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Albany Executive and Monthly Meetings (1840-1915) Records, 1840-1915 (inclusive)

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0.8 linear ft. (6 volumes)
Abstract:
Includes: Minutes (men's and joint), 1840-94 and 1894-1915; women's minutes, 1840-69; minutes of the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1841-87 and 1887-94; register & scrapbook, 1840-1915; Deeds and Property Records 1898-1908; contained with the Register are records of births & deaths, marriages, removals, names of the members of Albany and New Scotland Preparative Meetings, and miscellaneous items tipped in.

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Butternuts Quarterly Meeting Records (including Butternuts (Orthodox) and Duanesburg (Pre-Separation and Orthodox)), 1812-2012 (inclusive) 1843-1874 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.7 linear ft.
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Minutes of Butternuts Quarterly Meeting and its predecessors, Butternuts Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox), Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox) and Duanesburg Ouarterly Meeting (pre-Separation), 1812-ongoing. Includes: minutes of the Meeting of Ministers and Elders 1812-1952; men's minutes & joint, 1828-2012; and women's minutes and joint, 1828-1910. Also includes the minutes of Butternuts Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1888-1910, in the volume 1876-1882.

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Chappaqua Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records, 1828-1910 (inclusive)

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0.7 linear ft. (8 volumes)
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Records of Chappaqua Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1828-1910. Includes: Minutes (men's & joint), 1828-1910, women's minutes, 1828-1891, and financial Records 1852-1909.

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Chatham Preparative Meeting Records, 1819-1880 (inclusive)

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0.17 linear ft. (2 volumes)
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Includes: Minutes of the men's meeting for business, 1819-1849, and women's minutes, 1826-1880.

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Clear Creek Preparative Meeting Records, 1820-1878 (inclusive)

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0.2 linear ft. (4 volumes)
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Records of Clear Creek Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and its pre-Separation predecessor. Includes: Minutes, 1820-1878, and women's minutes, 1820-1834.

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Clintondale Local Business Meeting Records (including Plattekill Preparative (Orthodox)), 1853-1936 (inclusive)

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0.2 linear ft. (5 volumes)
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Records of Clintondale Local Business Meeting and its predecessors, Plattekill Preparative Meeting and Clintondale Preparative Meeting (Orthodox). Includes: Minutes, 1853-1874 & 1894-1936, and births & deaths, 1822-1928.

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Creek Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records, 1828-1892 (inclusive)

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0.17 linear ft. (2 volumes)
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Records of Creek Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-1892. Includes: Men's and women's minutes, 1855-92 and 1828-1835.

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Creek Preparative Meeting (Pre-Separation and Hicksite) Records, 1797-1895 (inclusive)

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0.3 linear ft. (4 volumes (plus one folder))
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Records of Creek Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) of Clinton, N.Y., and its pre-Separation predecessor, 1797-1895. Includes: men's minutes, 1797-1809 and 1851-1882, and women's minutes, 1820-1895.

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Amawalk Monthly Meeting Records, 1795-1996 (inclusive)

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2.1 linear ft. (16 volumes (plus 7 folders))
Abstract:
Records of Amawalk Monthly Meeting and its predecessor, Amawalk Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1795-ongoing. Includes: Minutes 1812-1991; Vital records 1798-1996; minutes and other records of Ministry & Counsel and its predecessor, Ministers & Elders, 1829-1914 & 1986-95; Treasurer's book 1910-1985; deeds & other property Records 1774-1903; extracts of the minutes of the monthly and quarterly meetings for Amawalk Preparative (1795) and Monthly (1806).

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Crum Elbow Preparative Meeting Records, 1797-1899 (inclusive)

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0.6 linear ft. (8 volumes (plus 2 folders))
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Records of Crum Elbow Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its pre-Separation predecessor. Includes: Men's & women's minutes, 1797-1899, and register, 1828-1946.

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DeRuyter Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) Records, 1809-1886 (inclusive)

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0.5 linear ft. (7 volumes)
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Records of DeRuyter Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) and its pre-Separation predecessor, 1809-1886. Includes: Minutes, 1820-1886, women's minutes, 1842-1880, births & deaths, 1811-1848, marriages, 1809-1861, marriages & removals, 1809-1862, and minutes of the meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1869-1881.

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Amawalk Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records, 1777-1886 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.9 linear ft. (6 volumes)
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Records of Amawalk Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1777-1886. Includes: Minutes, 1814-1886, and women's minutes, 1777-1886.

