Great Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Great Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, 1682-1843, include: vital records, 1682-1837; men's minutes, 1726-1843; women's minutes, 1788-1843; ministers' and elders' minutes, 1817-1830.
Dates
- Creation: 1726-1843.
Creator
- Great Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) (Organization)
Limitations on Accessing the Collection
Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.
Copyright and Rights Information
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.
Biographical / Historical
A monthly meeting for Great Egg Harbor and Cape May was established in 1726 by Salem Quarterly Meeting. It was transferred to Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting in 1794. Cape May Meeting was transferred to the newly-formed Maurice River Monthly Meeting in 1804. In 1806, the monthly meeting began to circulate to Galloway. Great Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting was discontinued in 1843; its members were transferred to Haddonfield Monthly Meeting.
This meeting is often referred to as "Egg Harbor."
Extent
1 Linear Feet
Language
English
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
Subject
- Great Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) (Organization)
- Great Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) (Organization)
- Great Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) (Organization)
- Title
- Great Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting Records
- Date
- 2003
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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