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Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Men's Minutes, 1786-1796
Title:
Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Men's Minutes, 1786-1796
Description:
Men's Minutes from Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, 1786-1796. The volume also includes Men's Minutes 1797-1798 and Women's Meeting Minutes 1810-1824, not scanned and transcribed here.
Date:
1786 - 1796
Collection:
Chesterfield Monthly Meeting Records, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Chesterfield Manumissions
Title:
Chesterfield Manumissions
Description:
This collection chiefly consists of manumission certificates signed by members of Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, 1774-1796. It also includes several related documents on topics such as the education of free Negroes, and the treatment of Friends who refused to comply with the Anti-Slavery Testimony.
Date:
1774 - 1848
Collection:
Chesterfield Monthly Meeting Records, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Duck Creek Manumissions, 1774-1792
Title:
Duck Creek Manumissions, 1774-1792
Description:
This volume consists of manumissions of slaves by the members of Duck Creek Monthly Meeting and some other Friends, recorded according to the 2mo 22nd, 1777 direction of the Meeting. The Monthly Meeting at Duck Creek was set off from Newark (Kennett) Monthly Meeting in 1705, and included Quakers who worshipped at a number of meeting houses in Kent County, Delaware. This volume is filled from front and back (44 pages, 70 pages) and is partially indexed. The page numbering jumps from page 36 to page 39. The name of Warner Mifflin, the noted 18th century abolitionist, appears frequently as witness or examiner of many of the manumission certificates.
Date:
1774 - 1792
Collection:
Camden Monthly Meeting Records, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Men's Minutes, 1774-1786
Title:
Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Men's Minutes, 1774-1786
Description:
This volume includes the minutes from the men's meeting, 1738-1786. The years 1774-1786 have been scanned and transcribed.
Date:
1774 - 1786
Collection:
Chesterfield Monthly Meeting Records, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Manumission of Antram Ferris by Thomas Norris
Title:
Manumission of Antram Ferris by Thomas Norris
Description:
This is a scan of a photocopy of the manumission of Antram Ferris by Thomas Norris, member of the Salem Monthly Meeting in New Jersey.
Date:
1786
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore