Woodbury Preparative Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Woodbury Preparative Meeting, 1770-1954, include: Hicksite minutes, 1770-1920; Orthodox minutes, 1828-1954; Hicksite women's minutes, 1828-1893; Hicksite financial and legal records, 1840-1951; and a book list of the library.
Dates
- Creation: 1770-1951
Creator
- Preparative Meeting of Friends held at Woodbury (1717-1827) (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 meeting for worship at Woodbury was established before 1710 under Newton [Haddonfield] Monthly Meeting. A preparative meeting was established in 1717. The meetings became part of Woodbury Monthly Meeting in 1784. The Orthodox preparative meeting was discontinued in 1954. The Hicksite preparative meeting was consolidated with the reunited Woodbury Monthly Meeting in 1954.
Extent
6.25 Linear Feet
Language
English
Physical Location
This collection includes records stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
Subject
- Preparative Meeting of Friends held at Woodbury (1717-1827) (Organization)
- Woodbury Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1954) (Organization)
- Woodbury Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1954) (Organization)
- Preparative Meeting of Friends held at Woodbury (1717-1827) (Organization)
- Title
- Woodbury Preparative Meeting Records
- Date
- 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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