TABLE OF CONTENTS
Summary
SHORT HISTORY OF MEETING
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS
Restrictions
SEARCHING IN OUR ON-LINE CATALOGUE FOR RELATED MATERIALS
Administrative Information
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS Vital Records
Men's Meeting and
Joint
Women's
Meeting
Worship & Ministry and its
predecessors
Property
Records
Miscellaneous
Haverford College Quaker Collection
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
TRIPOD On-Line Catalog
Glossary
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RECORDS OF SOLEBURY MONTHLY MEETING (SOLEBURY,
PA)
A Finding Aid for its Meeting Records Deposited in Friends Historical
Library of Swarthmore College
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Summary
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| Meeting Name: |
Solebury Monthly Meeting (Society of
Friends) and Solebury Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1829)
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| Title |
Solebury Monthly Meeting Records |
| Dates: |
1785- |
| Quantity: |
7.5 linear ft. |
| Identification: |
RG2/Ph/S6 |
| Language: |
These
records are entirely in English
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| Repositories: |
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College &
Haverford College Library Quaker Collection
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SHORT HISTORY OF MEETING
Solebury Monthly Meeting was established in 1811 by Bucks Quarterly
Meeting out of Buckingham Monthly Meeting. The Orthodox branch was discontinued
in 1829, and its members were transferred to Buckingham Monthly Meeting.
Solebury Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) became a united meeting in 1951 in
affiliation with Burlington and Bucks Quarterly Meeting. It is currently
active.
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS
Records of Solebury Monthly Meeting, 1785-2006. Includes: minutes, 1811-1999; vital records, 1813-1949; women's meeting minutes,
1811-1886; Ministers and Elders
minutes, 1811-1829; deeds and other property records, 1799-1957;as well as
miscellaneous papers, 1766-2006.
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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.
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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
Solebury Monthly Meeting of Friends
(Hicksite : 1827-1951)
Solebury Monthly Meeting of Friends
(Orthodox : 1827-1829)
Subjects:
Solebury Monthly Meeting (Society of
Friends) -- Archives.
Solebury Monthly Meeting of Friends
(Hicksite : 1827-1951) -- Archives.
Solebury Monthly Meeting of Friends
(Orthodox : 1827-1829) -- Archives.
Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania --
Bucks County.
Bucks County (Pa.) -- Genealogy.
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Accession information
Deposit
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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.
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.
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Title/Date(s):
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Burials (Solebury, Pa.) 1866-1949 |
| Affiliation: |
H |
| Size: |
1 v. (unpacked) ; 33 x 10 cm. |
| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S6 3.1 |
Register of burials at Solebury, Pa., 1949. Volume
includes: descendants of Friends, 1860-1948; strangers, 1866-1947.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
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Title/Date(s):
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Marriage records 1813-1948 |
| Affiliation: |
Pre/H |
| Size: |
1 v. (268 p.). |
| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S6 3.3 |
Includes index.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
| SW: |
MR-Ph 588. |
| HV: |
Film 9Q |
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Title/Date(s):
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Marriages and removals 1828-1829 |
| Affiliation: |
O |
| Size: |
1 v. (6 p. used) ; 33 cm |
| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S61 3.1 |
Meeting's copies of marriage certificates and removals
issued, 1828-1829. Removals entered in back of book.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
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MR-Ph 584 |
| HV: |
No Film |
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Title/Date(s):
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Membership 1915-1944 |
| Affiliation: |
H |
| Size: |
1 v. (53 p.) ; 25 x 37 cm. |
| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S6 3.2 |
Membership register belonging to the Hicksite Meeting,
1915-1944. Includes information on deaths, marriages, removals.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
| SW: |
MR-Ph 588 |
| HV: |
Film 9Q |
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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.
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Title/Date(s):
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Minutes 1811-1942 |
| Affiliation: |
Pre/H |
| Size: |
4 v. ; 37 cm. or smaller. |
| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S6 1.1-1.4 |
Minute books of the Hicksite meeting, 1811-1839,
1840-1879, 1880-1922, 1922-1942. Volume 1811-1839 includes pre-Separation
meeting minutes, 1811- 1827.
Joint sessions in which men and women meet together for
business began in 1886.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
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MR-Ph 588, 590. |
| HV: |
Film 9Q (1811-1879) |
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Title/Date(s):
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Minutes 1943-1999 |
| Affiliation: |
H/U |
| Size: |
4 v. ; 37 cm. or smaller. |
| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S6 1.5-1.8 |
Minute books of the united meeting, 1951-1968, 1969-1977, 1977-1991 2mo, 1991 11mo-1999.
