%eadnotat; ]> bucksqm RECORDS OF BUCKS QUARTERLY MEETING A Finding Aid for its Meeting Records Deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Library Quaker Collection Records Services Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2003 RECORDS OF BUCKS QUARTERLY MEETING A Finding Aid for its Meeting Records Deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Library Quaker Collection Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Bucks Quarterly Meeting of Friends. Records Services Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Summary Records 1680-[ongoing] Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Bucks Quarterly Meeting of Friends. 6.5 linear ft. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College & Haverford College Library Quaker Collection For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Libraries' online catalog: http://tripod.brynmawr.edu SHORT HISTORY OF MEETING

Bucks Quarterly Meeting was established by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1683. The first business sessions were held in 1684. After the Separation of 1827, there were two Bucks Quarterly Meetings. In 1898, Bucks Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox) was laid down and its members attached to Burlington Quarterly Meeting, renamed Burlington and Bucks Quarterly Meeting. Bucks Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite) merged with Burlington and Bucks Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox) in 1955. The constituent New Jersey meetings of the latter were transferred to the reunited Burlington Quarterly Meeting. The reunited Bucks Quarterly Meeting resumed the use of its pre-Separation name. It is currently active.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Records include: minutes of the men's meeting, 1684-1827; minutes of the Hicksite meeting, 1827–1955 (with joint men and women's sessions beginning in 1893); minutes of the Orthodox meeting, 1827-1898; minutes of the United meeting since 1955; Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1685-1893; Orthodox women’s meeting minutes, 1827-1898; records of births and deaths, 1680-1711; marriage records, 1683-1696; removals, 1682-1743; acknowledgements, 1683-1716; record of manumissions, 1776-1793; Orthodox membership list, 1827-1829; minutes of the Hicksite Ministers and Elders meeting, 1702-1955; minutes of the Orthodox Ministers and Elders meeting, 1827-1898; Worship and Ministry minutes and committee reports of the United meeting, 1958-1988, with gaps, as well as other records.

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.

Orthodox records of Burlington and Bucks Quarterly Meeting may be found in the relevant finding aid.

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:

Earlier/Later Meeting Names Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Bucks Quarterly Meeting of Friends Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Burlington and Bucks Quarterly Meeting of Friends Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Bucks Quarterly Meeting of Friends Subjects: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Bucks Quarterly Meeting of Friends -- Archives. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Burlington and Bucks Quarterly Meeting of Friends -- Archives. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Bucks Quarterly Meeting of Friends -- Archives. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) Bucks Quarterly Meeting of Friends -- Archives. Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

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

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.

Membership 1827-1829 36 p. + 1 sheet (in folder) ; 33-34 cm. O SW RG2/Ph/B86

List of members belonging to Falls and Makefield Monthly Meetings before the separation in 1827, also showing changes up to 1mo. 1829. Also included are: members of Plumstead Preparative Meeting at the time of the Separation; membership of Solebury Monthly & Preparative Meetings at the time of Separation; members of Bristol Preparative Meeting; members of Middletown Preparative Meeting; members of Wrightstown Monthly Meeting. Some pages torn.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film. HV: No Film. Register 1680-1782 1 v. ; 39 cm. Pre SW RG2/Ph/B86

Register, 1680-1782. Includes the following records pertaining to Bucks Quarter: marriage records, 1683-1696; disownments, n.d.; births, 1680-1706. Also included are records of Bristol Preparative Meeting, 1682-1782. This register also includes: Extract from minutes of Bristol Preparative Meeting, 1777 4mo6; extract from minutes of Bristol Preparative Meeting Women's meeting, 1777 5mo15; burials (Bristol, Pa.), 1760-1782; birth (Bristol Preparative Meeting), 1782 7mo21.

Volume is too fragile to be handled or microfilmed.

This volume appears to have been vandalized (pages removed) some time after a copy was made in 1889; the copy may, in fact, represent the only source for information formerly contained in this original volume.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Register: 1889 copy 1680-1782 1 v. (211 p. ) Pre SW RG2/Ph/B86

1889 manuscript copy of Bucks Quarterly Meeting Register, 1680-1782. Includes the following records pertaining to Bucks Quarter: Removals received, 1682-1743; acknowledgements, 1683-1716; marriage records, 1683- 1696; disownments, n.d.; births, 1680-1706; burials, 1682-1711. Also included are records of Bristol Preparative Meeting, 1682-1782. This register also includes: Extract from minutes of Bristol Preparative Meeting, 1777 4mo6; extract from minutes of Bristol Preparative Meeting Women's meeting, 1777 5mo15; burials (Bristol, Pa.), 1760-1782; birth (Bristol Preparative Meeting), 1782 7mo21.

