%eadnotat; ]> horshmm RECORDS OF HORSHAM MONTHLY MEETING (HORSHAM, PA) A Finding Aid for its Meeting Records Deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Quaker Collection Records Services Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2003 RECORDS OF HORSHAM MONTHLY MEETING (HORSHAM, PA) A Finding Aid for its Meeting Records Deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Quaker Collection Records Services Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Summary Records 1713-[ongoing]. Horsham Monthly Meeting of Friends 5.5 linear ft. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College & Haverford College Quaker Collection For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Libraries' online catalog http//tripod.brynmawr.edu SHORT HISTORY OF MEETING

Horsham Monthly Meeting was established in 1782 out of Abington Monthly Meeting by Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting. It was transferred to Abington Quarterly Meeting in 1786. Two meetings emerged at the time of the Separation of 1827. Horsham Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1827, and its members attached to Abington Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). The Hicksite monthly meeting is the forerunner of the current Horsham Monthly Meeting.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Records of Horsham Monthly Meeting, 1713-1996, include: records of births and deaths, 1713-1901; marriage and membership records, 1713-1992; removals issued and received, 1783-1940; men’s and joint meeting minutes, 1782-1996; Orthodox men’s meeting minutes, 1827-1828; Hicksite women's minutes, 1782-1793, 1819-1885; Ministers and Elders minutes, 1786-1964; account books, 1782-1956; Hicksite and United Overseers' minutes, 1846-1976; School Committee minutes and account books, 1783-1895.

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

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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

Earlier/Later Meeting Names Horsham Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox 1827-1828)Horsham Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite 1827-1955) Subjects Horsham Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox 1827-1828) -- Archives. Horsham Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite 1827-1955) -- Archives. Horsham Monthly Meeting of Friends -- Archives. Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Montgomery County. Montgomery County (Pa.) -- 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.

Births 1713-1901 1 v. ; 34 cm. Pre/H SW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 76]

Record of the births and deaths of Horsham Monthly meeting, 1713-1901. Included are : Births, 1713 -1901 and Deaths, 1768-1889. Book commenced in 1782; contains pre-Separation and Hicksite records. With: Deaths, 1768-1889.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph256 HV: No Film Marriage records 1782-1813 1 v. ; 34 cm. Pre SW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 72]

Meeting's copies of marriage certificates, 1782-1813. Includes index.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph239 HV: No Film Marriage records 1814-1828. 1 v. ; 33 cm. Pre/O SW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 72]

Meeting's copy of marriage certificates, 1814-1828. Contains pre-Separation and Orthodox marriage records.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph239 HV: No Film Marriage records 1827-1953 4 v. ; 33 cm. or smaller. H SW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 72]

Meeting's copy of marriage certificates, 1827-1844, 1844-1871, 1871-1894, 1895-1953. Book for 1844-1871 includes index. Book for 1871-1894 indexed to 1881 only.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph256 (1827-71) SW: MR-Ph257 (1871-94) SW: MR-Ph258 (1895-1953) HV: No Film Membership 1713-1947 1 v. ; 44 x 37 cm. Pre/H/U SW RG2/Ph/H65

Membership registers of Horsham Monthly Meeting, 1713-1947. Includes information on births, deaths, marriages, removals, etc.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph 258 HV: No Film Membership 1845-1884 1 v. ; 32 cm. H SW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 70]

Record of the names of members of Horsham Monthly Meeting compiled by the Overseers for their use in 1845, with corrections to 1884.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph256 HV: No Film Membership 1883-1928 1 v. ; 33 cm. H SW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 76]

Membership book, 1883-1928. Contains the following lists: 1883-1914; 1897- 1912; 1908-1921; 1922-1928.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph257 HV: No Film Removals issued 1783-1821 1 v. ; 33 cm. Pre SW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 71]

Meeting's copies of Certificates of removal issued for members transferring to other meetings, 1783-1821.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph259 HV: No Film Removals issued 1821-1940 1 v. ; 33 cm. Pre/H SW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 71]

Meeting's copy of certificates of removal issued for members transferring to other meetings, 1821-1940. Includes pre-Separation removals, 1821-1827.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph258 HV: No Film Removals received 1880-1940 1 v. ; 36 cm. H SW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 76]

Copies of certificates of removal in behalf of persons transferring their membership to Horsham Monthly Meeting.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph258 HV: No Film Membership 1926-1992 4 v. H/U SW RG2/Ph/H65

Membership: 1926-28, 1936; 1937-54; 1940-59, 1963; 1940-92.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: No Film HV: 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.

