Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. II
New Jersey and Pennsylvania Monthly Meetings
by William Wade Hinshaw
originally published by Edwards Brothers, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1938
Almost no class of records, religious or secular, has been kept as
meticulously as the monthly meeting records of the Religious Society of Friends
(Quakers). The oldest such records span three centuries of American history and
testify to a general movement of population that extended from New England and
the Middle Atlantic states southward to Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia;
then west to Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The importance of these records cannot
be overstated. Not until recently have the vital statistics of Quakers been
recorded in civil record offices. Thus, for more than two centuries, the only
vital records identifying these people are to be met with in the Quaker records
themselves. Fortunately, the monthly meeting records contain extensive lists of
births, marriages, and deaths, as well as details of the removal of members from
one meeting to another.
Painstakingly developed from these monthly
meeting records, Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy is
the primere puplication of Quaker genealogy. In its production,
thousands of records were located and abstracted into a uniform and
intelligible system of notation. The data gathered in these volumes of
the Encyclopedia are arranged by meeting, then alphabetically by family
name, and chronologically thereunder. This is One Volume - Volume
III Covering meetings in all of New York City and Long Island from 1657
to 1938.
A Complete Searchable Publication on CD
The second volume of the great 'Encyclopedia' is complete in itself for
the New Jersey and Pennsylvania monthly meetings which were part of the
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. It includes all records of genealogical
value, both Orthodox and Hicksite, known to be in existence for the
meetings from the last quarter of the seventeenth century down to the
time the work was originally published in 1938. Records and minutes of
FOUR OF THE OLDEST MONTHLY MEETINGS which ever belonged to the
Philadelphia Yearly Meetings of Friends ar contained. The records
are of two principal classes: (1) births and deaths and (2) minutes and
marriages, and they are arranged in alphabetical order, by family name,
under their corresponding monthly meeting. The marriages are arranged
by the names of both brides and grooms. Also provided are abstracts of
Quaker certificates of removal, which enable genealogists to trace
Quaker ancestors from one monthly meeting to another.
All records brought down from dates of
organizations to present time (1938). NOTE: In 1827 each of
these meetings was split into two seperate groups, commonly known as
"Hicksite" and "Orthodox," the records of both groups, after 1827,
being included here on account that, in each case, succeeding
generations of members possessed a common genealogical
background. All eight groups of these meetings are still active.
Names of Monthly Meetings (in this file) and dates of organizations:
1. Salem Monthly Meeting (N.J.) 1676
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2. Burlington Monthly Meeting (N.J.) 1678
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3. Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (PA.) 1682
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4. Falls Monthly Meeting (PA.) 1683
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