Valley Preparative Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Valley Preparative Meeting, 1760-1939, as follows: minutes of the men's pre-Separation and Hicksite meeting and joint sessions, 1810-1939; women's pre-Separation and Hicksite meeting minutes, 1814-1896; graveyard accounts, 1800-1887; list of marriages and marriage acknowledgments, 1760-1805; First Day School report, 1905; Hicksite clerk's correspondence, 1930-1936.
Dates
- Creation: 1760-1939
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
Valley Preparative Meeting was established in 1810. The Orthodox preparative meeting was discontinued shortly after the Separation of 1827. Valley Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) was transferred to Valley Monthly Meeting in 1936. It was discontinued in 1939.
Extent
3 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
- Valley Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1810-1827) (Organization)
- Valley Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1827-1939) (Organization)
- Valley Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1810-1827) (Organization)
- Title
- Valley Preparative Meeting Records
- Date
- 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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