Begun in 1798, the Canadian Friends Committee was formed to, in cooperation with New York Yearly Meeting, handle the general relations with Quakers in Canada.
Records of Canadian Friends Committee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Delaware County, PA), 1798-1809, include a small number of undistinguished papers; generally correspondence between the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and Canadian meetings.
Deposit
Collection is open for research. Access is through microfilm, if available.
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.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in TRIPOD, the joint on-line catalog of Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings. Please note that records created before 1827, the date of a schism in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, may have been added to by either the Hicksite or Orthodox branches of this meeting, but could include information about members of the other branch before the Separation:
According to the collections introductory page: "Papers relative to the Meetings in Canada from 1798 to 1809 from the time of their establishment to their being joined to New York Yearly Meeting."
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):