%eadnotat; ]> germapm RECORDS OF GERMANTOWN PREPARATIVE MEETING AND GERMANTOWN 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 GERMANTOWN PREPARATIVE MEETING AND GERMANTOWN 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 Summary Germantown Preparative Meeting Records 1705-1956 Germantown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox) and Germantown Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1877-1914). 11.75 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 Records entirely in English SHORT HISTORY OF MEETING

A meeting for worship at Germantown was organized ca. 1682. It was attached to Abington Monthly Meeting by 1687. Germantown Preparative Meeting was established by 1728. In 1816, it was transferred to Frankford Monthly Meeting. The Orthodox preparative meeting was transferred to Germantown Monthly Meeting in 1906. It began to meet on an annual basis in 1907. Currently the preparative meeting functions as a body of trustees for the monthly meeting. Germantown Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) was merged into Frankford Preparative Meeting in 1827 and then transferred to Green Street Monthly Meeting. In 1877, a new preparative meeting was established by Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting after the dissolution of Frankford Preparative Meeting. In 1914, at the removal of Green Street Monthly Meeting to Germantown, this preparative meeting was discontinued.

 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Records include: Minutes of the pre-Separation and Orthodox men's meeting and later of joint sessions with women, 1756-1939; Hicksite men's minutes, 1877-1914; pre-Separation and Orthodox women's meeting minutes, 1784-1917; Hicksite women's minutes, 1877-1880; Orthodox account books 1739-1812, 1832-1938; Hicksite account books,1877-1914; Orthodox receipt books, 1859-1895; Orthodox membership, 1799-1843; Hicksite membership, 1807-1812, 1888-1911; Orthodox women's records, 1862-1902; building committee financial records, 1705, 1867-1871; property records (blueprints, 1901); Germantown Friends School minutes, accounts, and attendance, 1845-1905; library committee minutes and account books, 1862-1945; trustees meeting minutes and accounts, 1859-1956.

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Collection is open for research. Access is through microfilm, if available.

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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: Germantown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox) -- Archives Germantown Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1877-1914) -- Archives Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. Philadelphia (Pa) -- Genealogy. 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 1807-1812 1 vol. Pre HV 1250/N5.19.1

Film covers 1746-1812

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MR-Ph185 Film 124A Deaths 1821-1828 1 vol. Pre/O HV 1250/J4.26

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MR-Ph83 No Film Membership 1829-1843 1 vol. O HV 1250/J4.26

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MR-Ph83 No Film Membership [Women] 1862-1902 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.5

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No Film No Film Membership 1888-1911 1 v. ([30] p.) H SW RG2/Ph/G4 3.1

1880 membership list with revisions to 1911 inclusive.

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No Film No Film 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 1756-1797 1 vol. Pre HV 1250/N5.1

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MR-Ph185 Film 124A Minutes 1798-1860 1 vol. Pre/O HV 1250/N5.2

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MR-Ph185 Film 124A Minutes 1860-1896 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.7

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No Film No Film Minutes 1896-1939 1 folder (unbound pages) O HV 1250/N5.2.1

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No Film No Film Minutes 1877-1914 1 v. (269 p.) H SW RG2/Ph/G4 1.1

Minutes of Germantown Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1877 3m14 - 1914 8mo16. Includes: Membership list, 1877; extracts from Frankford Preparative Meeting minute book (1827-1876) chiefly relating to Germantown Preparative Meeting's property; extracts from Green Street Monthly Meeting minutes relating to establishment of establishment of Green St. Preparative meeting (1876-1877); inscriptions on tombstones in graveyard (1830-1868), copied by Howard W. Lloyd, 1895 8mo28; information on births and deaths interspersed throughout minute book. Includes index.

Joint sessions in which men and women met together for businesss began on 1880 4mo14.

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No Film No Film Minutes [rough] 1877-1914 4 v. + 1 folder (54 items) H SW RG2/Ph/G4 1.2-1.6

Rough or clerk's copies of minutes as follows: 1877-1890; 1891-1904; 1904- 1912; 1912-1914. Accompanying folder includes the following: correspondence, financial records, membership lists (1908,1909) removed from between the pages of volume 1904-1912.

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Minutes 1784-1802 1 vol. Pre HV 1250/N5.2.2

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No Film No Film Minutes 1802-1850 1 vol. Pre/O HV 1250/N5.3

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No Film No Film Minutes 1850-1917 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.4

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No Film No Film Minutes 1877-1880 1 v. ([47] p.) ; 21 cm. H SW RG2/Ph/G4 2.1

Minutes of the meeting of women Friends, 1877 3mo14-1880 4mo14. Also included are extracts from the minutes of Green St. Monthly Meeting relating to the establishment of Germantown Preparative Meeting, 1876-1877.

