Box 18

Scope and Contents Includes a circa 1907 inventory of papers in the Plainfield Meeting House, several inventories of records sent to New York Yearly Meeting's Records Committee (and now held at Swarthmore), and a 1926 letter to the Records Committee about information related to the Rahway Meeting property (sold in 1893 with proceeds split between the Orthodox and Hicksite branches) and the Hardwick Meeting property in Morris County (formerly the site of Hardwick and Randolph Monthly Meeting before being laid...

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The file includes correspondence to and from the Centennial Committee (including an invitation to John Greenleaf Whittier), a program and ms speeches given at the celebration (on early Friends in Plainfield and on women in the Society of Friends), and newsclippings about the centennial.

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File includes "The Evolution of a Quaker Meeting, 1686-1938" which talks about the history of Plainfield Meeting and the 1788 Meeting House, and discusses three foundational concerns of the congregation: peace, race relations, and temperance. Records also include a guide to exhibits, a summary of the Meeting's first (1686-1750) and second (1751-1788) minute books, and photocopies of newsclippings.

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File includes a "theoretical meeting for business" script composed out of excerpts of 18th-century minute books, the anniversary program, a memory book made by the committee for the future use of the 200th anniversary, and invitation lists and newsclippings.

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File includes a lot of correspondence (replies to invitation, etc.), a copy of the invitation, an epistle "To Friends of the Future" included in a time capsule buried at the celebration, committee records related to the anniversary and program, and a playscript for "Washington Rock."

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Includes Margaret Vail's 1913 account of the Plainfield Meeting House, an offprint from "A History of New Jersey Quakers," a 1998 one-sheet on the meeting house, photocopies of Dr. Robert W. Harper papers on the Underground Railroad in South Jersey (including a photocpy of a Salem County manumission), and a 2000 newsclipping about New Jersey Historic Trust's grant to repair the Meeting House.