It appears that this 1889 copy of the Bucks County register, 1680-1782, was made before the original was vandalized (pages cut out).

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: MR-Ph 50, 738 HV: No Film Men's Meeting and Joint

Official records of proceedings kept for all Quaker business meetings. Beginning at the end of the 19th century, men and women ceased to hold separate business meetings, meeting instead in joint session.

Minutes 1684-2005 9 vols. + 3 boxes ; 2.2 linear ft. Pre/H/U SW RG2/Ph/B86

Minutes of Bucks Quarterly Meeting since 1684. Included are: Minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting, 1684-1827; minutes of the Hicksite meeting (men and women's joint sessions begin in 1893), 1827-1955; minutes of the united meeting, 1955-72 and 1982-2005. Later volumes include treasurer's reports, reports from monthly meetings, committee reports.

Minutes filmed from 1805-1972.

Original vols. 3-9 stored offsite; access is normally through microfilm only.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: MR-Ph48 (1805-35, 1836-73, 1873-1912, 1912-37, 1937-45) SW: MR-Ph49 (1945-57, 1958-68, 1969-72) HV: No Film Minutes-Extracts 1686-1796 1 folder (1 item) Pre HV 1250/I2.1.1

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Minutes: extracts 1684-1805 1 v. (114 p. in folder) ; 33 cm. Pre SW RG2/Ph/B86

Title transcribed from cover; on cover: no. 22.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Quarterly meetings minutes &c respecting negroes set free and their children 1778-1779 1 sheet (in folder) ; 34 cm. Pre SW RG2/Ph/B86

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Minutes 1827-1885 1 vol. (443 p.) O HV 1250/I2.5

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: MR-Ph64 HV: Film 15* Minutes 1886-1898 1 vol. (82 p.) O HV 1250/I2.6

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: MR-Ph64 HV: Film 15* Minutes-Rough 1948-1953 1 box (7 folders) H HV 1250/I2.29

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Women's Meeting Minutes 1685-1893 3 v. ; 36 cm. or smaller Pre/H SW RG2/Ph/B86

Women's meeting minutes, 1685-1893. Includes minutes of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 1685 6mo5-1827 2mo22, and minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1827 5mo31-1893 2mo23. Joint sessions in which men and women met together for business began 1893 11mo30. Volume for 1869-1893 is lacking recorded minutes for 5th and 8th mos. 1893.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Minutes 1827-1859 1 vol. (309 p.) O HV 1250/I2.12

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: MR-Ph64 HV: Film 15* Minutes 1860-1898 1 vol. (188 p.) O HV 1250/I2.13

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: MR-Ph51 HV: Film 16* Minutes: clerk's copy 1836-1840 1 v. (26 p.) ; 20 cm. H SW RG2/Ph/B86

Clerk's copies of minutes of the women's meeting, 1836 11mo24-1840 8mo27. Date entered for 1840 11mo, but no minutes were recorded.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Minutes: clerk's copy 1888-1893 1 v. (44 p.) ; 21 cm. H SW RG2/Ph/B86

Clerk's copy of minutes of the women's meeting, 1888 8mo30-1893 8mo31. Contains minutes of 5mo & 8mo 1893 which were omitted from the official minute book.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Worship & Ministry and its predecessors

Committee which had care of the spiritual welfare of the meeting, particularly the meeting for worship. Ministry and Counsel committees were established in 1918 by Hicksite meetings, which no longer designated members as ministers or elders. The predecessor of Ministry and Counsel was the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders.

Minutes 1702-1955 4 v. ; 36 cm. or smaller Pre/H/U SW RG2/Ph/B86

Includes: Minutes of the pre-Separation quarterly meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1701-1827; minutes of the Hicksite meeting of Ministers and Elders and, after 1918, Ministry and Counsel, then Worship & Ministry, 1827-1955. The committee underwent two name changes, beginning in 1918 11mo it was called Ministry and Counsel, and on 1954 5mo28 it became Worship and Ministry.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: MR-Ph692 (1702-1815) SW: MR-Ph693 (1816-1891, 1891-1928, 1928-1955) HV: Film 31 (1816-1891, 1891-1928, 1928-1955) HV: Film 32 (1702-1815) Minutes-Rough 1736-1794 1 vol. (170 p.) Pre HV 1250/I2.15

