%eadnotat; ]> capempm CAPE MAY PREPARATIVE MEETING (SEAVILLE, NJ). A Finding Aid for its Meeting Records Deposited in Haverford College Library Quaker Collection Records Services Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2003 CAPE MAY PREPARATIVE MEETING (SEAVILLE, NJ). A Finding Aid for its Meeting Records Deposited in Haverford College Library Quaker Collection Summary Records 1794-1817 Cape May Preparative Meeting of Friends. 0.25 linear ft. 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

A meeting for worship was organized at Cape May before 1726 under Salem Monthly Meeting or Haddonfield Monthly Meeting. A preparative meeting was established by 1726. In 1726, the meetings became part of a monthly meeting for Great Egg Harbor and Cape May. The meeting at Cape May was transferred to Maurice River Monthly Meeting in 1804.

In 1817, the monthly meeting was held entirely at Maurice River. Cape May Preparative Meeting was discontinued in 1818.

An indulged Meeting at Cape May during the summer months was established by Greenwich Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) in 1882; in 1886, Salem Quarterly Meeting transferred the oversight of this meeting to Salem Monthly Meeting. It was discontinued at some point thereafter. In 1931, the seasonal meeting at Cape May was reestablished under the care of Salem Quarterly Meeting.

In 1957, the meeting for worship at Cape May became part of Seaville Monthly Meeting.

 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Records of Cape May Preparative Meeting, 1794-1817, include: Men’s Minutes 1794-1817.

 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: Cape May Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends) -- Archives. Society of Friends -- New Jersey -- Cape May County. Cape May County (NJ) -- Genealogy. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

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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 1794-1817 1 vol. Pre HV 1250/P1.14.1

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

MR-Ph81 No Film