New Garden Preparative Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of New Garden Preparative Meeting, Orthodox and Hicksite, include: men's and joint session minutes, 1827-1928; women's minutes, 1847-1914.
Dates
- Creation: 1827-1928.
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
New Garden Preparative Meeting was established in 1715. The meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches in 1827, at the time of the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
In 1924, Western Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite) gave the Hicksite preparative meeting permission to dissolve. The preparative meeting was actually discontinued in 1928
New Garden Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) was laid down in 1924; its members were transferred to West Grove Preparative Meeting. The meeting for worship was discontinued by 1929.
Extent
2 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
- Title
- New Garden Preparative Meeting 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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