Eastland Preparative Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Eastland Preparative Meeting, 1796-1954. Includes men's and joint minutes 1803-1926, women's minutes 1807-1890, vital records 1803-1954, financial and property records 1885-1954, and miscellaneous 1796-1843.
Current records of Eastland Preparative Meeting (along with those of Penn Hill Preparative Meeting) are arranged and described with Little Britain Monthly Meeting, which is modeled on the traditional British system of two worshipping congregations constituting a traveling monthly meeting for business.
Dates
- Creation: 1796-1954
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.
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Biographical / Historical
Nottingham Monthly Meeting indulged a meeting for worship at Eastland in 1796 as part of Little Britain Preparative Meeting. Eastland Meeting petitioned the Western Quarterly Meeting for its own preparative meeting in 1802, and the request was granted in 1803. In 1804, members of Eastland Preparative Meeting joined with those at Little Britain to form Little Britain Monthly Meeting. Most of the Friends at Eastland were Hicksites after 1828, but some Orthodox members from Little Britain Monthly were joined as an Orthodox preparative meeting. Today the meeting at Eastland is also known as Little Britain-Eastland.
Extent
1 linear ft.
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Divided into series: 1.Men's and Joint Minutes; 2.Women's Minutes; 3.Vital Records; 4.Financial and Property Records; 5.Miscellaneous.
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit, Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
General
Vol. 2.3 contains West Nottingham Preparative Meetings Minutes, 1761-1770. Vol. 3.1 includes membership records, marriages, and lists of officers. Vol. 4.1 includes misc. papers. Vol. 5.1 includes minutes from Nottingham Monthly Meeting concerning the creation of Eastland Preparative Meeting.
Subject
- Title
- Eastland Preparative Meeting 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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