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East Hoosack (Hicksite) and East Hoosuck (Pre-Separation) Monthly Meetings Records, 1713-1910 (inclusive)

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0.2 linear ft. (2 volumes (plus one folder))
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Records of East Hoosack Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) and its predecessor, East Hoosuck Monthly Meeting, 1789-1869. Includes: Women's minutes, 1803-1839, and a typescript copy, made in 1917 from the original, of a register of births & deaths, 1713-1869, and marriages & removals, 1783-1842. The last death entry, of Hannah Hoxie, 7mo 1869, was made by her daughter, Eliza.

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Farmington Executive Meeting Records (including Farmington Monthly Meeting (Hicksite)), 1787-1957 (inclusive)

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1.3 linear ft. (10 volumes)
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Records of Farmington Executive meeting of Friends (Hicksite), and its predecessor, Farmington Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1787-1857. Includes: minutes (men's & joint), 1828-1927, women minutes, 1803-15 & 1818-53; vital records including births & deaths, 1787-1957, births, daaths, marriages & removals, 1828-67, and a register, 1828-67; minutes of Ministers and Elders, 1879-1913.

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Farmington Friends Meeting Records (including Farmington Monthly Meeting (Orthodox)), 1803-1997 (inclusive)

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3.75 linear ft. (32 volumes (plus 5 folders))
Abstract:
Records of Farmington Friends Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, the pre-Separation and Orthodox Farmington Monthly Meetings, 1803-. Includes: Minutes (men's & joint), 1803-1997, women's minutes, 1816-77, marriage intentions, 1803-27, births, deaths, etc., 1885-1906, marriages & removals, 1802-52, membership, 1907-70, Ministers and Elders minutes, 1838-1973 & 1990-1997, a Lyceum book, and The Farmington Friend, a newsletter, 1964-68 & 1984-95.

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Farmington Quarterly Meeting Records, 1810-1974 (inclusive)

Extent:
2.1 linear ft. (21 volumes)
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Records of Farmington Quarterly Meeting and its predecessors, 1810-1974. Includes: Men's, women's & joint minutes, 1810-1974, Ministers and Elders minutes, 1810-1940, and Bible School Conference, 1894-1916.

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Flushing Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox) Records, 1777-1886 (inclusive)

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0.75 linear ft. (10 volumes (plus 2 folders))
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Records of Flushing Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and its predecessor, the pre-Separation Flushing Preparative Meeting. Includes: minutes 1777-1886, women's minutes, 1808-1860, and school fund accounts, 1792-1816.

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Galway Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) Records, 1802-1865 (inclusive)

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0.5 linear ft. (6 volumes)
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Records of Galway Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) and its predecessor, 1802-1865. Includes: Minutes 1828-1865; women's minutes, 1802-1865; Ministers and Elders minutes, 1852-1862; Register, 1850-1861, Correspondence 1932-53.

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Genesee Yearly Meeting Records, 1834-1891 (inclusive)

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3 linear ft. (volumes)
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Yearly meeting records of Genesee Yearly Meeting, 1834-1891.

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Easton and Saratoga Half Yearly Meeting Records (including its Half Yearly and Quarterly predecessors Easton (Hicksite), Easton & Granville, Easton & Saratoga, and Saratoga (Hicksite)), 1793-1986 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 linear ft. (6 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of Easton and Saratoga Half Yearly Meeting (1927-1986) and its predecessors, Easton Half Yearly (Hicksite: 1924-27), Easton & Granville Half Yearly (1898-1924), Easton and Saratoga Quarterly (1871-1898), Easton Quarterly (Hicksite: 1828-1871), Easton Quarterly (1795-1828), and Saratoga Quarterly (Hicksite: 1828-71). Includes: Minutes, (men's and joint), 1793-1985, women's minutes, 1793-1884, and minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1793-1871.

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Hartland Monthly Meeting Records, 1821-2005 (inclusive)

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1.5 linear ft.
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Records of Hartland Monthly Meeting of Friends and its Orthodox and Conservative predecessors, 1828-1968. Includes vital records, 1821-2005, minutes (men's & joint), 1821-2000, women's minutes, 1821-1879, ministry and elders, 1963, property and financial records, 1906-2003, committees, 1875-1973, and miscellaneous, 1860-2004.

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Hartland Preparative Meeting Records, 1817-1902 (inclusive)

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0.25 linear ft. (4 volumes)
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Records of Hartland Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and its predecessor, 1817-1902. Includes: Minutes, 1817-1902, and women's minutes, 1856-1879.

