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Warrington Monthly Meeting (1747-1861) Records

 Collection — othertype: SW/B/W371
Identifier: QM-B-W371

Scope and Contents

Records of Warrington Monthly Meeting, 1739-1876. Includes men's minutes 1747-1840, women's minutes 1753-1857, and vital records 1739-1876.

Dates

  • 1739-1876

Creator

Language of Materials

Records in English

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

Information on reproduction policies available in the Library.

Biographical / Historical

Friends at Warrington and Newberry meetings asked to be set off from Sadsbury Monthly Meeting in 1747. The meeting became known as Warrington Monthly Meeting. Due to westward migration, Warrington Monthly Meeting was laid down in 1861, and its members joined to Menallen Monthly Meeting. After the Separation of 1828, the few Friends who sided with the Orthodox came under the care of Baltimore Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). In 1893, an Orthodox preparative meeting was formed in Adams County called Bendersville. In 1945, a group of Friends in Warrington expressed an interest in beginning a meeting at the same meeting house that was used in the 1700s. A second Warrington Monthly Meeting was established in 1947.

Extent

4 Linear Feet

Arrangement

Divided into series: 1.Men's Minutes; 2.Women's minutes; 3.Vital records.

Physical Location

This collection is stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Deposit, Baltimore Yearly Meeting.

General

Vol. 2.1 contains fragments as early as 1750, extremely fragile.

Title
Warrington Monthly Meeting (1747-1861) Records
Date
2005
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

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