Mennonite Heritage Center
MHEP.Arch.Coll.WestSwampMennCh
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Mennonite Heritage Center
- Title
- West Swamp Mennonite Church collection
- ID
- MHEP.Arch.Coll.WestSwampMennCh
- Date
- 1790-current
- Extent
- 11.0 Linear feet
- Language
- English
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Mennonite Heritage Center 2015
565 Yoder RoadHarleysville, PA
215.256.3020
library@mhep.org
Controlled Access Headings
Corporate Name(s)
- West Swamp Mennonite Church (Quakertown, Pa.).
Collection Inventory
Box | Folder | |||
Record of items deposited with MHEP 1977, 1983 |
1 | 1 | ||
Photographs Scope and Contents notePhotos of the interior and exterior of the meetinghouse, beginning circa 1890. Also a few photos of congregational social groups, early-to-mid 20th century. Oversize photos are in box 14, pictorial directories in box 4. |
1 | 2 | ||
Historical articles and newspaper clippings |
1 | 3 | ||
Series 1. Early papers |
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Box | Folder | |||
1790 deed--Preacher Michael Musselman et al. to congregation and trustees |
1 | 4 | ||
1815 bond--Abraham Stauffer to Valentine Huber |
1 | 5 | ||
1819 meetinghouse construction records Scope and Contents noteThis "folder" is a white binder full of sleeve pages and folders containing papers and receipts related to the meetinghouse construction. Also included is Raymond Hollenbach's transcription of the papers. The papers are in the order in which they are given in Hollenbach's transcription, and this order should be maintained. The final account of construction manager David Gehman (dated 1832) is in Flat File drawer #9. |
1 | 6 | ||
1830 and 1851 drafts of church land |
1 | 7 | ||
1832-1868 trustees' record book (photocopy--original at Bluffton University) |
1 | 8 | ||
1842 treasurer's account of meetinghouse remodeling |
1 | 9 | ||
1844 congregational constitution (handwritten and signed by male members of the congregation) |
1 | 10 | ||
1850 letter--establising congregational Poor Fund |
1 | 11 | ||
1863 broadside--"Ein Christliches Jugend-Fest [Christian Youth Festival" at the "old Swamp Meetinghouse" |
1 | 12 | ||
1874 account of new meetinghouse construction, deed, and fire insurance certificate |
1 | 13 | ||
1877 congregational constitution (published) |
1 | 14 | ||
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Series 2. Congregational records |
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Box | Folder | |||
Membership record book (including East Swamp) 1848-1888 |
1 | 15 | ||
Baptism certificates--Diana L. Schelly, 1848; Emma S. Schelly, 1875; Jacob Ackerman, 1877; Andrew S. Stauffer, 1884 |
1 | 16 | ||
Volume | ||||
Membership record book 1888-1961 |
loose on shelf | |||
Box | ||||
Annual bulletins/directories 1902-2007 |
2-4 | |||
Pictorial directories 1972, 1980, 1985, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2006, 2010 |
4 | |||
Special occasions and programs |
4 | |||
Congregational and Council meeting minutes 1872-1960, 2000-current |
5 | |||
Weekly bulletins/newsletters 1915-1917, 1923-1955 |
6 | |||
Volume | ||||
Worship bulletins (bound) 1957-1999 |
loose on shelf | |||
Box | ||||
Worship bulletins 2000- |
7-8 | |||
Newsletters 1957- |
9-11 | |||
Box | Folder | |||
Financial--Receipt books (2) 1859-1873 |
12 | 1 | ||
Box | Volume | |||
Financial--Treasurer's record 1878-1888, 1916-1952 |
12 | 1-4 | ||
Financial--Charity Fund 1864-1956 |
12 | 5 | ||
Financial--Mission Account 1924-1961 |
12 | 6 | ||
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Series 3. Sunday School records |
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Box | Volume | |||
Minute books 1858-1870, 1878-1882 |
13 | 1-3 | ||
Box | ||||
Attendance record books 1860s-1920s |
13-14 | |||
Box | Volume | |||
Board of Christian Education minute book 1951-1963 |
14 | 8 | ||
Cradle roll book (birth and enrollment dates) 1913-1967 |
14 | 9 | ||
Manuscript songbooks, early 20th century |
14 | 10-12 | ||
"Co-Workers with Christ" class minute book 1915-1919 |
14 | 13 | ||
Women's class minute book 1951-1969 |
14 | 14 | ||
Young men's/"Live Wire" class minute books (2) 1939-1958 |
14 | 15-16 | ||
Box | Folder | |||
