Kennett Monthly Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Kennett Monthly Meeting, 1650-ongoing; includes: Hicksite registers of births and deaths, 1650-1896; burial records, 1741-1777, and Hicksite 1754-1931; Hicksite marriage certificates, 1692-1968; Hicksite membership records, 1851-1858, 1892-1977; Orthodox membership records, 1857-1864, 1885-1939; Hicksite and United men’s minutes, 1686-2012; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1827-1939; clerk's correspondence, 1933-1941; Orthodox women's minutes, 1698-1911; Hicksite women’s minutes, 1827-1893; Orthodox ministers and elders' minutes, 1856-1880; Hicksite financial records, 1885-1918; property records, 1743-1931; sufferings committee minutes, 1757 and 1777-1791; and miscellaneous papers, 1776-1910.
Digital records of the Old Kennett Burial Ground, under care of Kennett Monthly Meeting, are also describd here.
Dates
- Creation: 1650 - 2022
Creator
- Kennett Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) (Organization)
- Kennett Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.
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
The first monthly meeting of Friends which was to become Newark was held at the Widow Welsh's in New Castle in 1686. It became part of Chester [Concord] Quarterly Meeting in 1693. The monthly meeting was transferred to Western Quarterly Meeting in 1758. In 1760, its name was changed to "Kennett". At the time of the Hicksite Separation of 1827, the monthly meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches.
Kennett Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1939, and most of its members were transferred to New Garden Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) in West Grove, Pa.
Kennett Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), which reunited with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) in 1955, was the forerunner of the current Kennett Monthly Meeting.
Extent
36 linear ft.
0.1 GB
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
Subject
- Newark Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1686-1760) (Organization)
- Kennett Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) (Organization)
- Kennett Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) (Organization)
- Kennett Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox) (Organization)
- Newark Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1686-1760) (Organization)
- Kennett Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) (Organization)
- Title
- Kennett Monthly Meeting Records
- Date
- 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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