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Lafayette Avenue Friends and Brooklyn Preparative Meetings (Orthodox) Records, 1861-1959 (inclusive)

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1.7 linear ft. (23 volumes plus one box)
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Records of Lafayette Avenue Friends Meeting and its predecessor, Brooklyn Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1861-1959. Includes: Minutes 1869-1959; Vital Records 1857-1957; Sunday School Records 1861-1921; Young Peoples Association, 1892-1897; Christian Endeavor Society 1825-1934; Ladies League, 1911-1941; Pastoral Committee 1906-1959; bulletins, 1932-59; and Correspondence and Papers 1895-1979.

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Lee Preparative Meeting Records, 1840-1871 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.08 linear ft. (1 volumes)
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Records of Lee Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1840-1871. Includes: Minutes 1840-1871 and a library record..

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Lincoln Preparative Meeting Records, 1852-1871 (inclusive)

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0.15 linear ft.
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Records of Lincoln Preparative Meeting, 1852-1871. Includes: Minutes (men's), 1857-1871; women's minutes, 1852-1866.

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Lockport Preparative Meeting Records, 1825-1877 (inclusive)

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0.3 linear ft. (>3 volumes)
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Records of Lockport Preparative Meeting (Orthodox and pre-Separation), 1825-1877. Includes minutes (men's) 1850-1877, and women's minutes, 1825-1865.

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Lowville Preparative Meeting Records, 1844-1860 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.1 linear ft. (1 volumes)
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Records of Lowville Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1844-1860. Includes: Women's minutes, 1844-1860.

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Mamaroneck Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records , 1777-1891 (inclusive)

Extent:
1.4 linear ft. (8 volumes)
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Records of the Hicksite branch of Mamaroneck Preparative Meeting, 1777-1891. Includes men's minutes, 1777-1865, and women's and joint minutes, 1828-1891.

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Manhasset Preparative Meeting Records, 1784-1961 (inclusive)

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2 linear ft. (11 volumes)
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Records of Manhasset Preparative Meeting, 1784-1961. Includes: Men's and joint minutes, 1800-1961, and Women's minutes, 1784-1886.

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Mendon Preparative Meeting Records, 1833-1914 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.5 linear ft. (4 volumes)
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Records of Mendon Preparative Meeting, 1833-1914. Includes minutes men's and joint, 1833-1914, women's minutes, 1833-1869, Property dispute correspondence, 1955, and New York Supreme Court decisions, 1956-57.

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Peru Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) Records, 1799-1867 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 linear ft. (5 volumes)
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Records of Peru Monthly Meeting, 1799-1867 (Pre-Separation and Hicksite). Includes men's minutes 1828-67, women's minutes 1799-1866, vital records 1799-1839, and property records 1838.

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Jericho Monthly Meeting Records, 1789-1972 (inclusive)

Extent:
2.0 linear ft. (19 volumes)
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Records of Jericho Monthly Meeting, 1789-1953. Includes: men's, women's and joint minutes, 1789-1948; Vital records including births and deaths, 1811-88, membership 1796-1955, and marriages 1789-1972; Ministers and Elders records 1817-1953; Financial records 1817-1933; and a Weekend Conference register, 1911.

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New York Yearly Meeting at Poplar Ridge (Primitive) Records, 1853-1896 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.25 linear ft. (2 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of New York Yearly Meeting of Friends at Poplar Ridge 1853-1896. Includes Wilburite-Otisite minutes 1859-1896, and Wilburite Meeting for Sufferings minutes, 1853-1868.

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Jericho Preparative Meeting Records, 1787-1956 (inclusive)

Extent:
1.1 linear ft. (14 volume)
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Records of Jericho Preparative Meeting, 1787-1956. Includes: Minutes (men's & joint), 1787-1956; Women's minutes, 1834-1911; Financial records 1861-1910; and School Committee records 1787-1842.

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Purchase Quarterly Meeting Records, 1745-2023 (inclusive)

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11 linear ft. (28 volumes and 5 boxes) and 0.1 gb
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Records of Purchase Quarterly Meeting, 1745-ongoing. Includes minutes 1745-2023 (with many periods lacking) and miscellaneous material 1893-1992, including information on the Edward B. Underhill Fund, Peach Pond Meeting House, and the ministry at Taconic Correctional Facility

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Northern Quarterly Meeting (including Easton (Orthodox), Ferrisburgh, Glen Falls, and Saratoga (Orthodox)) Records, 1810-1986 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.75 linear ft. (8 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of Northern Quarterly Meeting, including its predecessors in Ferrisburgh Quarterly, Glen Falls Quarterly, Easton (Orthodox) Quarterly, and Saratoga (Orthodox) Quarterly. Includes men's, women's, and joint minutes, and ministers and elders' minutes.

