Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District
Genealogy
Society of Friends
Quakers
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.
Lay ministry--Society of Friends
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.
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
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.
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.
Removals Received, Original Certificates Nos. 1951-2095, 1770-1772
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 later date, as received by Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. Indexed.
Removals Received, Original Certificates Nos. 1800-1950, 1767-1770
Removals Received, Original Certificates Nos. 1651-1800, 1764-1767
Removals Received, Original Certificates Nos. 1501-1650, 1762-1764
Removals Received, Original Certificates Nos. 1351-1500, 1760-1762
Removals Received, Original Certificates Nos. 1051-1200, 1755-1759
Removals Received, Original Certificates Nos. 1201-1350, 1753-1760
Removals Received, Original Certificates Nos. 901-1049, 1750-1755
Removals Received, Original Certificates Nos. 751-900, 1747-1750
Removals Received, Original Certificates Nos. 601-750, 1742-1746
Removals Received, Original Certificates Nos. 451-600, 1736-1742
Removals Received, Original Certificates Nos. 301-450, 1729-1736
Removals Received, Original Certificates Nos. 151-300, 1714-1729
Includes Certificate of Removal for Grace Stevenson and her daughters to Middletown Monthly Meeting dated 1768; four copies of the Certificate for Removal of Letitia Penn to London dated 1701; Certificate of Removal for Elizabeth Pane to Dublin dated 1711.
Supplementary Record to Certificates Received, 1686-1772
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. This is a copy made in 1882.
Removals Received, Original Certificates Nos. 1-150, 1686-1713
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. This volume also includes a few acknowledgements, 1692-1698, at the end of the volume as well as a separate index.
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. Copy of the original made in 1881. Includes acknowledgments in the back, 1692-1698.
Women's Book of marriage intentions and accounts, 1685-1728
Quakers married each other in the presence of witnesses. This book, kept by women Friends, recorded intentions of marriage and the people and causes for distribution of funds. Laid in is another small book with additional marriage and fund disbursement information and 3 loose pages of accounts.
The Women's Monthly Meeting Booke, 1685-1728
Quakers married each other in the presence of witnesses. This book, kept by women Friends, recorded intentions of marriage and the people and causes for distribution of funds. Laid in is another small book with additional marriage and fund disbursement information and 3 loose pages of accounts. Also includes some removals.
Orders of Interment, Volume IV (Nos. 2244-3002), 1785-1804
The first burial ground for Quakers in Philadelphia was located on the east side of 4th Street, south of Arch Street – the site of the Arch Street meeting house today. Quaker burial grounds in Philadelphia were never entirely "select" -- that is, strictly limited to members of the Society of Friends. However, additional members of the Meeting’s burial ground committee had to approve and to sign the permit for non-members. Plots were not sold individually. These are the original interment permits, mounted in a series of volumes.
Orders of Interment, Volume III (Nos. 1555-2243), 1770-1785
Orders of Interment, Volume II (Nos. 788-1554), 1764-1770
Orders of Interment, Volume I (Nos. 1-787), 1758-1764
Congregation Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Jews
Synagogues--Finance
Synagogues
Synagogue records and registers
Detailed account of money spent and received by Congregation Mikveh Israel; the first 20 pages are of a slightly smaller size, which have been inserted into the bound manuscript and contain balances from 1858 to 1876. A few notes and receipts from that timeframe have been inserted into the following pages. The second half of the book contains a detailed accounting of expenses and receipts from 1900 to 1908, which pages are numbered according to the page numbers in the record itself.
Pew holders, Christ Church, St. Peter's, and St. James', 1826-1829
Pews and pew rights
Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
St. Peter's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
St. James's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
United Churches of Christ-Church, St. Peter's, and St. James's (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Episcopalians
Episcopal Church
The practice of renting pews was common in 18th and 19th century churches; members paid a fee for the right to occupy a particular pew every week. This document lists pew holders at Christ Church, St. Peter's Church and St. James's Church from circa 1826 to 1829. Entries are listed alphabetically, with columns for each church running across two pages, recto and verso.
Pew holders, Christ Church and St. Peter's Church, 1787-1815
Church finance
United Churches of Christ-Church and St. Peter's (Philadelphia, Pa.)
The practice of renting pews was common in 18th and 19th century churches; members paid a fee for the right to occupy a particular pew every week. This bound manuscript is a record of people who rented pews at Christ Church and St. Peter's Church from 1787 to 1815. Entries are listed by pew number, with occupants' names, number of seats, dates occupied, and notes about the location of the pew and home addresses of the occupants. Christ Church pew holders are listed from the front of the book, and St. Peter's pew holders are listed from page 21.
The practice of renting pews was common in 18th and 19th century churches; members paid a fee for the right to occupy a particular pew every week. This bound manuscript is a record of people who rented pews at Christ Church from 1785 to 1800. Entries are listed by pew number, with occupants' names, number of seats, dates occupied, and notes about the location of the pew and home addresses of the occupants. An insert at the back of the book illustrates the layout of the pews.
The practice of renting pews was common in 18th and 19th century churches; members paid a fee for the right to occupy a particular pew every week. This bound manuscript is a record of people who rented pews at Christ Church in 1786. Entries are listed by pew number, with occupants' names, number of seats, and various notes about the location of the pews and home addresses of the occupants.
Churchwardens' accounts
Church buildings
Cemeteries
Charity
Poor
Record of expenditures by Christ Church and the United Episcopal Churches, from 1708 through 1833. Expenses noted include: firewood and candles; wine and bread for communion; supplies and workmen for building repairs and upkeep of the burial grounds; charitable assistance to the poor; and salaries for church employees such as the minister, sexton, organist, and Sunday school superintendent.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting
Quaker women
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, and considered questions too large for one meeting to resolve. A quarterly meeting also had the authority to establish or discontinue a monthly, preparative, or particular meeting for worship.
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, and considered questions too large for one meeting to resolve. A quarterly meeting also had the authority to establish or discontinue a monthly, preparative, or particular meeting for worship. Index at front.
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 establish or discontinue a monthly, preparative, or particular meeting for worship. Index at front.
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District
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 several different meeting houses in a defined geographic area. It had responsibility for care of members, authorizing marriages and removals (transfers), and maintaining discipline.