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Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Western District Date: 1814/1830 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: The monthly business meeting is the basic unit of Quaker organization. In the 17th and 18th centuries, only members in good standing could participate. Men and women met separately to conduct business but worshipped together. The business meeting usually included Friends who might worship in seve... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Date: 1780/1798 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: Yearly Meetings are large autonomous bodies of Quakers, meeting for several days once annually to conduct business, formulate the discipline, receive reports and concerns from its constituent meetings, review the state of the Society, and communicate with other yearly meetings and non-Quaker orga... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Date: 1799/1827 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: Yearly Meetings are large autonomous bodies of Quakers, meeting for several days once annually to conduct business, formulate the discipline, receive reports and concerns from its constituent meetings, review the state of the Society, and communicate with other yearly meetings and non-Quaker orga... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Date: 1747/1779 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: Yearly Meetings are large autonomous bodies of Quakers, meeting for several days once annually to conduct business, formulate the discipline, receive reports and concerns from its constituent meetings, review the state of the Society, and communicate with other yearly meetings and non-Quaker orga... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Date: 1681/1746 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: Yearly Meetings are large autonomous bodies of Quakers, meeting for several days once annually to conduct business, formulate the discipline, receive reports and concerns from its constituent meetings, review the state of the Society, and communicate with other yearly meetings and non-Quaker orga... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Yearly Meeting of Women Friends (Philadelphia and Pa.) Date: 1681/1814 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: Yearly Meetings are large autonomous bodies of Quakers, meeting for several days once annually to conduct business, formulate the discipline, receive reports and concerns from its constituent meetings, review the state of the Society, and communicate with other yearly meetings and non-Quaker orga... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: St. George's Methodist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Date: 1819/1830 Contributing Institution: St. George's United Methodist Church Description: Minutes of the St. George's Board of Trustees from 1819 to 1830. Each entry notes the date and place of the meeting, members present, and business discussed. Business includes, but is not limited to: the election of trustees and appointment of acting committees, superintendents, stewards, and col... View Full Item at St. George's United Methodist Church -
Creator: Congregation Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pa.) Date: 1813/1864 Contributing Institution: Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia, PA Description: The Society for the Visitation of the Sick and Mutual Assistance started as "the Hebra," or a sacred society that ensures the bodies of deceased Jews are prepared for burial according to Jewish tradition and protected from desecration before burial. The new name was adopted around 1850 and made o... View Full Item at Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia, PA -
Creator: St. Peter's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Date: 1832/1852 Contributing Institution: St. Peter's Episcopal Church Description: The vestry is the governing body of an Episcopal church; it is comprised of the rector and members of the congregation elected by other congregants. The vestry minutes begin with a copy of the 1832 Act by the Pennsylvania legislature which separated Christ Church and St. Peter's Church into two ... View Full Item at St. Peter's Episcopal Church -
Creator: St. Peter's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Date: 1852/1871 Contributing Institution: St. Peter's Episcopal Church Description: The vestry is the governing body of an Episcopal church; it is comprised of the rector and members of the congregation elected by other congregants. This bound volume contains the dates, members present and business discussed at St. Peters vestry meetings from 1852 to 1871. Topics include but ar... View Full Item at St. Peter's Episcopal Church