Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County

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Records of the Horsham Preparative Meeting, 1758-1959, include: Hicksite men's meeting and joint session minutes, 1758-1959; Orthodox men’s meeting minutes, 1828-1907; Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1785-1893; Orthodox women’s meeting minutes, 1879-1886; account books and other financial records, 1811-1938; and property records, 1760-1938.

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Records of Makefield Monthly Meeting, 1736-2021, include: Hicksite men's meeting and joint session minutes, 1820-1975; vital records, 1736-2021; Hicksite women's minutes, 1820-1892; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1827; ministers and elders' minutes, 1855-1892; treasurer's account book, 1821-1926; account book of Makefield Young Friends Association, 1923-1934; membership committee minutes, 1925-1926.

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Records of the Makefield Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), the Makefield and Newtown Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), and their pre-Separation predecessor, 1793-1926. Records include: Hicksite men’s minutes, 1793-1926; Hicksite women's minutes, 1802-1825 and 1836-1892; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1827; births and deaths, 1862-1902; membership, 1820; financial records, 1804-1810.

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Records of Middletown Monthly Meeting, 1649-2016, include: vital records; men’s and joint session minutes; women’s minutes; ministers’ and elders’ minutes; financial records; miscellaneous papers.

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Minutes of the Hicksite and pre-Separation men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1848-1913; women's minutes, 1859-1893; account books, 1800-1923; trustees' minutes, 1792-1904.

Scope and Contents Records are both paper and digital and generally the runs are not complete. Records include: Hicksite and United minutes since 1926 through 2020; Hicksite and United vital and member-related records (including recorder reports, statistics, and certificates) 1924-2020; minutes and other papers of the Meeting on Worship and Ministry, 1926-2020; newsletter, 1947-2022; committee records, plus some minimal financial and property records.Minutes 1993-2012 and records 2019-2020 are...

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Records of the pre-Separation and Hicksite preparative meeting include: Minutes, 1817-1940; women's minutes, 1817-1892; births and deaths, 1753-1891; trustees' minutes, 1893-1938; trustees' papers, 1915-1934; First Day School minutes, 1888-1901; First Day School Committee annual meeting minutes, 1893-1921

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Records of the Hicksite preparative meeting, 1827-1864, as follows: men's minutes, 1827-1861 and 1861-1864; women's minutes, 1836-1864; women's account book, 1837-1862.

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Records include: minutes, 2002-2017; miscellaneous records, 2002; Worship Group records, 1990-2001. Plumstead Monthly Meeting Records also include records kept by the group prior to its establishment as a monthly meeting. Plumstead Worship Group began meeting regularly for worship in 1989 and began holding regular business meetings in 1996 under care of Buckingham Monthly Meeting.

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Records include: Orthodox men's minutes, 1835-1878.