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Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399 U.S.A.
For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Although Thomas Hooker devised a small plot of land to Friends in 1684 and Ann Pemberton deeded adjacent ground in 1833, the State of Maryland confirmed a 1867 deed when it incorporated Trustees for the "Quaker Burial Ground" in Galesville in 1888. This latter group of Trustees was made up of individuals whose families were interred in the ground, not necessarily all Quakers. However, in 1994, their successors petitioned Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting to take responsibility for the site; the Quarterly Meeting approved and appointed three Friends and one of the previous Trustees to a new Board. Collection includes records of the West River Quaker Burial Ground, 1862-1994. Consists of Minutes of the Trustees, General Records, Correspondence, Financial Records, and Miscellaneous. Financial materials include records of lot owners and sale of lots. Historical information is found in Miscellaneous

Repository:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399

Phone: (610) 328-8496 FAX: (610) 690-5728

 BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTE

In 1656, Elizabeth Harris, an English Friend, visited Maryland and converted a number of early residents; George Fox and William Edmundson attended a meeting at West River in 1672. Minutes of the monthly meeting which included West River survive from 1677.

Although Thomas Hooker devised a small plot of land to Friends in 1684 and Ann Pemberton deeded adjacent ground in 1833, the State of Maryland confirmed a 1867 deed when it incorporated Trustees for the "Quaker Burial Ground" in Galesville in 1888. This latter group of Trustees was made up of individuals whose families were interred in the ground, not necessarily all Quakers. However, in 1994, their successors petitioned Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting to take responsibility for the site; the Quarterly Meeting approved and appointed three Friends and one of the previous Trustees to a new Board.

 SCOPE AND CONTENT OF THE RECORDS

Records of the West River Quaker Burial Ground, 1862-1994. Consists of Minutes of the Trustees, General Records, Correspondence, Financial Records, and Miscellaneous. Financial materials include records of lot owners and sale of lots. Historical information is found in Miscellaneous.

Organized into five series:

Organization: Minutes Correspondence General Legal & Financial Records Miscellaneous ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

Donor: West River Quaker Burial Ground

Date: 1995

Accruals: 1996

Access

Collection is open for research.

 Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

 Preferred Citation

[Indicate the cited item or series here], West River Quaker Burial Ground Records, RG4/114, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

(10) folders with photocopies of correspondence and related materials on the family genealogies of Cathell, Coale-Thurston, Franklin, Johns, Lazenby, Murray, Orrick, Richardson, Thomas, and Taylor, 1935-1995, transferred to the appropriate PG7 folders.

 Processing information

Original order preserved. Refoldered and labeled and deposited in Record Group 4.

 SELECTED SEARCH TERMS DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings:

West River Quaker Burial Ground Quakers -- Maryland -- Anne Arundel County Society of Friends -- Maryland -- Anne Arundel County West River Monthly Meeting Cemeteries -- Maryland -- Anne Arundel County DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below:

 Series 1: Minutes Minutes 1867-1894; 1896-1937 1 folder 1

Volume includes Memoranda relating to the burying ground, a history of the Burial Ground before 1867 and a description of the lot (pp.1-6), minutes, 1867-1937 (pp.6-41), and Treasurer's Accounts, 1868-1937 (pp.60-127). Also includes photocopy.

 Minutes (copy) 1979-1994 1 folder 1 Incorporation February 15, 1888 1 folder 1

Photocopy of Act to Incorporate Trustees of the West River Quaker Burial Ground, as printed in Laws of Maryland, 1888.

 Trustee Appointments (copy) 1882, 1937-1978 1 folder 1 Administration change to Baltimore Yearly Meeting 1990-1994 1 folder 1

Photocopy of correspondence related to the transfer of oversight in 1994.

 Series 2: Correspondence Correspondence of Trustee President (copy) 1937-1974 1 folder 1

Includes legal papers, insurance, workman's compensation, burial ground regulations, lot purchases, maintenance, history

 Correspondence of Trustee President (copy) 1978-1994 1 folder 1

Cost of lots, sale of perpetual care lots, burial rates, lot locations, appeal letters, maintenance, genealogy, approach to Baltimore Yearly Meeting to resume oversight of burial ground

 Correspondence of Secretary-Treasurer (copy) 1948-1993 1 folder 1

Annual care payments, lot locations, genealogy. Arranged alphabetically. Includes index of correspondants.

 Correspondence of Secretary-Treasurer (copy) 1951-1959 1 folder 1

Due bills, requests for perpetual care lots, unauthorized grave openings, need for burial rules.

 Series 3: General Records

This series has been maintained in the same folders as received by Friends Historical Library.

