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Green Street Monthly Meeting Records, 1689-2016 (inclusive)

Extent:
30 linear ft. (19 document cases, 2 record cartons, 2 flat mss boxes, bound volumes, 4 oversize folders)
Abstract:
Records of Green Street Monthly Meeting (1775-2016) and its assorted subordinate meetings and organizations, including Greene Street Friends School and Fair Hill Meeting House and Burial Ground.

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) Records: Committee on Economic Problems (1937-1948), 1936-1948 (inclusive)

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1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Abstract:
The Committee on Economic Problems was appointed in 1937 to cooperate with the Social Order Committee of the Arch Street Yearly Meeting. Clair Wilcox, a Quaker professor of Economics at Swarthmore College was the first Chair. The Committee was interested in a variety of related issues, including industrial relations, unemployment, and economic and social research.

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Joint Committee on Cooperation between Arch Street and Race Street (1930-1955), 1930-1935 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 linear ft. (3 folders)
Abstract:
In 5mo 1930, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) appointed a committee "for the development of closer cooperation between Arch Street and Race Street Yearly Meetings, and to consider also whether the time of our Yearly Meeting might be changes so that the sessions of the two Meetings would at least in part overlap." Includes records of this Committee, 1930-1935. Of particular interest are surveys of cooperation between the two Philadelphia Quaker bodies to that point, as well as histories of these early orgainzations, including Woolman School, the predecessor to Pendle Hill.

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Meeting House Trust Funds, 1719-1995 (inclusive)

Extent:
5 linear ft. (5 document cases + 1 volume (swarthmore))
Abstract:
The Meeting House Trust Funds Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is responsible for the administration of both the Samuel Jeanes Trust Fund and the Charleston Fund. Both funds assist meetings in the acquisition, repair and restoration of meeting houses and their grounds.

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Mississippi Project (1964-1966), 1949-1967 (inclusive)

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3 linear ft.
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In response to the 1964 bombing of 44 black churches in Mississippi, Philadelphia and New York Yearly Meetings coordinated a joint effort to rebuild the destroyed churches and to attempt to foster racial reconciliation in the area. The project sent Lawrence and Viola Scott to Jackson, Mississippi as Quaker representatives. By 1966, the group had rebuilt 33 of the 44 churches, and built a community center in rural Canton, Mississippi. This collection is primarily composed of financial records, including accounts, invoices, receipts, bank statements, and invoices. It also includes correspondence for the Education Committee of PYM regarding publications, supplies, and pamphlets.

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Friends Peace Committee and its predecessors (1891-2015), 1891-2007 (inclusive)

Extent:
36 linear ft.
Abstract:
The Friends Peace Committee (FPC) of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was formed in 1933 by the merger of similar committees that had been established in 1892 by the Race Street Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) and in 1916 by the Arch Street Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) in Philadelphia. Since 1933, the committee has undergone a series of structural changes, perhaps most strikingly under the direction of Executive Secretary George Hardin from 1949-1973. There are a number of different subcommittees under the Friends Peace Committee that work on different facets of peacekeeping, including international issues, the role of the military in schools and society, and effecting legislative change.

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) Records: Committee on Philanthropic Labor (1892-1936), 1892-1937 (inclusive)

Extent:
3 linear ft.
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The Committee on Philanthropic Labor was appointed by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) in 1892, merging the existing committees of Indian Concerns, Temperance and Intoxicating Beverages, and Colored People of the South. The Committee coordinated Philadelphia Hicksite Quaker activity in a number of social concerns, including race relations, Indian affairs, temperance and peace. In 1892, Subcommittees included Peace and Arbitration, Improper Publications, the Colored People, Indians, and Temperance and Tobacco. The name of the Committee was changed in 1936 to Social Service.

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Lake Erie Yearly Meeting Records, 1934-2024 (inclusive)

Extent:
15 linear ft. and .3 gb
Abstract:
The Lake Erie Yearly Meeting opened on August 31, 1963, as an outgrowth of the Great Lakes Regional Conference, begun in May, 1939, and called Lake Erie Association of Friends Meetings after 1944. Records include minutes and other records of Lake Erie Association, Lake Erie Yearly Meeting, and its constituent monthly meetings.

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Joint Committee on the Religious Life of Our Society (1944-1950), 1944-1950 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 linear ft. (3 folders)
Abstract:
In 3mo 1944, Rufus Jones published an article, "Are We Ready," in Friends Intelligencer. In response to his concern for deepening the spiritual life of the Religious Society of Friends, members of both the Race Street and Arch Street Philadelphia Yearly Meetings gathered six months later in the meeting house at 15th and Race Streets. Records include minutes, correspondence, and publications.

