Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Meeting House Trusts Granting Group and its predecessors
Scope and Contents
Records of the Meeting House Trust Funds Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and of its predecessors, the Samuel Jeanes Fund and the Charleston Fund. Includes minutes, files for grants paid, and miscellaneous papers; the latter has records of the Friends meeting house property in Charleston, South Carolina, in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the early minutes of Charleston Monthly Meeting.
Dates
- Creation: 1719-1995
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
The Meeting House Trusts Granting Group was responsible for the administration of both the Samuel Jeanes Trust Fund and the Charleston Fund. Both funds assist meetings in the acquisition, repair and restoration of meeting houses and their grounds.
The Jeanes Fund is limited to meetings within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. It was established from a gift of the Estate of Samuel Jeanes to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) in 1899, "to aid in the repair and construction of meeting houses." The Charleston Fund is available to meetings elsewhere in the world. The basis of the Charleston Fund was the income from the property of Society of Friends in Charleston, South Carolina, which was granted to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in the 18th century and again in 1813.
In 1992, the Meeting House Trust Funds Committee became a subcommittee of the Arch Street Property and Use Committee. When Yearly Meeting was restructured in 1996, the name of the Meeting House Trust Funds Committee was changed to the Meeting House Trust Funds Granting Group. In 2016, the Meeting House Trusts Granting Group was supplanted by the Quaker Building & Programs Granting Group.
Extent
5 linear ft. (5 document cases + 1 volume (Swarthmore))
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Meeting House Trust Funds Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is responsible for the administration of both the Samuel Jeanes Trust Fund and the Charleston Fund. Both funds assist meetings in the acquisition, repair and restoration of meeting houses and their grounds.
Physical Location
This collection includes records stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. Please contact friends@swarthmore.edu for more information on depositing new records.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
Subject
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Sub-Committee having Charge of the Income of the Samuel T. Jeanes Fund for Meeting House Purposes (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Charleston Meeting Estate Trustees (Organization)
- Charleston Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Charleston, S.C.) (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting House Trust Funds Committee (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Sub-Committee having Charge of the Income of the Samuel T. Jeanes Fund for Meeting House Purposes (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Charleston Meeting Estate Trustees (Organization)
- Charleston Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Charleston, S.C.) (Organization)
- Title
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Meeting House Trust Funds
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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