Box 21
Contains 16 Results:
Answers to queries and espistles, 1820-1897 and n.d.
Chiefly answers to queries from Green Street and Frankford Preparative Meetings (1820-1853 and n.d.). Also included are answers to queries from the Meeting of Ministers and Elders (1897).
Correspondence regarding Fair Hill, 1954-1994
Includes records of the sale of Friends Fair Hill Burial Ground and correspondence with Trustees.
Histories of Green Street and its associates, 1912-1990
Includes handwritten speeches and typescripts, and a 1912 "list of Friends residing in Germantown and its vicinity" which indexes their membership (Green Street, Race Street, or other) and whether they support Germantown Preparative Meeting and/or Friends' Association of Germantown. Printed histories of Green Street and its associated meetings and schools are filed with Swarthmore's PG series and published books are cataloged separately.
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1817 - 1860
Includes drafts related to Elias Hicks' travels and the earliest objections to his ministry.
Interment Records, 1920s-1970s
7.3 is a folder of records related to lots under perpetual care. The book (7.19) is largely blank, but several names were entered in the front A-Z index pages with age, dates of death and burial, and section and lot locations.
Fair Hill Burial Ground records, 1970 - 1993
Records relating to the use of the Fair Hill Burial Ground property, including the summer 1970 use by AFNA (American Foundation for Negro Affairs), the failed sale to the Philadelphia School District, the successful sale to Ephesians Baptist Church, and discussions of repurchasing the property.
Bequests to Fair Hill Burial Ground, 1922 - 1923
Fair Hill Friends Meeting House [Henry Beck's file], 1963 - 1971
Henry Beck's file of attempts to find weekday uses for the Meeting House and community complaints about the Meeting House and gentrification.