South River Monthly Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of South River Monthly Meeting, 1757-1848. Includes men's minutes 1757-1839, women's minutes 1763-1842, and vital records 1757-1848.
Dates
- Creation: 1757-1848
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
Meetings at South River began as the Weekly Meeting of Bedford in 1754, under the care of Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting. By 1757 it achieved the status of a Monthly Meeting part of Upper Quarterly Meeting. Goose Creek, in Bedford County, was granted the status of an indulged meeting under South River Monthly Meeting in 1786 and by 1794 was established as a Monthly Meeting. In 1797 Western Quarterly Meeting was set up for South River and Goose Creek Meetings. By 1814 Goose Creek Monthly Meeting was discontinued and membership joined to South River. Western Quarterly Meeting was discontinued in 1817 and South River was again joined to Upper Quarterly Meeting. South River Monthly Meeting itself was laid down in 1847.
Extent
2.5 linear ft.
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Divided into series: 1.Men's Minutes; 2.Women's Minutes; 3.Worship & Ministry and its Predecessors; 4. Financial Records; 5.Miscellaneous.
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit, Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
Subject
- Title
- South River Monthly Meeting Records
- Date
- 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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