 General Records (copy) 1867-1942 1 folder 1/2

Folders: 1867-74 & 1882-1906; 1933-34; 1/1935-7/1935; 8/1935-10/1935; 11/1935; 12/1935; 1/1936-3/1936; 4/1936-12/1936; 1/1937-9/1937; 10/1937-5/1939; 6/1939-5/1942. Includes property deeds, financial accounts, correspondence, tire insurance, annual care payments, sale of lots, maintenance, historic markers, genealogy

 Series 4: Legal and Financial Records

See also: Ser.1 Minutes, 1867-1937, and Ser.3 General Records

 Legal ("Principle") Papers (copy) 1683-1936 1 folder 2

Wills, deeds. Indexed

 Financial Reports (copy) 1868-1936 1 folder 2

Photocopies of financial records in book of minutes, 1867-1894; 1896-1937 (See: Series 1)

 Financial Reports (copy) 1936-1957 1 folder 2

General Accounts

 Cost of lots (copy) 1867-1993 1 folder 2 Sale of lots (copy) 1883;1868-1929; 1868-87; 1882-1944; 1911-36 1 folder 2 "Lot owners" 1950-1960 1 folder 2

One volume account book with annual care payments by lot owners, 1950-1960; includes, in back of book, a list of lots sold from 1882-1956; file includes photocopies.

 "Lot owners" 1960-1979 1 folder 2

One volume account book with annual care payments by lot owners, 1960-1979, and financial reports, 1960-1979.

 "Lot owners" (copy) 1974-1984 1 folder 2

Annual care payments

 Receipts for lot purchases and related correspondence 1869-1906 1 folder 2 Vouchers 1928-1937 1 folder 2

Bills for grave markers and maintenance expenses; file also includes a set of photocopies.

 Annual care payments 1957-1967 1 folder 3

One volume of annual care payments, 1957-1967, with a 1973 notation that the cost of lot care was raised from $4. to $8.

 Annual care payments (copy) 1947-1994 1 folder 3

Original receipt (1947) and photocopies of records of annual care payments, 1947-1994.

 Perpetual care requests and receipts (copy) 1960-1970 1 folder 3 Perpetual care records (copy) 1960-1984 1 folder 3 Annual care delinquent accounts (copy) 1988-1990 1 folder 3 Annual appeal letters (copy) 1935-1990 1 folder 3 Annual appeal mailing lists (copy) 1935; 1979 1 folder 3 Contributions (copy) 1963-1994 1 folder 3 Tax information (copy) 1963-1979 1 folder 3 Maintenance: employees (copy) 1993 1 folder 3 Maintenance: the wall 1948-1962 1 folder 3

Original contract and photocopies of correspondence related to the retaining wall; also includes copy of blueprint of grounds.

 Maintenance: the fence 1935-1936; 1983; 1987 1 folder 3

Originals and photocopies of correspondence related to the fence; also includes photographs and drawings

 1813 Deed (ms. copy) and Ensor Street Documents 1936 & n.d. 1 folder 3 Series 5: Miscellaneous Burial lists 1936 1 folder 3

Photocopies of lists of burials in West River from 1911-1935 by T.A. Hardesty & Son, 1936, and recorded by Reginald Claytor, 1928-36.

 Form letters (copy) 1959-68 & n.d. 1 folder 3

annual care dues, rules for opening graves, records updating, diligent dues, certificate of perpetual care

 Burial regulations 1894-1950 & n.d. 1 folder 3

Original and photocopies of burial regulations, 1894-1950 & n.d.

 Burial ground directory (copy) 1982-1983 1 folder 3

Two lists of interments, alphabetical and by plot number, 1982

 Burial ground plot 1982 1 folder 3

Pencil sketch of burial ground showing plot numbers.

 Other cemeteries (copy) n.d. 1 folder 3

Literature from local church and private cemeteries

 Stationery n.d. 1 folder 3 Celebrations: 250th anniversary of founding of Baltimore Yearly Meeting May 1922 1922 1 folder 3 Celebrations: Tercentenary Celebration, Galesville, Maryland August 16-17, 1952 (copy) 1952 1 folder 3 News clippings (copies) 1922-1994 1 folder 3 Historic road markers (copy) 1935 1 folder 3

Proposed text and related correspondence relative to historic markers.

 Historic trees, Galesville, Maryland (copy) 1992 & n.d. 1 folder 3

Correspondence and news article on oak trees adjacent to the burial ground

 Published historical accounts (copy) 1896-1967 1 folder 3

Photocopies of articles relative to Maryland Quakers.

 Lists of births, deaths, marriages on the Western shore of Maryland, 1658-1780 (copy) 1972-1974 1 folder 3

Photocopies of articles with vital record information by John J. Brinkley, published in the Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin from 1972 to 1974.

 Sufferings of Eastern and Western Shore (copy) 1972, 1984 1 folder 3

Photocopies of articles from the Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin (1972) by John J. Brinkley, and The Maryland and Delaware Genealogist (1984) by LaVerne Forbush on early Quaker sufferings.

 Private family cemeteries: Cedar Park, Tulip Hill, Sudley, Lothian (copy) n.d. 1 folder 3

Lists of burials.