Minutes1782-1824 3 v. ; 34 cm. + 3 indexes (in binder)PreSW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 70]

Minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting, 1782-1794, 1795-1806, 1806- 1824.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: MR-Ph256 (1782-1806) SW: MR-Ph 259 (1806-24) HV: No Film Minutes 1824-1954 5 v. ; 39 cm. or smaller. + 2 indexes. Pre/H SW RG2/Ph/H65

Minute books of the Hicksite meeting, 1824-1846, 1846-1879, 1879-1905, 1906 -1931, 1931-1954. Volume for 1824-1846 includes pre-Separation meeting minutes, 1824-1827. Accompanied by: Indexes, 1824-1905 and 1846-1879.

Joint sessions in which men and women meet together for business begin on 10mo28 1885.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph259 (1824-1905) SW: MR-Ph260 (1906-54) SW: MR-Ph258 (indices) HV: No Film Minutes 1827-1828 1 vol. (15 p.) O HV 1250/Q2.1

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: MR-Ph142 HV: Film 58 Minutes 1953-1996 8 v. H/U SW RG2/Ph/H65

Minutes, 1953-1996. Includes 1953-61, 1962-67, 1967-71, 1972-76, 1976-80, 1976-89 (draft), 1981-90, 1990-96.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: No Film HV: No Film Women's Meeting Minutes 1782-1793 1 v. ; 16 x 20 cm. and Index (11 sheets in folder) Pre SW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 70]

Minutes of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 1782 8mo29 to 1793 3mo27. Accompanied by: Index to women's minutes, 1782-1793 and men's minutes, 1827 -1828.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: MR-Ph142 HV: Film 58 Minutes 1819-1885 3 v. ; 35 cm. or smaller Pre/H SW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 70]

Minute book of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1819-1842, 1842-1874, 1874- 1885. Volume for 1819-1842 includes pre-Separation women's minutes, 1819- 1827 and list of removals issued and received, 1831-1841. Printed minute on the subject of marriage, 1875 9mo1, laid in.

Joint session in which men and women meet together for business begin on 10mo28, 1885.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph260 (1819-74) SW: MR-Ph261 (1874-85) HV: 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.

Minutes 1786-1874 1 v. ; 33 cm. Pre/H SW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 68]

Minute books of the Ministers and Elders' Meeting, 1786 5mo4 - 1874 10mo27. Includes minutes of the pre-Separation meeting, 1786-1827.

Meeting established in 1786.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph261 HV: No Film Minutes 1876-1944 1 v. (220 p.) ; 32 cm. H SW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 68]

Minute books of the Meeting of Ministry and Counsel, 1875 1mo26-1944 12mo6. Includes minutes of the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1876- 1918. Meeting name changed to Ministry and Counsel in 10mo30 1918.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph261 HV: No Film Minutes 1945-1964 1 v. H/U SW RG2/Ph/H65

Minute books of the Meeting of Ministry and Counsel, 1945-1964.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: No Film HV: No Film Financial Records Account book 1782-1898 1 v. (101 p.) ; 42 x 17 cm. Pre/H SW RG2/Ph/H65

Treasurer's book of Horsham Monthly Meeting, 1782-1898. Includes pre- Separation account book, 1782-1809 and poor fund account book, 1799-1898.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph261 HV: No Film Account book 1938-1956 1 v. ; 26 x 32 cm. H SW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 76]

Treasurer's book of the Hicksite and United meetings, 1938 - 1956.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph261 HV: No Film Account book 1937-1971 1 v.H/USW RG2/Ph/H65

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: No Film HV: No Film Annual, Treasurers', and Budget Reports 1961-1975 1 v.USW RG2/Ph/H65

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: No Film HV: No Film Trustees Records 1971-1994 2 v.USW RG2/Ph/H65

Trustees records, 1971, 1980-85 & 1971, 1990-94.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: No Film HV: No Film Papers concerning Walton's legacy for the schooling of poor children 1898- 1941 3 items (in folder) H SW RG2/Ph/H65

