Woodbury Monthly Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Woodbury Monthly Meeting, 1702-ongoing, as follows: pre-Separation, Hicksite, Orthodox (to 1922), and United men's & joint minutes, 1785-2004, Orthodox women's minutes, 1785-1902, Hicksite women's minutes, 1827-1893, pre-Separation and Orthodox marriages, 1786-1927, Hicksite marriages, 1828-1916, pre-Separation and Orthodox births & burials, Hicksite burials, 1852-1832, pre-Separation and Hicksite Ministers & Elders minutes, 1805-1921, financial records, records of Woodbury Friends School and Woodbury First-day School, and miscellaneous papers.
Dates
- Creation: 1702-2004
Creator
- Woodbury Monthly 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
Woodbury Monthly Meeting was established in 1784 by Salem Quarterly Meeting. The first business sessions were held in 1785.
Woodbury split into Orthodox and Hicksite branches in the 1828 Separation, and the Orthodox monthly meeting was transferred to Haddonfield and Salem Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox) in 1904 while the Hicksite meeting remained with Salem Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite).
In 1954, the Hicksite Woodbury's Upper Greenwich Preparative Meeting
In 1954, Upper Greenwich Preparative Meeting at Mickleton was set off from Woodbury (Hicksite) as Mickleton Monthly Meeting. The remaining members of Woodbury (Hicksite) merged with Woodbury (Orthodox) to form a united Woodbury Monthly Meeting, which co-reported to Hadonfield and Salem Quarterly Meeting (Orthdox) and Salem Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite). Once the two yearly meetings and their quarterlies were united in 1955, Woodbury Meeting reported solely to the united Salem Quarterly Meeting.
Woodbury Monthly Meeting is an active meeting.
Extent
8.25 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. Please contact friends@swarthmore.edu for more information on depositing new records.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
Subject
- Woodbury Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1954) (Organization)
- Woodbury Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1954) (Organization)
- Woodbury Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) (Organization)
- Woodbury Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1954) (Organization)
- Woodbury Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1954) (Organization)
- Woodbury Friends First Day School (Woodbury, N.J.) (Organization)
- Title
- Woodbury Monthly 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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