%eadnotat; ]> eastopm RECORDS OF EASTON PREPARATIVE MEETING AND EASTON MEETING (Masonville, NJ). A Finding Aid for its Meeting Records Deposited in the Haverford College Library Quaker Collection Records Services Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2003 Easton Preparative Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Records Services Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Summary Records 1804-1944. Easton Preparative Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. 1.25 linear ft. (HV). 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

An indulged meeting at Easton was organized under Evesham Monthly Meeting in 1804. The meeting for worship and preparative meeting were established in 1810 by Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting.

The Orthodox preparative meeting was discontinued in 1944.

There was no Hicksite preparative meeting; Easton Meeting (H) was discontinued in 1859.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Records of the Orthodox branch of Easton Preparative Meeting, 1810-1944, include: men's minutes, 1810-1944; women's minutes, 1810-1900; financial records, 1870-1899; trustees' school fund account book, 1824-1900.

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: Easton Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1804-1859). Easton Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox : 1804-1944). Society of Friends -- New Jersey -- Burlington County. Burlington County (NJ) -- 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 Haverford (HV) 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:

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 1810-1847 1 vol. Pre/O HV 1250/M3.8.1