Northwest Fork Monthly Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Two items from Northwest Fork Monthly Meeting: a 1847 deed and a 1899 letter to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Representative Committee.
Dates
- Creation: 1847 - 1899
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
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
Northwest Fork Monthly Meeting was established in 1800. In 1847 the Meeting purchased land in Dorchester County, Maryland to construct a meeting house.
According to Thomas C. Hill, Northwest Fork began as a Nicholite group in 1774 before joining with the Quakers under Third Haven Monthly Meeting as a Preparative Meeting in 1798. Its Preparative Meetings included Northwest Fork, Pine Grove, and Preston, but Pine Grove was laid down in 1891 leaving just two preparatives. Hill's research shows additional subordinate groups of Centre and Tuckahoe Neck.
Northwest Fork, like the rest of the Southern Quarter, remained with the Hicksite Branch in the 1828 Separation, and was laid down in 1946.
Extent
0.1 linear ft. (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Found in Sadsbury Monthly Meeting Records; deposit by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
- Title
- Northwest Fork Monthly Meeting Records
- Author
- Caitlin Goodman
- Date
- 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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