%eadnotat; ]> bartpm* RECORDS OF BART PREPARATIVE MEETING AND BART MEETING (COOPERVILLE, PA) 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 BART PREPARATIVE MEETING AND BART MEETING (COOPERVILLE, PA)A Finding Aid for its Meeting Records Deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Library Quaker CollectionRecords Services Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Summary Records 1831-1938. Bart Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) 1 linear ft. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Quaker Collection 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 known as West Sadsbury was first organized in this area in 1820 by Sadsbury Monthly Meeting. In 1825, the meeting was established as Bart by Caln Quarterly Meeting. A Separation did not occur in this meeting until 1830. The Orthodox meeting for worship was discontinued in 1881; its members were transferred to Sadsbury Meeting (Orthodox). Bart Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) was established in 1840. In 1920, the meeting for worship at Bart was discontinued for the winter; the meeting does not, however, seem to have reappeared, and its members joined Sadsbury Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). In 1924, Caln Quarterly Meeting approved the discontinuance of the preparative meeting; this occurred in 1925.

 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Records include burials (Bart, Pa.), 1831-1935; chart of marked graves at Bart, 1938; Hicksite minutes of the joint sessions, 1887-1925.

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

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 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: Bart Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.) -- 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:

Vital Records

At the time of the Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1827-28, pre-Separation vital records were generally retained by the branch with which the recorder was affiliated. Researchers are advised to consider vital records which span this period carefully: in many cases, the meeting without the original records may have reconstructed these records for its membership only, giving the impression that individuals in the other branch were never members.

 Burials (Bart, PA) 1831-1938 4 items H SW PG1/Bart

Information on graves at Friends' Meeting House, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pa. compiled by Rodney Gilbert in 1938. Included are: key list of graves with headstone transcriptions, 1831-1935; chart of marked graves at Bart, 1938; letter describing the work of charting and transcribing the headstones and the state of the Bart property, 1938; post-card with corrections to key list, 1938

Oversized blueprint of burial ground chart stored in Chart Case

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

No Film No Film Joint Meeting

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 1887-1925 6 v. H SW Box 7

Minutes of Bart Preparative Meeting: 1887-98; 1898-1903; 1903-05; 1905-12; 1913-16; 1916-25. Last minute (4mo 25 1925) is written in pencil and contains the following closing statement: "Bart Meeting is now laid down having ben [sic] granted to do so by Monthly and Quarterly Meetings. Anna S. Baker, clerk."

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

MR-Ph22 No Film Financial Records Certificate of incorporation1926 1 item (3 sheets) ; 34 cm.HSW RG2/Ph/B2

"Recorded February 3, 1927. " -- p. 3. Title on cover: Charter, Bart Meeting of the Society of Friends. Dated: April 22, 1926.

Copy of original document. Bart Meeting of the Society of Friends was incorporated in 1926 for the purpose of dealing with the property of Bart Preparative Meeting, which was discontinued in 1925. The following former members of Bart Preparative Meeting became the corporation's trustees: Norman C. Maule, Asa Walton, Paul Martin, Alison Baker, and Ralph Jackson.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

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