In box of miscellaneous papers, 1813-1941.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph262 HV: No Film Property Records Agreement between Bucks County Railway Company and trustees of Horsham Meeting property 1896 1 item (in folder)HSW RG2/Ph/H65

In miscellaneous papers box, 1813-1941.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: MR-Ph262 HV: No Film Papers pertaining to Horsham Meeting farm 1813-1938 9 items in folder Pre/H SW RG2/Ph/H65

Included are: lease for 1 acre and 30 perches, a part of Horsham Meeting property to Francis Smith, 1813 4mo1; draft of survey and quotations made to ascertain southeastern line of Horsham Meeting land, 1840 6mo12 and 9mo[21?]; settlement by arbitration of disputed boundary line of 50 acres, 1841; draft of Horsham meeting's land, surveyed 10mo12 and 10mo17, 1857 and accompanying note from surveyor, Jacob P. Tyson, 1857 10mo27; extracts from minutes of Horsham Preparative Meeting authorizing appointment of trustees for ground rents and deeds of trust, 1927 11mo27; deed: Hugh Warner[et al] trustees to Isaac Warner[et al], 1897 7mo21; assignment of ground rents: Albert Comly to trustees, 1937 May 3; deed: Edwin S. Wood, surviving trustee to Horsham Monthly Meeting of Friends, Inc., 1938 10mo26.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph262 HV: No Film Philadelphia ground rent information 1760-1871, ca. 1910 1 item (7 sheets in folder) Pre/H SW RG2/Ph/H65

Summary of deeds and ground rent charges, 1760-1871, probably compiled ca. 1910. Includes notations and revisions in paper.

Typescript.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: MR-Ph262 HV: No Film Committees Nominating Committee Records ca. 1959-1992 SW 1 folderURG2/Ph/H65

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: No Film HV: No Film Overseers Correspondence 1962-1965 SW 1 folderURG2/Ph/H65

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SW: No Film HV: No Film Minutes1846-1951 2v. ; 27 cm. or smallerHSW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 76]

Minutes of the Overseers' Meeting, 1846 1mo22-1910 8mo31 and 1911 3mo1-1951 10mo16.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: MR-Ph261 HV: No Film Minutes 1951-1976 2 v. ; 29 cm. or smaller H SW RG2/Ph/H65

Minutes of the Overseers' Meeting, 1951 11mo20-1966 11mo22 and 1967 1mo17- 1976 11mo15. Volume for 1951-1966 includes Hicksite minutes, 1951-1955 and a membership list, revised 2mo 1966.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s)

SW: No Film HV: No Film School CommitteeAccount book : School fund 1828-1894 1 v. ; 21 cm.HSW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 76]

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: MR-Ph261 HV: No Film Minutes 1783-1895 3 v. + 1 folderPre/HSW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 76]

Minutes of the School Committee and its predecessors, 1792 11mo 25-1816 4mo 5, 1816 7mo6-1849 12mo5 and 1879 10mo29-1895 7mo10. Volume for 1792-1816 includes minutes of a preparative meeting concerning the appointment of the Committee, 1783-1790. Volume for 1816-1849 includes pre-Separation minutes, 1816-1827.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: MR-Ph262 HV: No Film Miscellaneous Cemetery records ca. 1980 SW 1 folderURG2/Ph/H65

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SW: No Film HV: No Film Clerks correspondence 1957-1966 SW 1 folderURG2/Ph/H65

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SW: No Film HV: No Film First Day School Minutes 1881-1893 SW 2 v.HRG2/Ph/H65

First Day School minutes, 1881-1890 & 1890-1893.

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SW: No Film HV: No Film Horsham Friends' School Association Account book1913-1938 1 v. ; 27 cm.HSW RG2/Ph/H65 [Box 76]

Account book of treasurer of the Horsham Friends' School Association, 1913- 1938.

Horsham Friends School Association was an alumni organization.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW: MR-Ph262 HV: No Film Miscellaneous records 1937-1967 SW 1 folderH/URG2/Ph/H65

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SW: No Film HV: No Film Sat-Niters (Club) 1949-1956 SW 1 folderH/URG2/Ph/H65

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SW: No Film HV: No Film