%eadnotat; ]> allowpm* RECORDS OF ALLOWAYS CREEK PREPARATIVE MEETING AND ALLOWAYS CREEK MEETING (HANCOCK'S BRIDGE, NJ) A Finding Aid for its Meeting Records Deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Quaker Collection Records Services Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2003 RECORDS OF ALLOWAYS CREEK PREPARATIVE MEETING AND ALLOWAYS CREEK MEETING (HANCOCK'S BRIDGE, NJ) A Finding Aid for its Meeting Records Deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Quaker CollectionRecords Services Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Summary Records 1783-1938. Alloways Creek Preparative Meeting of Friends. 1.5 Linear Ft. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Libraries' online catalog: http://tripod.brynmawr.edu SHORT HISTORY OF MEETING

A meeting for worship at Alloways Creek was established in 1679 under Salem Monthly Meeting. A preparative meeting was established by 1745. In 1783, these meetings were transferred to Greenwich Monthly Meeting. After the Hicksite Separation of 1827, two preparative meetings emerged.

The Orthodox preparative meeting and meeting for worship were discontinued in 1828 by Salem Quarterly Meeting; the members were transferred to Greenwich Preparative Meeting (Orthodox).

By 1932, the Hicksite preparative meeting and meeting for worship were not held on a regular basis. The meeting for worship was discontinued in 1950; the preparative meeting was discontinued in 1951.

This meeting is often referred to as "Hancock's Bridge".

 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Records include: Minutes of the pre-Separation and Hicksite men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1783-1938; minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1841-1877.

 ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

Deposit

 Access

Collection is open for research. Access is through microfilm, if available.

 Use Restrictions

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.

 SEARCHING IN OUR ON-LINE CATALOGUE FOR RELATED MATERIALS

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:

Subjects: Alloways Creek Preparative Meeting of Friends -- Archives. Society of Friends -- New Jersey -- Salem County. Salem County (N.J.) -- Genealogy. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Monthly meeting records normally include minutes of men’s and women’s meetings for business and registers of births, deaths, marriages, removals (transfers), and disownments. In general, non-members are not mentioned in the minutes, even when they attended meeting for worship on a regular basis.

Note to Researchers: These records may only be consulted at Swarthmore (SW), and are not available through inter-Library loan. To request materials on-site, please make sure to use the correct call numbers:

Men's Meeting and Joint

Official records of proceedings kept for all Quaker business meetings. Only Quakers could participate. It has responsibility for care of members, authorizes removals and marriages, maintains discipline, considers the queries, manages meeting property, fosters social concerns, and reports regularly to the quarterly meeting. Beginning at the end of the 19th century, men and women ceased to hold separate business meetings, meeting instead in joint session.

 Minutes 1783-1938 3 v. ; 28 cm. or smaller Pre/H SW RG2/Ph/A45

Minute books of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women as follows: 1783-1841, 1841-1900, 1900-1938. Entries for joint sessions from 6mo 1877 to 11mo 1884 were recorded in the women's minute book, 1873- 1877.

Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began in 1877

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

No Film No Film Women's Meeting Minutes 1841-1884 4 v. ; 20 cm. or smaller H SW RG2/Ph/A45

Minute books of the women's meeting, 1841-1856, 1856-1865, 1865-1873, 1873- 1877. No entries recorded for the following: 10mo 1851; 11 and 12mos 1852; 1853. Minute book, 1873-1877 includes entries for joint sessions, 6mo 1877- 11mo 1884.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

No Film No Film