%eadnotat; ]> greenwmm GREENWICH MONTHLY MEETING (GREENWICH, NJ) 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 GREENWICH MONTHLY MEETING (Greenwich, NJ) 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 Records 1677-[ongoing] Greenwich Monthly Meeting of Friends 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

Greenwich Monthly Meeting was established in 1783 by Salem Quarterly Meeting. Its first business sessions were held in 1784. The Orthodox monthly meeting was discontinued in 1893; its members were transferred to Woodbury Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). The Hicksite monthly meeting was the forerunner of the current Greenwich Monthly Meeting.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Records of Greenwich Monthly Meeting, 1677-1998, as follows: pre-Separation, Hicksite, Orthodox and United minutes since 1784; registers of births and deaths, 1677-1987; marriage and membership records, 1784-1994; removals, 1787-1899; Orthodox women's meeting minutes, 1814-1893; Orthodox ministers and elders meeting minutes, 1828-1904; Orthodox financial records, 1907-1939.

 ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

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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:

Earlier/Later Meeting Names Greenwich Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) Greenwich Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1893) Subjects: Greenwich Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) -- Archives. Greenwich Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) -- Archives. Greenwich Monthly Meeting of Friends -- Archives. Society of Friends -- New Jersey -- Cumberland County. Cumberland County (N.J.) -- 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 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.

 Acknowledgments [women]1786-1821 5 items in folderPreSW RG2/Ph/G73

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

No Film No Film Births and deaths1677-1806 1 v. (p. 1-18, 71-78) + Index.PreSW Box 51

Register of births and deaths, 1677-1806. Contains births, 1677-1806, and deaths, 1733-1806. Accompanied by: separate index of names.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

MR-Ph218 No Film Births1728-1885 1 v. (p. 1-45, 1-7, [8]-[12]) Pre/OSW Box 51

Register of births of the Orthodox meeting, 1728-1885. Volume also contains deaths, 1798-1885, recorded in back of book.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

MR-Ph218 No Film Births, deaths and marriages1777-1892 1 v. (p. 1-6, 40-161). + Index (25 sheets in folder)Pre/OSW Box 51

Register contains: Births and deaths, 1777-1795, and meeting's copies of marriage certificates, 1784-1892. Accompanied by: separate index of names.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

MR-Ph218 No Film Record of Births and Deaths1748-1987 1 v.H/USW RG2/Ph/G73

Includes membership, 1886-1986.

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MR-Ph738 No Film Disownment 1829 1 item (in folder)OSW RG2/Ph/G73

Testimony against Lydia Bradway, extracted from the minutes of 1829 1mo1st.

Removed from folder containing Removals received, 1787-1877.

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No Film No Film Record of Marriage Certificates 1828-1924 1 vol. H SW RG2/Ph/G73

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MR-Ph738 No Film Membership 1851-1892 1 vol. O HV 1250/U4.9

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No Film No Film Removals received [women]1787-1877 30 items (in folder)Pre/OSW RG2/Ph/G73

Certificates of removal received by the Women's meeting, 1787-1877. Includes pre-Separation and Orthodox records.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

No Film No Film Removals Issued 1817-1899 1 vol. Pre/O HV 1250/P1.21

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MR-Ph218 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 1784-1985 10 v. Pre/H/O/USW Box 51

Minutes of Greenwich Monthly Meeting since 1784. Included are: pre- Separation Men's meeting minutes, 1784-1821; Orthodox men's meeting minutes, 1821-1893; minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting and joint sessions, 1827- 1862, 1863-1914, 1915-1948; United meeting minutes, 1948-1985. Volume for 1798-1821 includes removals, 1817-1819, recorded on p. 271-272 in opposite direction to minutes.

