Uwchlan Monthly Meeting Records (Downingtown Friends Meeting)
Scope and Contents
Records of Uwchlan Monthly Meeting -- pre-Separation, Orthodox, and united -- 1763-1914. Includes: pre-Separation and Orthodox minutes, 1763-1852, and women's minutes, 1763-1882; Orthodox ministers & elders' minutes, 1782-1914; Orthodox burials (Downingtown, Pa.), 1813-1887; manumissions, 1775-1784.
Dates
- Creation: 1763-2005.
Creator
- Uwchlan Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) (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
Uwchlan Monthly Meeting was established in 1763 by Chester [Concord] Quarterly Meeting out of Goshen Monthly Meeting. In 1827, after the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches.
Uwchlan Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) merged with Bradford Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) in 1883 to form Bradford & Uwchlan Monthly Meeting. This meeting was discontinued in 1901.
Uwchlan Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) removed to Downingtown from Lionville in 1900. This meeting was the forerunner of the current Uwchlan Monthly Meeting.
Extent
12.5 Linear Feet
Language
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 hc-special@haverford.edu for more information on depositing new records.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
Separated Materials
Records of Uwchlan Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) are described in the finding aid with Bradford & Uwchlan Monthly Meeting records.
Subject
- Uwchlan Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) (Organization)
- Uwchlan Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) (Organization)
- Uwchlan Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) (Organization)
- Title
- Uwchlan Monthly Meeting Records
- Date
- 2003
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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