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Chester County (Pa.) -- Genealogy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Pennsgrove Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/P450
Identifier: QM-Ph-P450
Scope and Contents

Records of the Hicksite Preparative Meeting as follows: minutes,1829-1944 and 1944-1951; First Day school minutes, 1896-1898 and 1900-1909.

Dates: 1829-1951
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Pikeland Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/P500
Identifier: QM-Ph-P500
Scope and Contents

Includes: minutes of the men's meeting, 1838-1854; deed, 1834.

Dates: 1834-1854
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Schuylkill Monthly, Preparative, and Indulged Meetings Records (including Charlestown Meeting)

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/S300
Identifier: QM-Ph-S300
Scope and Contents Records include: Minutes of the indulged meeting, 1939-1954, and of the Monthly Meeting, 1954-1972, 1974-1977, 1979-1982, 1998-2002, and 2014-2019. Marriage licenses, 1958-1965, and certificates of removal received, 1959-67, laid in minute book, 1954-1968. Folder of minutes, 1968-72, includes travelling minutes. Miscellaneous records of the earlier meetings at Schuylkill include an account book, 1897-1918; miscellaneous financial papers, 1868 -1929; trip through Pennsylvania (fragment only),...
Dates: 1805-2019
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Uwchlan Monthly Meeting Records (Downingtown Friends Meeting)

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-U900
Scope and Contents

Records of Uwchlan Monthly Meeting -- pre-Separation, Orthodox, and united -- 1763-1914. Includes: pre-Separation and Orthodox minutes, 1763-1852, and women's minutes, 1763-1882; Orthodox ministers & elders' minutes, 1782-1914; Orthodox burials (Downingtown, Pa.), 1813-1887; manumissions, 1775-1784.

Dates: 1763-2005.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Valley Monthly Meeting (Delaware Co., Pa.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-V300
Scope and Contents Records of Valley Monthly Meeting, from 1820s to present. Records include business minutes from 1936-2018 (including digital minutes); property records related to the land, meetinghouse, and burial ground, including the early 19th century site survey; some minimal membership information from the 1980s and 1990s, several member histories of the meeting, the Living Memory Project (a 2000s oral history video series), a partial run of its newsletter, and committee records primarily from the...
Dates: 1809 - 2018
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Valley Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/V320
Identifier: QM-Ph-V320
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: 1760-1939
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Chester Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/W400
Identifier: QM-Ph-W400
Scope and Contents

Records include: minutes, 1956-1969 and a mix of born-digital and digitized minutes 2008-2015 and 2020-2022; membership papers, 1955-1976; Overseers' minutes, 1956-1964; marriage certificate, 1956.

Dates: 1955 - 2022
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Chester Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-W420
Scope and Contents Records of West Chester Preparative Meeting, 1811-1943, include: minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting and joint sessions, 1841-1940; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1866-1932; Hicksite women's minutes, 1862-1888; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1875-1920; Hicksite financial records, 1864-1928; Orthodox financial records, 1876-1908; school committee papers, 1887-1897; property committee minutes, 1900-1923; history of the meeting chiefly concerning property ownership and buildings, 1881; miscellaneous...
Dates: 1811-1943
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Grove Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/W440
Identifier: QM-Ph-W440
Scope and Contents

Records of West Grove Monthly Meeting and West Grove Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1919-2014, include: Minutes, 1919-2014; vital records, 1919-1962; minutes of the Meeting of Ministry and Counsel, 1919-1935; West Grove First Day School minutes, 1918-1947; minutes and other papers of the Association for the Care of Friends' Burial Ground at Lower New Garden, 1914-1977; West Grove Friends' Forum minutes, 1925-1942; miscellaneous papers, 1935-1938; Treasurer's records, 2012-14.

Dates: 1914-2014
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Grove Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-W450
Scope and Contents Records of the West Grove Preparative Meeting, 1788-1979, include: Hicksite minutes, 1833-1949; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1846-1946; Hicksite women's minutes, 1853-1889; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1870-1919; Hicksite financial and property records, 1830-1973; Orthodox financial records, 1817-1915; Hicksite First Day School minutes, 1880-1912; Young Friends' Association minutes, 1904-1912), burial charts, 1910; burial permits, 1917-1925; account books and other financial papers, 1835-1910; West...
Dates: 1788-1979
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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