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New York Preparative Meetings (Hicksite) for the [second] Northern District (1856-1881) and [second] Western District (1832-1856) Records, 1832-1881 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.25 linear ft. (5 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of the Preparative Meeting of New York for the Northern District (Hicksite : 1856-1881) and its predecessor, Preparative Meeting of New York for the Western District (Hicksite: 1832-1856). Includes: Minutes (men's & joint), 1832-1881, and women's minutes, 1832-1881.

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New York Congregational Meeting Records (including New York Preparative Meeting (Pre-Separation and Orthodox)), 1808-1957 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 linear ft. (36 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of the New York Congregational Meeting and its predecessor, New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-1957. Includes minutes, minutes of the Overseers and the Pastoral Committee, Reception/Visiting Committee, Mission Committee, First Day School (including the Bible-School Assn. of Friends & First Day School Assn.), financial Records and women's minutes of the Eastern District, 1808-1824, and Southern District, 1824-1828. Also includes miscellaneous records of the Friends Lyceum, Friends Freedmen's Association, and Christian Endeavor Society.

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Nine Partners Monthly Meeting Records, 1769-1997 (inclusive)

Extent:
4 linear ft. (26 volumes (plus 8 folders))
Abstract:
Records of Nine Partners Monthly Meeting and its Orthodox and pre-Separation predecessors, 1769-1971. Includes: minutes (men's and joint), 1769-1820 & 1828-1971, women's minutes, 1794-1811, 1828-37 & 1863-83, minutes of Ministers & Elders, 1889-1923, and vital records 1769-1963.

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Nine Partners Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records, 1782-1882 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.75 linear ft. (6 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of Nine Partners Preparative Meeting (Hicksite and pre-Separation), 1782-88 and 1828-82. Includes men's minutes 1782-88 and 1829-79; and women's minutes 1828-82.

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Nine Partners Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records, 1812-1883 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.83 linear ft. (7 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of Nine Partners Preparative Meeting (Orthodox & pre-Separation), 1812-1883. Includes men's minutes, 1812-1850, and women's minutes, 1820-83.

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North Castle Preparative Meeting Records, 1796-1872 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.65 linear ft. (5 volumes (plus one folder))
Abstract:
Records of North Castle Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1796-1872. Includes: men's minutes, 1796-1872, and women's minutes, 1796-1871.

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Saratoga Preparative Meeting Records, 1831-1867 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.08 linear ft. (2 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of Saratoga Preparative Meeting, 1831-1869. Includes: Minutes, 1831-1867, and women's minutes, 1836-1867.

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Starksborough Monthly Meeting Records, 1739-1905 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.5 linear ft. (6 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of Starksborough Monthly Meeting, 1739-1905. Includes men's minutes 1813-38; and vital records 1739-1905.

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Rochester Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records, 1821-1896 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.6 linear ft. (4 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of Rochester Preparative Meeting, 1821-1896. Includes: men's minutes, 1821-79; women's minutes, 1840-80; and joint minutes, 1879-96.

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Westbury Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records, 1828-1947 (inclusive)

Extent:
4 linear ft. (10 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of Westbury Monthly Meeting, 1828-1947. Includes minutes, 1828-1937, and vital records, 1828-1947. Pre-Separation and Hicksite records described in QM-NY-W453.

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Western Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records, 1843-1871 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 linear ft. (5 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of Western Monthly Meeting, 1843-71. Includes minutes, 1843-71; vital records, 1843-71; and financial records, 1843-71.

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Westmoreland Monthly Meeting Records (including Bridgewater (Pre-Separation and Orthodox) and New Hartford), 1817-1920 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 linear ft. (9 volumes(2 folders))
Abstract:
Records of Westmoreland Monthly Meeting and its Pre-Separation and Orthodox predecessors, 1867-1924. Includes minutes, 1817-1920; vital records, 1818-85; and miscellaneous items, 1827-1914.

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Yorktown and Amawalk (Orthodox) Monthly Meetings Records, 1798-1941 (inclusive)

Extent:
1.3 linear ft. (12 volumes)
Abstract:
Records of Yorktown Monthly Meeting and its predecessor, Amawalk Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1798-1941. Includes: minutes, 1830-1941; women's minutes, 1828-1878; vital records, 1798-1907; and minutes of Ministers and Elders, 1835-1869.

