Somerton Monthly Meeting Records (including Chuckatuck/Nansemond, Western Branch, and Lower)
Scope and Contents
Records of Somerton Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Chuckatuck/Nansemond, Lower and Western Branch, 1673-1946. Includes men's and joint minutes 1673-1756, 1894, 1907-1946, women's minutes 1891-1894, and vital records 1673-1756, 1879-1949.
Includes minutes from Pagan Creek Monthly Meeting 1738-1763, and Lower Preparative Meeting 1894.
Dates
- Creation: 1673-1946
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.
Copyright and Rights Information
Information on reproduction policies available in the Library.
Biographical / Historical
This Meeting was originally in two parts, Chuckatuck sometimes called the Nansemond Monthly Meeting, in Nansemond County, and Pagan Creek in Isle of Wight County. Between the years of 1767-1856, these parts were re-grouped and were known as the Western Branch Monthly Meeting, then from 1856 to 1912 as Lower Monthly Meeting, and Somerton Monthly Meeting from 1912.
Southampton County meetings were divided and separated from the Lower Monthly Meeting in 1906. The southern meetings were organized as Black Creek Monthly Meeting, holding sessions at Bethel Virginia and, by 1917, at Sedley Virginia. Friends in the northern section of the county became members of Corinth Monthly Meeting.
Extent
2.25 Linear Feet
Arrangement
Divided into series: : 1.Vital Records; 2.Men's and Joint Minutes; 3.Women's Minutes.
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit, Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
Subject
- Chuckatuck Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Nansemond County, Va.) (Organization)
- Pagan Creek Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Isle of Wight County, Va.) (Organization)
- Western Branch Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Isle of Wight County, Va.) (Organization)
- Lower Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Somerton, Va.) (Organization)
- Lower Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Sedley, Va.) (Organization)
- Somerton Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Suffolk City, Va.) (Organization)
- Western Branch Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Isle of Wight County, Va.) (Organization)
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Quarterly Meeting on the Eastern Shore (Organization)
- Title
- Somerton Monthly Meeting Records (including Chuckatuck/Nansemond, Western Branch, and Lower)
- Date
- 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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