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Creator: First Moravian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Date: 1747/1748 Contributing Institution: Moravian Archives Description: Although the cover suggests this diary covers a date span of 1747 to 1751, entries actually run from January 1, 1747 to December 31, 1748. Topics covered include: sermons preached; visits to church members, especially those who were ailing; baptisms and burials; meetings, conferences and love fea... View Full Item at Moravian Archives -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1796/1813 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1785/1786 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1772/1795 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1773/1840 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. Includes Orthodox removals. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1827~ Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A disownment was an involuntary termination of membership in a meeting, when a member of a meeting acted contrary to established discipline. This folder includes disownments from the Orthodox branch of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting after the Separation of 1827. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1827~ Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A disownment was an involuntary termination of membership in a meeting, when a member of a meeting acted contrary to established discipline. This folder includes disownments from the Orthodox branch of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting after the Separation of 1827. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1796/1807 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: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1782/1795 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: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1772/1782 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: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1785 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: Most Quaker meetings did not keep membership lists until the 19th century, but urban areas were an exception. Population movement into and out of the City necessitated more documentation. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1794/1806 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: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1781/1793 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: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1784/1794 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: Most Quaker meetings did not keep membership lists until the 19th century, but urban areas were an exception. Population movement into and out of the City necessitated more documentation. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1797/1800 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: Most Quaker meetings did not keep membership lists until the 19th century, but urban areas were an exception. Population movement into and out of the City necessitated more documentation. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1773/1846 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: Quakers married each other in the presence of witnesses. A marriage certificate was drawn up and signed by those in attendance. This document also included the names of the bride and groom, where the wedding took place, and what monthly meeting oversaw the proceedings. Some certificates list the... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1772/1780 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: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1772/1784 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: Most Quaker meetings did not keep membership lists until the 19th century, but urban areas were an exception. Population movement into and out of the City necessitated more documentation. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District Date: 1772/1806 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: In the 17th and 18th centuries, Friends kept records of the births and deaths of members only. If a child was born to two Quakers in good standing at the time of the birth they were considered "birthright." On the other hand, Quaker burial grounds were not generally select. Non-members could be i... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District Date: 1773/1805 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District Date: {1785,1789/1791,1793/1800} Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District Date: 1772/1801 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District Date: 1772/1778 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: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District Date: 1791/1796 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: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District Date: 1779/1786 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: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District Date: 1786/1791 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: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District Date: 1793 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A Travelling Certificate was issued by a meeting to a member in good standing (normally a recorded minister), allowing him or her to travel to other meetings to visit or preach. This is the certificate of William Savery. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District Date: 1789/1795 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. G38 Friends who might worship in several different meeting houses in a ... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District Date: 1795/1804 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: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District Date: 1772/1836 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: Quakers married each other in the presence of witnesses. A marriage certificate was drawn up and signed by those in attendance. This document also included the names of the bride and groom, where the wedding took place, and what monthly meeting oversaw the proceedings. Some certificates list the... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District Date: 1782/1789 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: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District Date: 1772/1806 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: In the 17th and 18th centuries, Friends kept records of the births and deaths of members only. If a child was born to two Quakers in good standing at the time of the birth they were considered "birthright." View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Date: 1772/1790 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A manumission was the legal document wherein an owner freed an enslaved person. As Quakers became convinced that the institution of slavery was contrary to their religious beliefs, they began to free their slaves. In 1773, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting made owning enslaved people a disownable offense. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Date: 1779/1795 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A Travelling Certificate was issued by a meeting to a member in good standing (normally a recorded minister), allowing him or her to travel to other meetings to visit or preach. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Date: 1792/1833 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: In the 17th and 18th centuries each quarterly meeting met four times a year and included representative of a nyumber of monthly meetings within a given region.It functioned as an intermediary between the local meetings and the Yearly Meeting, served as an appellate body for disciplinary matters,... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Date: 1692/1792 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: In the 17th and 18th centuries each quarterly meeting met four times a year and included representative of a nyumber of monthly meetings within a given region.It functioned as an intermediary between the local meetings and the Yearly Meeting, served as an appellate body for disciplinary matters,... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Date: 1723/1772 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: In the 17th and 18th centuries each quarterly meeting met four times a year and included representative of a nyumber of monthly meetings within a given region.It functioned as an intermediary between the local meetings and the Yearly Meeting, served as an appellate body for disciplinary matters,... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Date: 1772/1826 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: In the 17th and 18th centuries each quarterly meeting met four times a year and included representative of a nyumber of monthly meetings within a given region.It functioned as an intermediary between the local meetings and the Yearly Meeting, served as an appellate body for disciplinary matters,... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Date: 1682/1711 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: In the 17th and 18th centuries each quarterly meeting functioned as an intermediary between the local meetings and the Yearly Meeting, served as an appellate body for disciplinary matters, and considered questions too large for one meeting to resolve. A quarterly meeting also had the authority to... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia Date: 1677/1827 Contributing Institution: Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library Description: In the 17th and 18th centuries, Friends generally kept records of the births and deaths of only those who were members. If a child was born to two Quakers in good standing at the time of the birth they were considered "birthright." This volume is unusual because it includes not only members of th... View Full Item at Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia Date: 1794/1800 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia Date: 1785/1793 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia Date: 1783/1822 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. Includes index at front of volume. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia Date: 1773/1784 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia Date: 1772/1800 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. Includes an index at the front of the volume. View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia Date: 1770/1772 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. These are the original certificates, mounted in a volume at a l... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia Date: 1767/1770 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. These are the original certificates, mounted in a volume at a l... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia Date: 1764/1767 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. These are the original certificates, mounted in a volume at a l... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia Date: 1762/1764 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. These are the original certificates, mounted in a volume at a l... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections -
Creator: Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia Date: 1760/1762 Contributing Institution: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Description: A certificate of removal was a document given to persons who were transferring their membership from one monthly meeting to another. Their removal testified that they were members in good standing with the meetings they were leaving. These are the original certificates, mounted in a volume at a l... View Full Item at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
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