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Social Service Committee (1936-1964), 1936-1964 (inclusive)

Extent:
1.5 linear ft. (4 boxes)
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The Social Service Committee was appointed in 1936, continuing the work of the Committee on Philanthropic Labor of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite). Primarily educational in nature, its work included providing information to local Quaker meetings on social service issues. The Committee was renamed the Committee on Social Welfare in 1964.

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Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting Records, 1943-2023 (inclusive)

Extent:
13 linear ft. and 0.2 gb
Abstract:
Records of the Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Association and many of its constituent members. Includes minutes, membership records, newsletters, committee records, and miscellaneous. Some born-digital records. The Charleston WV and Swannanoa Valley Meetings, which disaffiliated with SAYMA in 2022 and 2023, are described separately.

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The Friends of Progress (Milton, N.Y.) Records, 1854-1927 (inclusive)

Extent:
.1 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:
Records of The Friends of Progress at Milton in Marlborough Township, Ulster County, N.Y. Includes: Minutes, 1854-1927. Most of the book is blank, with a 1906 membership list and an undated burial ground plot list at the end.

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Bethpage Preparative Meeting Records, 1773-2010 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.5 linear ft.
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Includes records of the pre-Separation and Hicksite Bethpage Preparative Meeting: men's minutes, 1773-2010; women's minutes, 1789-1795, 1805-1890; treasurer's book, 1785-1804.

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Brookfield Monthly Meeting Records, 1815-1950 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.31 linear ft. (3 volumes)
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Includes: Minutes, 1902-1950; Christian Endeavor Society Minutes, 1903-1936; Register-births and deaths, 1815-1938.

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Buffalo Monthly Meeting Records, 1939-2022 (inclusive)

Extent:
1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes, 4 volumes) and 0.1 gb
Abstract:
Records of Buffalo Monthly Meeting and of the Buffalo Niagara Friends Group, 1939-ongoing. Includes: Minutes, Ministry & Counsel files, Newsletters, and miscellaneous records.

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Bulls Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting Records, 1799-2013 (inclusive)

Extent:
2.1 linear ft.
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Records of Bulls Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Oswego Monthly Meeting and Oswego Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). Includes: minutes, men's and joint, 1826-2013; women's minutes, 1799-1887; vital records including marriages, 1799-1900, marriages & removals, 1809-1875, births & deaths, 1810-1933, marriages & removals, 1875-1917, births & deaths, 1927-1980, removals, 1979-1995; minutes of the meeting of Ministers and Elders 1883-1859 & 1890-1910; account books of the Oswego Institute and its predecessor, Oswego Village Boarding School, 1860-1863; minutes of the Moore's Mills Friends Association, 1899-1907; newsletter, 1980-89 and 95; minutes of the Oswego Cemetery Association. Also includes records of Bull's Head Preparative Meeting, 1959-66.

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Catskill Monthly Meeting Records (including Plains (Hicksite) and Greenfield and Neversink), 1828-2002 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.3 linear ft. (8 volumes (plus 4 folders))
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Records of Catskill Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Plains Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) and Greenfield and Neversink Executive Meeting, 1828-ongoing. Includes: Minutes (men's & joint), 1847-2002, and a register of marriages and removals, 1828-1863, and membership list. 1999.

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Chappaqua Monthly Meeting Records, 1732-2002 (inclusive)

Extent:
4.5 linear ft.
Abstract:
Records of Chappaqua Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Hicksite, Orthodox, and pre-Separation. Includes: Minutes (men's, women's & joint), 1785-2002; vital records 1756-1990; Ministers & Elders minutes, 1809-1886; financial Records 1828-1891; miscellaneous papers, 1732-1879; First Day School Records 1894; newsletters, 1985-95.

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Cornwall Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records, 1828-1906 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.7 linear ft. (9 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of Cornwall Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-1906. Includes: minutes (men's & joint), 1828-1906; women's minutes, 1828-1881; vital records 1788-1896; Ministers and Elders minutes, 1831-1867.

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Elmira Monthly Meeting Records, 1939-2008 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.25 linear ft. (2 volumes, 1 box)
Abstract:
Records of Elmira Monthly Meeting, 1939-ongoing. Includes: Minutes, 1939-1964, and newsletter 1996-2008.

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Farmington South Preparative Meeting Records, 1819-1904 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.3 linear ft. (5 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of Farmington South Preparative Meeting, 1819-1905. Includes men's minutes 1819-1905, and women's minutes 1819-1881.

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