RECORDS OF RAHWAY PREPARATIVE MEETING AND RAHWAY MEETING (RAHWAY, NJ) A Finding Aid for its Meeting Records Deposited in Haverford College Quaker Collection

A meeting for worship at Rahway was established in 1742 by Woodbridge [Rahway and Plainfieled] Monthly Meeting. A preparative meeting was established in 1761. In 1769, Woodbridge Preparative Meeting removed to Rahway and was probably absorbed by Rahway Preparative Meeting at that time. The Orthodox preparative meeting and meeting for worship were discontinued in 1910; their members were transferred to Trenton Preparative Meeting of Chesterfield Monthly Meeting (O). Rahway Preparative Meeting (H) merged with Shrewsbury Preparative Meeting to form Shrewsbury and Rahway Preparative Meeting in 1888. The preparative meeting was discontinued circa 1889.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Records of Rahway Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), include: minutes, 1852-1910; women's minutes, 1838-1908; financial records, 1828-1897; school committee minutes, 1875-1888.

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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:

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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.

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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.

Title/Date(s):	Minutes 1852-1868
Affiliation:	O
Size:	1 v.
Repository:	HV
Location:	1250/U4.15