Scope and Contents Records of the Chester Monthly Meetings in Chester and Media, Pennsylvania. Includes: births, deaths, marriage certificates, and other vital records, 1677-1961; men's, women's, and joint minutes, 1681-1984; records of the Meeting of Worship and Ministry and Overseers and its predecessors; financial records; and committee and other miscellaneous records. Of additional interest are pre-Separation accounts of sufferings, 1778-1783; manumissions, 1776-1780; and a series of scrapbooks assembled...

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Records include: pre-Separation men's meeting minutes, 1804-1813; Hicksite women's minutes, 1843-1899; a pre-Separation account book, 1781-1875; pre-Separation trustees' minutes, 1802-1823.

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Pre-Separation, Hicksite, Orthodox and United records include: Minutes since 1684; vital records since 1679; women's meeting minutes, 1715-1902; property records; financial records and miscellaneous papers, 1776-1801 and 1959-2011.

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Records include: Minutes of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 1813-1819; a pre-Separation subscription book, 1810-1813. Minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting and later, of joint sessions of men and women Friends, 1850-1914; minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1850-1877; Minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting, 1807-1827; minutes of the Orthodox men's meeting, 1827-1834; school fund account book, 1786-1827; poor fund account book, 1791-1826.

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Records include: minutes since 1684; vital records since 1670; women's minutes; ministers and elders' minutes; financial and property records, etc.

Scope and Contents Records of Haverford Preparative Meeting, 1741-1950, include: membership lists, 1783-1796, 1809-1827 and 1826 (with Radnor Monthly Meeting Births and Deaths [copy], 1685-1924); Orthodox membership, 1783-1863; membership list, 1931 (with Minutes, 1918-1935); Hicksite men’s meeting minutes, 1839-1948 and 1948-1950 (with Old Haverford Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1950-1955); women's meeting minutes, 1805-1807 (with Radnor Monthly Meeting women's minutes, 1812-1835); Hicksite women’s meeting...

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Records of Media Monthly Meeting and its immediate predecessor, Chester Monthly Meeting (Media, Pa.) from 1948. Includes: vital records to 2009, minutes, 1948-2013/2015-18, financial records, committee records, and miscellaneous. Of particular interest are the records of the Sanctuary Committee, 1986-1990, and blueprints of the Media meetinghouse

The pre 1948 records of Chester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) have been described with the records of Chester Monthly Meeting.

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Records of the Orthodox preparative meeting include: minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1878-1949; women's minutes, 1878-1900; membership list, 1878; financial records, 1878-1908; minutes of the Juvenile Auxiliary Committee, 1912-1913; miscellaneous papers, 1913-1934.

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Records of Middletown Monthly Meeting, 1931-1995, include: marriage certificates, 1933-1955; joint meeting minutes, 1931-1997; worship and ministry minutes, 1960-1991; committee records, 1970s-1980s; miscellaneous, 1935-1995.

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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.