BATTLE CREEK (HICKSITE)

Last revised: 11/26/09

Website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/friends/NYYM/bacrmm.xml

Former Meeting Names:

State or Province: MICHIGAN

County: CALHOUN

Physical location: BATTLE CREEK 4901_, FREMONT PARK

Latitude: 42.31 N Longitude: 085.17 W

Date granted: 1838/01/03

Date of first meeting: 1838/03/07

Date laid down: 1893AFT

Date of last meeting: 1899

Before and After: MILTON PM 1838/03/07 FROM LIVONIA (PLYMOUTH) MM. NEW MEETINGHOUSE 1860? ATTACHED TO PELHAM HYM.

Branches:

Latest yearly meeting: GENESEE Y.M.

Where records are kept: SWARTHMORE mf LDS 17275, 17372. EARLHAM 5-6

Records known extant: SWARTHMORE: MIN 1838-1886, WOMEN MIN 1838-1869, BIRTHS & DEATHS 1803-1903, REMOVALS, MARRIAGES 1838-1868. BATTLE CREEK PUB LIB: RE-BURIALS 1921

Affiliations:

Local-related histories: ANN & CONRAD BURTON, MICHIGAN QUAKERS, ABSTRACTS OF FIFTEEN MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS 1831-1960 (1989), p. 521f. A. DAY BRADLEY, “PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS IN MICHIGAN AND NEW YORK”, 52 QUAKER HISTORY, No. 2 (1963), pp. 95-103 -- LISTS VARIOUS MEMBERS. CARLISLE G. DAVIDSON, “A PROFILE OF HICKSITE QUAKERISM IN MICHIGAN, 1830-1860”, 59 QUAKER HISTORY, No. 2 (1970), pp. 106-112.

Comments: 2-MONTHS MEETING AFTER 1849/02/14.

Subordinates: