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Collection of Chester County Quaker property records and other manuscripts
Collection — othertype: SC-270
Identifier: SFHL-SC-270
Abstract
Collection contains Chester County, Pa., land-related records including a deed for land sold to Peter Chambers (colored) in East Marlborough in 1833 and survey papers for lands in the 1821-1838, including an 1824 survey of land for a burial ground for people of color conveyed from James Steemer. miscellaneous notes concerning funerals, report of First Day School, 1879, New Garden.
Dates:
1787-1879
Chester Friends Association (Chester, Pa.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-016
Abstract
The Chester Friends Association was established in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1901 as a society to study Quaker history and literature. This collection contains the record book of Chester Friends Association, a society to study Quaker history and literature. The volume contains minutes, constitution, and by-laws.
Dates:
1901-1931
Chester Monthly Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-C431
Scope and Contents
Records of the Chester Monthly Meetings in Chester and Media, Pennsylvania. Includes: births, deaths, marriage certificates, and other vital records, 1677-1961; men's, women's, and joint minutes, 1681-1984; records of the Meeting of Worship and Ministry and Overseers and its predecessors; financial records; and committee and other miscellaneous records. Of additional interest are pre-Separation accounts of sufferings, 1778-1783; manumissions, 1776-1780; and a series of scrapbooks assembled...
Dates:
1677-2004
Chester Preparative Meeting Records
Collection — othertype: SW/Ph/C436
Identifier: QM-Ph-C436
Scope and Contents
Records of the pre-Separation preparative meeting include: rough minutes, 1783-1784 & 1786-1788; subscription book for the support of the poor, 1769-1799; account books, 1785-1788 & 1807-1814. Records of the Hicksite meeting include: Minutes, 1827-1928; women's minutes, 1828-1876; membership lists, 1840-1902; rough minutes, 1887-1909; treasurer's book, 1892-1934; graveyard treasurer's book, 1878-1919. Records of the Orthodox meeting include: Minutes of the men's meeting and later, of...
Dates:
1769-1948
Chester Quarterly Meeting (1955- ) Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-C460
Scope and Contents
Records of Chester Quarterly Meeting since 1955. Included are: Minutes 1955-1973 and 1979-1982; Representative Committee minutes, 1965-1973 and 1979-1982; papers of the Committee to Study Quarterly Meeting, also known as the Ad Hoc Committee on Quarterly Meetings, 1964-1965. A separate series is devoted to the records of the Peace Center of Delaware County (1987-2022).
Records of the first Chester Quarterly Meeting are described with the records of Concord Quarterly Meeting.
Dates:
1955 - 2023
Chestnut Hill Meeting of Friends (1924-1933) Records
Collection — othertype: HV/Ph/C483
Identifier: QM-Ph-C483
Scope and Contents
Records of Chestnut Hill Meeting, 1924-1932, include: joint minutes 1924-1932.
Dates:
1924-1932.
Chestnut Hill Monthly Meeting (1933- ) Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-C482
Scope and Contents
Records of Chestnut Hill Monthly Meeting, 1932-2007, include: burials chart; marriage certificates, 1941-2000; memberships, removals, transfer, 1934-90s; joint minutes, 1932-2007; ministers and elders minutes, 1940-1942, 1953-1973; overseers minutes, 1959-1973.
Dates:
1932-2007
Chichester Preparative Meeting Records
Collection — othertype: SW/Ph/C490
Identifier: QM-Ph-C490
Scope and Contents
Records include: pre-Separation men's meeting minutes, 1804-1813; Hicksite women's minutes, 1843-1899; a pre-Separation account book, 1781-1875; pre-Separation trustees' minutes, 1802-1823.
Dates:
1765-1899
Children's Crusade for Peace Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Children's Crusade for Peace
Dates:
1915
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
"The Vision of Isaac Childs"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-019
Abstract
This collection is comprised of three handwritten copies of the manuscripts of "The Vision of Isaac Childs, which he saw in the year 1757, concerning Pennsylvania, the land of his nativity."
Dates:
1757
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- Miller, Richmond P. (Richmond Pearson), 1902-1972 5
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