Bucks Auxiliary Bible Association of Friends (Bucks County, Pa.) Records
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the minutes, correspondence, reports and financial records of the Bucks Auxiliary Bible Association of Friends, a Quaker Bible distribution society, together with ms. genealogy of the Moon family.
Dates
- Creation: 1830-1845
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
The Bucks Auxiliary Bible Association of Friends, a Quaker Bible distribution society, located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was established in 2nd month, 1830, under the Bible Association of Friends in America. Its purpose was to supply “Friends and others with the Holy Scripture, “to encourage” the frequent and serious perusal of them,” and to promote “a more accurate knowledge of their invaluable contents.”
All subscriptions collected by the Auxiliary were turned over to the parent body, which in turn provided the Auxiliary with Bibles or testaments to sell or to distribute in their vicinity. According to the Annual Reports of the Bible Association of Friends in America, the Bucks Auxiliary ceased to operate in 1857.
Extent
0.25 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Bucks Auxiliary Bible Association of Friends, a Quaker Bible distribution society, located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was established in 2nd month, 1830, under the Bible Association of Friends in America. Its purpose was to supply “Friends and others with the Holy Scripture, “to encourage “the frequent and serious perusal of them”, and to promote “a more accurate knowledge of their invaluable contents”. All subscriptions collected by the Auxiliary were turned over to the parent body, which in turn provided the Auxiliary with Bibles or testaments to sell or to distribute in their vicinity. According to the Annual Reports of the Bible Association of Friends in America, the Bucks Auxiliary ceased to operate in 1857. This collection contains the minutes, correspondence, reports and financial records of the Bucks Auxiliary Bible Association of Friends, together with a manuscript genealogy of the Moon family, compiled by the donor.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into five series. The series are:
- Minutes
- Corresponding Committee
- Reports
- Correspondence
- Financial Records
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Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Charles H. Moon
Date: 12/1934
Subject
- Bucks Auxiliary Bible Association of Friends (Bucks County, Pa.) (Organization)
- Moon family (Family)
- Title
- An Inventory of the Bucks Auxiliary Bible Association of Friends (Bucks County, Pa.) Records, 1830-1845
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- before 1967
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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