Volume for 1951-1968 contains Hicksite meeting minutes, 1943-1951. Missing minutes for 1991: 3mo-10mo, 12mo.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
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MR-Ph 590 (1943-1977) |
| HV: |
No Film |
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Title/Date(s):
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Minutes 1827-1829 |
| Affiliation: |
O |
| Size: |
1 v. (73 p.) ; 33 cm. |
| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S61 1.1 |
Minutes of the Orthodox men's meeting, 1827 9mo4-1829
6mo2.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
| SW: |
MR-Ph 589 |
| HV: |
Film 74 |
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Women's
Meeting
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Title/Date(s):
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Minutes [rough] 1811-1826 |
| Affiliation: |
Pre |
| Size: |
1 v. (190 p.) ; 22 cm. + Index. |
| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S6 2.1-2.2 |
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
| SW: |
MR-Ph 589 |
| HV: |
Film 74 |
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Title/Date(s):
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Minutes 1811-1886 |
| Affiliation: |
Pre/H |
| Size: |
2 v. ; 35 cm. or smaller. |
| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S6 2.3-2.4 |
Minute books of the women's meeting, 1811-1844 and
1844-1886. Volume 1811- 1844 contains pre-Separation women's minutes,
1811-1827. Joint sessions in which men and women meet together for business
begin in 1886.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
| SW: |
MR -Ph 591. |
| HV: |
Film 10Q |
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Title/Date(s):
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Minutes 1827-1828 |
| Affiliation: |
O |
| Size: |
1 v. (34 p.) ; 21 cm. + index (2 sheets in
folder).
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| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S61 2.1-2.2 |
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
| SW: |
MR-Ph 589 |
| HV: |
Film 74 |
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Title/Date(s):
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Minutes [copy] 1844-1865 |
| Affiliation: |
H |
| Size: |
1 v. (unpaged) ; 34 cm. |
| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S6 2.5 |
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
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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.
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Title/Date(s):
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Record of visits of ministering
Friends 1806-1818 |
| Affiliation: |
Pre |
| Size: |
1 v. ([12] p.) ; 19 cm. |
| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S6 4.1 |
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
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Title/Date(s):
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Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders Minutes 1823-1829 |
| Affiliation: |
Pre/O |
| Size: |
1 v. (18 p.) ; 21 cm. |
| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S61 4.1 |
Minutes of the Orthodox Meeting of Ministers and Elders,
1823 5mo2-1829 5mo1. Contains pre-Separation minutes, 1823-27. Printed queries
laid in.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
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Property
Records
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Title/Date(s):
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Deeds and other property records 1799-1957 |
| Affiliation: |
Pre/H/O/U |
| Size: |
16 items (in oversize folder). |
| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S6++ 5.1 |
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
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Miscellaneous
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Title/Date(s):
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Miscellaneous papers 1785-1956 and n.d. |
| Affiliation: |
Pre/H/O/U |
| Size: |
16 items (in folder). |
| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S6 6.1 |
Folder contains: Centennial Anniversary booklet, 1906;
150th Anniversary booklet, 1956; epistle from London Yearly Meeting, 1804;
extracts from Quarterly Meeting minutes, n.d.; receipts, 1785 and 1788; papers
regarding Samuel Smith's legacy, 1824; appointment of Trustees, 1915;
inventories and bills of sale of Francis Wilson's effects, 1788-1789;
meetinghouse draft, n.d.; photo of meetinghouse (unidentified), n.d.; reprints of anniversary booklets: 1906, 1956,
2006.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
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Title/Date(s):
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History of Friends Meeting-Solebury 1806-1881 n.d. |
| Affiliation: |
Pre/H |
| Size: |
1 v. (unpaged) ; 18 cm. |
| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S6 6.2 |
Chiefly extracts from monthly meeting minutes, 1811-1839.
Also contains the following: marriages [[abstract], 1813-1839; disownments for
marrying contrary to discipline, 1811-1839; acknowledgements received for
marrying contrary to discipline, 1813-1839; names of persons received into
membership, 1811-1839; disownments for various causes, 1813-1827; certificates
issued to proceed in marriage, 1811-1838; deceased ministers and elders,
1813-1827; minutes on spiritous liquors, 1811-1839; minutes concerning the
Hicksite Separation, 1827-1829 including numbers of Hicksite and Orthodox
Friends; census of Solebury Monthly Meeting, 1871; extracts from Buckingham
Monthly Meeting minutes, 1766-1775, etc. Compiled by Cyrus Livezey, ca. 1885,
chiefly from minutes of Solebury and Buckingham Monthly Meetings.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
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Title/Date(s):
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Solebury sentinel |
| Size: |
28 cm. |
| Repository: |
SW |
| Location: |
RG2/Ph/S6 6.3 |
Description based on: Seventh month, 1947 issue; title
from caption.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
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