Plainfield Preparative Meeting (Pre-Separation and Orthodox) Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Plainfield Preparative Meeting, 1793-1918, include: men's minutes, 1879-1904; women's minutes, 1834-1861; school fund treasurer's accounts, 1793-1892; school fund trustees minutes, 1824-1918.
Dates
- Creation: 1793-1918
Creator
- Plainfield Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends) (Organization)
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
A meeting for worship at Plainfield was organized in 1725 under Woodbridge (Rahway and Plainfield) Monthly Meeting. Plainfield Preparative Meeting was established in 1761. The monthly meeting began to circulate to Plainfield in 1763. Plainfield Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) was discontinued in 1893. The Orthodox preparative meeting and meeting for worship at Plainfield were discontinued in 1904 by Burlington and Bucks Quarterly Meeting. The members were transferred to Rahway Preparative Meeting (Orthodox).
Extent
0.5 linear ft.
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
Subject
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Plainfield Preparative Meeting (Pre-Separation and Orthodox) Records
- Author
- Plainfield Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends) (Orthodox : 1827-1904).
- 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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