Deptford Free School Society
Scope and Contents
The collection contains minutes, 1774-1893.
Dates
- Creation: 1774-1893
Creator
- Deptford Free School Society (Organization)
- Deptford Free School (Woodbury, N.J.) (Contributor, Organization)
- Deptford Free School Society (Contributor, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Access is through microfilm.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
The Deptford Free School Society was a Quaker organization which established the Deptford Free School in Woodbury, New Jersey, in 1774. Beginning in 1805, the Society met annually at a business meeting to oversee the operation of the School. The property was conveyed to the City of Woodbury in 1893, due to declining enrollment.
Extent
0.21 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Deptford Free School Society was a Quaker organization which established and operated the Deptford Free School in Woodbury, New Jersey. The collection includes minutes, 1774-1893.
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Francis P. Lee, 1961
Topical
- Education -- New Jersey
- Education -- New Jersey -- Societies, etc.
- Education -- New Jersey -- Woodbury -- Societies, etc.
- Quakers -- New Jersey
- Quakers -- New Jersey
- Quakers -- Societies, etc.
- Schools -- New Jersey
- Schools -- New Jersey -- Quaker
- Schools -- New Jersey -- Woodbury
- Society of Friends -- Education
- Title
- An Inventory of the Deptford Free School Society Minutes, 1774-1893
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 1961
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- 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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