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Easton Preparative Meeting (Burlington County, NJ) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-E100

Scope and Contents

Records of the Orthodox branch of Easton Preparative Meeting, 1810-1944, include: men's minutes, 1810-1944; women's minutes, 1810-1900; financial records, 1870-1899; trustees' school fund account book, 1824-1900.

Dates

  • Creation: 1804-1944

Creator

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

An indulged meeting at Easton was organized under Evesham Monthly Meeting in 1804. The meeting for worship and preparative meeting were established in 1810 by Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting.

The Orthodox preparative meeting was discontinued in 1944.

There was no Hicksite preparative meeting; Easton Meeting (Hicksite) was discontinued in 1859.

Extent

1.25 linear ft.

Language of Materials

English

Physical Location

This collection is stored at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Deposit

Title
Easton Preparative Meeting (Burlington County, NJ) Records
Date
2003
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

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