Some volumes are accompanied by separate indexes.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

MR-Ph221 (1784-98, 1798-1821, 1821-56 (O), 1857-93 (O)) MR-Ph219 (1827-1862 (H)) MR-Ph685 (1863-1914 (H)) MR-Ph220 (1915-48, 1948-63, 1963-78, 1978-1985) Film 21 (1784-98, 1798-1821, 1821-56 (O), 1857-93 (O)) Film 8Q (1863-1914 (H)) Minutes 1985-1998 1 v.USW RG2/Ph/G73

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

MR-Ph738 No film Women’s Meeting Minutes 1814-1828 1 v. (175 p.) ; 20 cm. Pre/O SW Box 52

Minutes of the monthly meeting of women Friends, 1814 12mo28-1828 7mo3. Contains pre-Separation and Orthodox women's minutes. Pertinent papers laid in.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

MR-Ph294 Film 21Q Minutes 1827-1892 2 v. H SW Box 52

Minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1827 11mo29-1884 2mo28 and 1884 2mo28 and 1884 4mo3-1892 9mo1 1892. Also included are extracts from first joint meeting of men and women Friends held 1892 9mo29 concerning women's business.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

MR-Ph685 Film 8Q Minutes 1828-1847 1 vol. O HV 1250/P1.15

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No Film No Film Minutes 1859-1876 1 vol. O HV 1250/P1.16

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

No Film No Film Minutes 1876-1893 1 vol. O HV 1250/P1.17

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No Film No Film Extracts of minutes and other papers1788-1829 7 items (in folder)Pre/OSW RG2/Ph/G73

Included are: returning certificate of Hannah Reeve and William Bradway from Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting, 1788 8mo4; travelling certificate for Susanna Bradway, 1807 10mo28; extract from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting minutes on disciplinary matters, 1789 9mo28; extract from minutes of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, 1814 4mo23; committee report on changing the beginning time of monthly meeting, 1823 10mo2; report on a disciplinary matter, 1829 10mo29; minute relating to Hicksite separation, ca. 1829.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

No Film 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.

 Minutes1828-1904 2 v.HSW RG2/Ph/G73

Minutes of the Hicksite meeting of ministers and elders, 1828 5m8-1896 9mo2 and 1896 12mo2-1904 9mo1. Loose minutes 1865 3mo1-1875 12mo2 laid in volume 1828-1896; loose minutes 1904 9mo1 laid in volume 1896-1904.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

No Film No Film Minutes 1873-1881 1 vol. O HV 1250/P1.20

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No Film No Film Confirmation of elder status1833 8mo14 1 item (in folder)OSW RG2/Ph/G73

Paper confirming Naomi Bacon's elder status, copied from the minutes of Salem Quarterly Meeting of Ministers and Elders held 8mo14, 1833.

Removed from folder containing Removals Received, 1787-1877.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

No Film No Film Financial Records Account book 1907-1939 1 v. ([30] p. used) H SW RG2/Ph/G73

Treasurer's account book, 1907-1939.

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No Film No Film Property Records Deeds and indentures1785-1912 20 items in folderPre/OSW RG2/Ph/G73

Also included are: plans of meeting house grounds and of school-house lot, surveyed by William S. Bacon, 1912 7mo.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

No Film No Film Miscellaneous Epistles received [women]1748-1848 & n.d. 38 items in folder Pre/O SW RG2/Ph/G73

Manuscript epistles received by the Women's Meeting, 1748-1848. Included are epistles from London Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, 1784, 1786-1791, 1793, 1797-1798, 1800-1801, 1803-1805, 1814-1818, 1821, 1823, 1826, 1839- 1841, 1843-1845, 1847-1848 and n.d.(2); epistles from Dublin Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, 1839 and 1841; epistles from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, 1831 and 1841; one unidentified epistle to Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, 1798 12mo10.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

No Film No Film Queries and answers to queries [women][18--] 7 items (in folder) O SW RG2/Ph/G73

Printed queries and manuscript answers to queries, all updated.

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No Film No Film Testimonies and reports [women] 1826-1843 6 items (in folder) Pre/O SW RG2/Ph/G73

Testimonies and reports concerning disciplinary matters, 1826-1843.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

No Film No Film Account of Suffering of Friends belonging to Greenwich Meeting 1755 1 folder Pre HV 1250/P1.21.1

Re refusal to bear arms

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No Film No Film