Mill Creek Preparative Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Mill Creek Preparative Meeting, 1841-1910, as follows: Hicksite men's minutes, 1841-1883; Hicksite women's minutes, 1854-1891; deeds, 1841, 1880, & 1910.
Dates
- Creation: 1841-1910
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 Mill Creek was established in 1838 by New Garden Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) for Friends at Center (Hockessin), New Garden, and Wilmington Monthly Meetings. A meeting for worship and preparative meeting were established in 1841 under New Garden Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). The preparative meeting was discontinued in 1924. By 1937, the meeting for worship at Mill Creek was held on an annual basis. Mill Creek Meeting revived in 1954 as a United meeting for worship under the two Western Quarterly Meetings. It became part of Mill Creek Monthly Meeting in 1955.
Extent
0.5 linear ft.
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
Subject
- Title
- Mill Creek Preparative Meeting Records
- Date
- 2011
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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