Birmingham Preparative Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records include: Hicksite and United minutes, 1869-1956; Hicksite women's minutes, 1869-1886 (included in Joint minutes, 1869-1903); Orthodox minutes, 1852-1921; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1886-1919; pre-Separation and Hicksite deeds and other property records, 1721-1903; Hicksite First Day School minutes, 1897-1949; miscellaneous papers, 1960; and Orthodox School Fund accounts, 1828-1845.
Dates
- Creation: 1721-1956
Creator
- Birmingham Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1956) (Organization)
- Birmingham Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1922) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to the Repositories All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
Biographical / Historical
Birmingham Preparative Meeting was established in 12mo 1726/1727 by Concord Monthly Meeting. In 1827, at the time of the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, two preparative meetings emerged. Birmingham Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1922. Its members were transferred to West Chester Preparative Meeting (Orthodox). Birmingham Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) became Birmingham Monthly Meeting at Birmingham in 1956, at the dissolution of Birmingham Monthly Meeting (Hicksite).
Extent
3.25 linear ft.
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
This collection includes records stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
Subject
- Birmingham Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1727-1827) (Organization)
- Birmingham Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1956) (Organization)
- Birmingham Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1922) (Organization)
- Birmingham Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1727-1827) (Organization)
- Title
- Birmingham Preparative Meeting Records
- Date
- 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Find It at the Library
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