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Minutes: clerk's copy 1746-1784 1 v. (ca. 200 p.) ; 20 cm. or smaller Pre SW RG2/Ph/B86

Clerk's copies of minutes, 1746 6mo24-1748 8mo25. There appear to be at least four notebooks bound together.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Minutes: clerk's copy 1824-1835 1v. (64 p.) ; 21 cm. Pre/H SW RG2/Ph/B86

Clerk's copy of minutes, 1824 5mo26-1835 5mo27. Minutes of the Hicksite meeting begin 1827 5th mo.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Minutes 1827-1867 1 vol. (153 p.) O HV 1250/I2.18

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: MR-Ph51 HV: Film 16* Minutes 1867-1898 1 vol. (102 p.) O HV 1250/I2.20

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: Film MR-Ph51 HV: Film 16* Minutes-Rough 1827-1831 1 vol. (32 p.) O HV 1250/I2.19

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: HV: No Film Minutes-Rough 1831-1836 1 vol. (32 p.) O HV 1250/I2.19

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Minutes 1983-1988 (gaps) 1 folder U SW RG2/Ph/B86

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Annual Reports 1958-62, 1978-86, 1997

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Annual Reports 1958-1962 66 items (in folder). U SW RG2/Ph/B86

Quarterly meeting reports to Yearly Meeting, 1958-1962; summary reports from monthly meetings on worship and ministry, 1960-1962; monthly meetings' answers to queries, 1960-1962.

Annual Reports 1978-1986 1 folder U SW RG2/Ph/B86 Annual Reports 1997 1 folder U SW RG2/Ph/B86 Miscellaneous

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Inquirers' Weekend 1991 1 folder U SW RG2/Ph/B86 Financial Records Financial papers 1749-1772 1 item (in folder) Pre SW RG2/Ph/B86

Photocopy of four receipts, 1749-1772, laid in page 47 of original Bucks Quarterly Meeting Register, 1680-1782.

Photocopy also laid in page 171 of 1889 manuscript copy of register.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Committees Committee of Oversight Minutes 1991 1 folder U SW RG2/Ph/B86

Minutes of the Committee of Oversight of Bucks Quarterly Meeting, 1mo17- 4mo18 1991.

Stored in box with miscellaneous papers, 1989-1992.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Minutes 1981-84, 1986, 1989-93, 2004-05 3 folders (in box) U SW RG2/Ph/B86

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Treasurers' Reports 1989-1994 1 folder (in box) U SW RG2/Ph/B86

Stored in box with minutes, 1981-84.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Reports of the Coordinator 1988-96/2004-05 3 folders (in box) U SW RG2/Ph/B86

Reports of the Quarterly Meeting Coordinator to the Committee of Oversight.

Stored in box with minutes, 1981-84.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film First Day School Union

Business Committee Minutes 1897-1928 1 v. (96 p.) ; 21 cm. H SW RG2/Ph/B86

. Minutes, 1897 4mo7-1928 9mo29.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Minutes 1873-1935 2 v. ; 33 cm. or smaller H SW RG2/Ph/B86

Minutes of the First Day School Union, 1873 10mo9-1898 4mo23; 1898 9mo24- 1935 5mo4.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Philanthropic Committee

Minutes 1882-1919 2 v. ; 22 cm. H SW RG2/Ph/B86

Minutes of the Philanthropic Committee and its predecessor, Friends Temperance Committee, 1882-1912 and 1913-18. Also included are reports to quarterly meeting and to yearly meeting; lists of persons appointed to the committee and accounts, 1883-1912, entered in the back of volume 1882-1912, in opposite direction to minutes.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Miscellaneous Miscellaneous papers 1989-1992 3 folders U SW RG2/Ph/B86

Correspondence, 1989-1992, and annual reports of constituent monthly meetings, including queries and membership statistics, 1990-1992.

Stored in box with minutes of the Committee of Oversight, 1991.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Clerk’s Papers 1948-1953 1 box (7 folders) H HV 1250/I2.29

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Manumissions 1776-1793 1 v. (74 p.) ; 19 cm. Pre SW RG2/Ph/B86

Record of manumissions within the compass of Bucks Quarterly Meeting, 1776- 1793.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Peace and service newsletter 1977-1993 28 cm. U SW RG2/Ph/B86

Description based on: Dec. 1977; title from caption.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Quakerphernalia 1973-2004 1 folder U SW RG2/Ph/B86

Some gaps. Description based on: Fall 1973; title from caption. Newsletter for Bucks Quarterly Meeting.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film