Hopewell Centre Monthly Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Hopewell Centre and Hopewell Monthly Meetings, 1754-ongoing. Includes men's and joint minutes 1759-1963, women's minutes 1813-1902, vital records 1754-1942, and miscellaneous 1778, 1851-1887, 1992-93.
Dates
- Creation: 1754-1993
Creator
Language of Materials
Records in English
Limitations on Accessing the Collection
Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.
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Biographical / Historical
Hopewell Monthly Meeting was established in 1735 by Chester Quarterly Meeting and was comprised of Opequan and Providence Meetings. During the Separation of 1828, the meeting was divided. A small number of Friends from Hopewell sided with the Orthodox branch and established Hopewell Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) by 1830. Both the Hicksite and Orthodox branches continued to use the meeting house, each meeting using one half of the building. In 1954, Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Orthodox merged with the Hicksite branch, forming Hopewell Monthly Meeting, United. In 1999, Hopewell Monthly Meeting and Winchester Centre Meeting merged to form a new body, Hopewell Centre Monthly Meeting; they meet in the old Hopewell meeting house.
In 1790 all meetings in Northern Virginia, Western Maryland, Nottingham Quarter, and meetings farther west in Pennsylvania were assigned to Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
Extent
4.5 Linear Feet
Arrangement
Divided into series: 1.Men's and Joint Minutes; 2.Women's Minutes; 3.Vital Records; 4.Miscellaneous.
Physical Location
This collection includes records stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. Please contact friends@swarthmore.edu for more information on depositing new records.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit, Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
General
The earliest minutes of Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1735-1759, were destroyed by fire in the eighteenth century.
Vol. 1.1 includes abstracts to minutes of West River (see Sandy Spring), Fairfax, and Crooked Run Monthly Meetings. Vol. 1.2 includes a report from a committee from Redstone. Vol. 1.6 includes a list of trustees, misc. committee reports and certificate of disownment. Vol. 1.7 includes misc. correspondence. Vol. 1.15 includes David Lupton's Queries. Vol. 2.3 includes certificate of disownment and removal. Vol. 3.3 includes births and deaths (indexed). Vol. 1.16 includes minutes following reunification of the meeting in 1961.
Subject
- Hopewell Centre Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Clearbrook, Va. : 1999- ) (Organization)
- Hopewell Centre Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Clearbrook, Va. : 1999- ) (Organization)
- Hopewell Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Clearbrook, Va.) (Organization)
- Hopewell Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : Clearbrook, Va.) (Organization)
- Hopewell Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox : Clearbrook, Va.) (Organization)
- Title
- Hopewell Centre Monthly Meeting Records
- Date
- 2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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