Joint Sessions with men began on 4mo14, 1880.

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No Film No Film Financial Records

Account Book 1705 1 vol. Pre HV 1250/O1.3

Includes deeds written by Pastorius.

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No Film No Film Account Book 1739-1812 1 vol. Pre Pre 1250/N5.9.1

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MR-Ph185 Film 124A Account Book 1832-1848 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.11

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No Film No Film Account Book 1848-1855 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.21

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No Film No Film Account Book 1855-1859 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.22

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No Film No Film Account Book 1859-1880 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.13

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No Film No Film Account books 1874-1914 3 v. ; 27 cm. or smaller H SW RG2/Ph/G4 4.1-4.3

Account books as follows: 1874-1898, 1898-1913, 1913-1914. Volume 1874-1878 includes accounts of Germantown Particular Meeting, 1874-1877.

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No Film No Film Account Book 1876-1868 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.13

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No Film No Film Account Book 1880-1908 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.10

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No Film No Film Account Book 1908-1919 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.12

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No Film No Film Account Book 1919-1930 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.14

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No Film No Film Account Book 1930-1938 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.15

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No Film No Film Receipt Book 1859-1872 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.25

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No Film No Film Receipt Book 1867-1871 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.25

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No Film No Film Receipt Book 1872-1884 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.26

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No Film No Film Receipt Book 1884-1895 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.27

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No Film No Film Subscription Book [Women] 1857-1863 1 vol. O HV 1250/N3.1

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No Film No Film Subscription Book [Women] 1864-1874 1 vol. O HV 1250/N3.1

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No Film No Film Subscription Book [Women] 1875-1899 1 vol. O HV 1250/N3.1

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No Film No Film Subscription Book - Quota 1860-1876 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.23

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No Film No Film Trustees Minutes 1901-1933 2 v. O HV 1250/N5.8-.9

Minutes of Trustees, 1901-1910 and 1911-1933.

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No Film No Film Trustees Account Books 1859-1946 3 v. O HV 1250/N5.16-.18

Account books of the Trustees, 1859-1901, 1901-1941, and 1941-46.

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No Film No Film Trustees' Securities Register 1889-1897 1 vol. O HV 1250/N5.17.1

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No Film No Film Account book 1906-1914 1 v. (8, [8] p.) ; 25 cm. H SW RG2/Ph/G4 4.4

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No Film No Film Minutes of Trustees (Directors) 1901-1934 2 v. O HV 1250/N5.8-.9

Minutes of Trustees - Directors, 1901-1911 and 1912-1934. Film of minutes, 1935-1956, is available at HV on Film 122B

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No Film No Film Trustees – Educational Trust Minutes 1863-1900 2 v. O HV 1250/O2.10, /02.7

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No Film No Film Trustees – Educational Trust Minutes 1864-1883 1 v. O HV 1250/O2.09

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No Film No Film Trustees – Educational Trust Account Book 1863-1901 1 vol. O HV 1250/O2.9

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Blueprints 1901 1 item O HV 1250/O1.3.3

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No Film No Film Property Committee Minutes 1889-1936 2 v. O HV 1250/O1.3.1

Minutes of the Property Committee, 1889-1903 and 1904-1936.

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No Film No Film Committees Germantown Friends School – School Committee Account Book 1845-1882 O HV 1250/O2.8

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No Film No Film Account Book – Building Fund 1869-1871 O HV 1250/O2.8

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No Film No Film Attendance Register 1864-1878 O HV 1250/O2.6

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No Film No Film Attendance Register 1878-1891 O HV 1250/O2.4

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No Film No Film Attendance Register 1891-1905 O HV 1250/O2.5

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No Film No Film Minutes 1845-1875 O HV 1250/O2.1

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No Film No Film Minutes 1875-1899 O HV 1250/O2.2

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No Film No Film Library Committee Account Book 1862-1874 O HV 1250/O2.8

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No Film No Film Account Book 1874-1896 O HV 1250/O2.13

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No Film No Film Account Book 1897-1920 O HV 1250/O2.14

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No Film No Film Account Book 1920-1935 O HV 1250/O2.15

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No Film No Film Account Book 1935-1945 O HV 1250/O2.16

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No Film No Film Minutes 1874-1916 O HV 1250/O2.11

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No Film No Film Minutes 1916-1939 O HV 1250/O2.12

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No Film No Film Tea Meetings Committee Minutes 1901-1905 O HV 1250/N4.18

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