Middletown Preparative Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Middletown Preparative Meeting (Delaware County, Pennsylvania), 1787-1959, include: Hicksite births, 1841-1860; Hicksite Burials, 1787-1860; Hicksite membership, 1840-1867; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1821-1950; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1813-1919; Orthodox ministers and elders minutes, 1931-1959; account books, 1791-1815; Orthodox account books, 1837-1863; Orthodox women’s account books, 1852-1879; fire insurance records, 1940; Middletown First Day School minutes, 1905-1909.
Dates
- 1791-1909
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
Middletown Preparative Meeting (Delaware County, Pennsylvania) was established in Twelfth Month 1698/1699. In 1827, after the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. The Orthodox preparative meeting was transferred to Middletown Monthly Meeting (Delaware County, Pennsylvania) in 1931, and was discontinued in 1950, when its membership became identical with that of its parent monthly meeting. Middletown Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) was transferred to Providence Monthly Meeting in 1934. This preparative meeting is currently active.
Extent
4.25 Linear Feet
Language
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
- Delaware County (Pa.) -- Genealogy
- Middletown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1699-1827 : Delaware County, Pa.)
- Middletown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1699-1827 : Delaware County, Pa.)
- Middletown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1827- : Delaware County, Pa.)
- Middletown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox : 1827-1950 : Delaware County, Pa.)
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County
- Title
- RECORDS OF MIDDLETOWN PREPARATIVE MEETING AND MIDDLETOWN MEETING (LIMA, DELAWARE COUNTY, PA)
- Subtitle
- A Finding Aid for its Meeting Records Deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
- 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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