Birmingham Preparative Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-B550
Scope and Contents
Records include: Hicksite and United minutes, 1869-1956; Hicksite women's minutes, 1869-1886 (included in Joint minutes, 1869-1903); Orthodox minutes, 1852-1921; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1886-1919; pre-Separation and Hicksite deeds and other property records, 1721-1903; Hicksite First Day School minutes, 1897-1949; miscellaneous papers, 1960; and Orthodox School Fund accounts, 1828-1845.
Dates
- 1721-1956
Creator
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
Birmingham Preparative Meeting was established in 12mo 1726/1727 by Concord Monthly Meeting. In 1827, at the time of the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, two preparative meetings emerged. Birmingham Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1922. Its members were transferred to West Chester Preparative Meeting (Orthodox). Birmingham Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) became Birmingham Monthly Meeting at Birmingham in 1956, at the dissolution of Birmingham Monthly Meeting (Hicksite).
Extent
3.25 Linear Feet
Language
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
- Birmingham Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1727-1827)
- Birmingham Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1727-1827)
- Birmingham Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1956)
- Birmingham Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1922)
- Chester County (Pa.)
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County
Creator
- Title
- RECORDS OF BIRMINGHAM PREPARATIVE MEETING AND BIRMINGHAM MEETING (BIRMINGHAM, PA)
- Subtitle
- A Finding Aid for its Meeting Records Deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
- Date
- 2011
- 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
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