summer months was settled at Tuckerton by Burlington Monthly Meeting in 1901. In 1986, this meeting became part of the new Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet
Language
English
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
Subject
- Little Egg Harbor Preparative Meeting of Friends (Organization)
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Little Egg Harbor Preparative Meeting Records
- Date
- 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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