"Never Idle" class minute books (2) 1943-1950, correspondence, and birthday calendars published for the congregation, 1958-1971 |
14 | 1-2 | ||
Souvenirs, certificates, early 20th century |
14 | 3 | ||
Oversize photos |
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Box | ||||
Sunday School Treasurer's record books (3) 1891-1958 |
15 | |||
Sunday School Library record books (4) 1875-1898 |
16 | |||
Books with Sunday School Library bookplates, mid-to-late 19th century |
16 | |||
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Series 4. Youth, women's and men's organizations |
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Box | ||||
Youth organization (Christian Endeavor) minute books (8) 1890-1891, 1902-1956 |
17 | |||
Youth organization constitution booklets and program cards, early 20th century |
17 | |||
Box | Volume | |||
Youth--junior society minute books (8), 1901-1902, 1918-1962, 1966-1975 |
18 | 1-8 | ||
Youth--intermediate society minute books (2), 1929-1949 |
18 | 9-10 | ||
Youth--senior Christian Endeavor minute book 1964-1970 |
18 | 11 | ||
Box | ||||
Youth--books with Christian Endeavor bookplates (3), early 20th century |
18 | |||
Women's organization (Ladies Aid Society) minute books (29), 1890-1910, 1912-1914, 1916-1943 |
19-20 | |||
Box | Folder | |||
Women's org--Young Women's Missionary Society minute books (3), 1925-1961 |
20 | 1-2 | ||
Women's org--Ladies Aid/Women's Missionary Society annual report book 1927-1952 |
20 | 3 | ||
Women's org--Ladies Aid/Women's Missionary Society documents and correspondence 1893-1969 |
20 | 4 | ||
Men's org--Mennonite Brotherhood of the Swamp Charge minute book 1944-1952 |
20 | 5 | ||
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Series 5. History book project (Maynard Shelly files) 1991-2004 |
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Box | Folder | |||
"West Swamp Story/Preview" newsletters 1991-2004 |
21 | 1 | ||
Correspondence 1991-2004 |
21 | 2 | ||
Database of early members |
21 | 3 | ||
Timelines |
21 | 4 | ||
Bauman family of missionaries |
21 | 5 | ||
Brethren (Dunkards) in the Swamp community (info on John Frick) |
21 | 6 | ||
Broadsides (see also West Swamp folder in flat file drawer #9) |
21 | 7 | ||
Cemetery transcription (pre-1936, handwritten) |
21 | 8 | ||
Deeds (incl. original deeds from Ada Rosenberger, dated 1879-1912) |
21 | 9 | ||
Engelman, Esther Bauman--papers and photos |
21 | 10 | ||
Indians (Native Americans) |
21 | 11 | ||
Isaak, Art |
21 | 12 | ||
Keiser, Arthur--correspondence 1962-1963 |
21 | 13 | ||
Kratz, Catherine (accused of affair with John H. Oberholtzer, 1858) |
21 | 14 | ||
Box | Volume | |||
Missionary scrapbook |
22 | loose in box | ||
Box | Folder | |||
Milford Township--early settlement |
22 | 1 | ||
Milford Township--tax list of 1798 |
22 | 2 | ||
Moyer, Hannah B.--estate papers 1917 |
22 | 3 | ||
Musselman, Christian--papers from family Bible |
22 | 4 | ||
Oberholtzer, John H. |
22 | 5 | ||
Obituary collection (photocopy--location of original unknown)--"Evangelisches Vergissmeinnicht" book (published 1884 by the Gen. Conf. Menn. Ch.) containing obituaries from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a few reproduced photographs |
22 | 6 | ||
Occupations of members, 1960-1990 |
22 | 7 | ||
Palatine Mennonites with Swamp names |
22 | 8 | ||
Palatine poems about farming |
22 | 9 | ||
Richert, Irvin E. |
22 | 10 | ||
Rosenberger, Clarence--interview 1991 |
22 | 11 | ||
Saucon Mennonite community |
22 | 12 | ||
Saucon "Incident", 1778 |
22 | 13 | ||
Schantz, John--letter to Canada, 1859 |
22 | 14 | ||
Schultz, Jonas Y. |
22 | 15 | ||
Shelly, Andrew B. |
22 | 16 | ||
Shelly, Andrew R. |
22 | 17 | ||
Shelly, Anthony S. |
22 | 18 | ||
Shelly, D.--spinning wheel (photos) |
22 | 19 | ||
Shelly, Elwood S. (incl. photos) |
22 | 20 | ||
Shelly, William N.--letter from "Baumansville", 1857 |
22 | 21 | ||
Stauffer, John G. |
22 | 22 | ||
Wadsworth Seminary |
22 | 23 | ||
Wedding practices ("New Mennonite", 1869) |
22 | 24 | ||
Weiss, Henry L. (incl. photos) |
22 | 25 | ||
Women of West Swamp |
22 | 26 | ||
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Box | ||||
Audiocassettes of select worship services (15), 1981-1982 |
23 | |||