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Glens Falls Monthly Meeting Records (including Queensbury), 1800-1970 (inclusive)

Extent:
2.5 linear ft. (30 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of Glens Falls Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, the pre-Separation and Orthodox branches of Queensbury Monthly Meeting, 1800-1970. Includes: Minutes 1800-1970; Vital Records 1790-1952, including births & deaths, 1790-1906, membership, 1854-1952, and marriages & removals, 1806-55; Ministers and Elders minutes, 1892-1970; records of Mission Aid societies, 1920-51; Young Friends Fellowship, 1950-53.

Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Greenfield Preparative Meeting Records, 1809-1884 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.3 linear ft. (3 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of Greenfield Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its pre-Separation predecessor, 1809-1817, 1840-1859 and 1864-1884. Includes: Minutes 1809-17 & 1864-84, and women's minutes, 1840-59.

Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Half Moon Preparative Meeting Records, 1801-1840 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.2 linear ft. (2 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of Half Moon Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and its pre-Separation predecessor, 1801-1840. Includes: Minutes (men's), 1801-1836, and women's minutes, 1801-1840.

Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Easton Monthly Meeting Records (including its predecessor Saratoga 1778-1794), 1778-1995 (inclusive)

Extent:
2.2 linear ft. (28 volumes (plus 5 folders))
Abstract:
Records of Easton Monthly Meeting and its predecessor, the first Saratoga Monthly Meeting, 1778-ongoing. Includes: men's, women's & joint minutes, 1778-1985, births & deaths, 1735-1973, marriages, 1778-87 & 1789-1964, membership, 1778-1790, removals, 1790-1959, Ministers and Elders minutes, 1832-1925, minutes and accounts of Friends Seminary, 1874-1894, an accounts ledger, 1892-1985, and Newsletters 1990-95, Membership, 1778-90 also includes list of members of East Hoosick, White Creek, and Saratoga Preparative Meetings. Vol. 1.8 (1930-42) also includes minutes of Saratoga Quarterly Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1815-1925.

Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, 1824-1992 [bulk 1850-1892] (inclusive)

Extent:
2.5 linear ft. (5 boxes)
Abstract:
Abby Hopper Gibbons (1801-1893), daughter of Isaac T. Hopper (1771-1852), was an important figure in many of the reform movements of the mid- and late nineteenth centuries, especially abolition and her work with the Women's Prison Association and Isaac T. Hopper Home. In 1833, she married fellow Hicksite Quaker, James Sloan Gibbons (1810-1892), a member of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends. Her daughter, Sarah Hopper Emerson, used some of this material as a basis for her 1897 biography of Abby Hopper Gibbons. The collection contains about 1,680 ALsS and related materials. Of particular note is the correspondence sent and received by Abby Hopper Gibbons, including family letters and and related to her work to assist Union Soldiers during the Civil War. Also includes letters from Union soldiers, prominent Americans such as Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Choate, and Lydia Maria Child, and correspondence reflecting Quaker family life and concerns.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Eyre Family Papers, 1840-1912 (inclusive)

Extent:
1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)
Abstract:
The collection contains papers concerning the Eyre family, Pennsylvania Quakers. descendents of Isaac and Eleanor (Cooper) Eyre, of Philadelphia and Bucks County. Isaac Eyre (1778-1843) was a prominent Philadelphia shipbuilder. In 1828, he removed to a farm in Bucks County, Pa. William Eyre (1804-1885) was their oldest son, a Philadelphia master builder. His brother, Isaac (1819-1904) was a farmer and promoter of the railroad from Bucks County, Pa. He was also one of the founders of the George School, Newtown, Pa., and active in Quaker concerns. The collection contains correspondence of Isaac Eyre largely to Isaac Hicks (1815-1900) Quaker interests, prominent Friends, farming, and railroad projects; also eighteen diaries of William Eyre (1840-1880, gaps 1841-1849 and 1855-1857, microfilmed), and some miscellaneous family material.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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