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Smedley Family Papers, 1751-1996 (inclusive) 1821-1950 (bulk)

Extent:
12 linear ft. (23 boxes plus photographs)
Abstract:
The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Smedley family, a large and prominent Quaker family of Penncrest Farm, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The family was related to the Kite and Sharples/Sharpless families of Chester and Delaware Counties. The papers include significant correspondence of the Kite family, especially Thomas Kite (1785-1845) and Mary Kite (1792-1861), both prominent Quaker ministers, and Thomas's daughter, Susanna Kite (1809-1844) who married Aaron Sharpless. Their daughter, Elizabeth S. Sharpless married Edward G. Smedley of Middletown, thus merging the Smedley-Sharples-Kite families. In the 20th century, the property became the home of Edward Smedley's nephew, Walter Smedley (1862-1939), a Philadelphia architect, and his wife, Ida Wilkins Roberts Smedley (1896-1993). She married second C. Canby Balderston. The papers cover a wide range of subjects...(see more)

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Mira Sharpless Townsend Papers, 1815-1858 (bulk) 1806-1910 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Abstract:
The collection contains papers of Mira Sharpless Townsend, a major Quaker social activist and reformer in Philadelphia. Mira Sharpless Townsend (1798-1859) was born in Philadelphia, attended Friends Select School, and in 1828 married Samuel Townsend (1800-1887). He was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting by whom she had six children, only two surviving to adulthood: Emily Sharpless Townsend who married Powell Stackhouse and Clara Gordon Townsend, married William Penn Troth. During the 1840's, Mira Townsend became an active and vocal social activist who wrote and published a variety of poetry and articles which reflected her strong views regarding women, slavery, temperance and capital punishment. She also was the driving force behind the founding of the Rosine Association. In January 1847, at a meeting of the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, she announced her desire to form a society "to open a house for the reformation, employment and instruction of...(see more)

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Hunn-Karsner Family Papers, 1809-1985 (inclusive) 1947-1974 (bulk)

Extent:
4.75 linear ft. (10 boxes)
Abstract:
The collection contains correspondence, writings, and other papers of the family of Ezekiel Hunn and Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn, Philadelphia and Delaware Quakers. The papers were compiled by their granddaughter Katherine Hunn Karsner (1899-1993). She was a Philadelphia Quaker minister and married Joseph Reed Karsner in 1930 under the care of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). The bulk of the collection is composed of correspondence from their daughter, Mary Ann Karsner Kegler (1932-1983) who moved to Alaska in 1950 and was one of the founders of Chena Ridge Monthly Meeting. The collection also contains earlier family correspondence between Ezekiel and Lydia Jenkins Hunn and other members of the Hunn family. The writings include diaries and writings by Katherine Hunn Karsner, her sister Lydia Hunn Williamson, Joseph Karsner, and Mary Ann Karsner Kegler.

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Sharpless-Reeve family papers, 1852-1957 (inclusive)

Extent:
2.5 linear ft. (5 boxes)
Abstract:
The collected papers of the Sharpless and Reeve family of New Jersey and Philadelphia. Much of the correspondence is between Edward Sharpless (1831-1894), a New Jersey Quaker minister, and his sister, Anna N. Sharpless, who married John Newbold Reeve in 1857. Their daughter, Mary Offley Reeve, worked as a school teacher when young and became involved in temperance and evangelical Christianity. She shared these interests, reflected in diaries and other writings, with Annie Way Smith, a long-time friend and member of Fishertown Monthly Meeting. The collection illustrates Quaker responses to early twentieth century social and religious trends.

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

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Byberry Philosophical Society Minutes, 1837-1925, 1927-1959 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 volumes
Abstract:
Minutes of the Byberry Philosophical Society which was formed in the early nineteenth century for the "acquisition and promotion of scientific knowledge." The group collected specimens of flora, fauna, minerals, and items of historic interest and eventually erected a building to hold the collection. Almost all of their members were Quakers, but this was not a condition of membership.

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

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Francis H. Schell drawings, circa 1850-1905

Extent:
3.67 linear feet
Abstract:
Francis H. Schell (1834-1909) was an artist, illustrator, and lithographer who worked out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York, New York. Many of Schell's works illustrating scenes from Civil War battles and camps were printed in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper from 1861 to 1865. Schell's work also appeared in The Century Magazine. The Francis H. Schell drawings, circa 1850-1905, consist primarily of original artwork with some prints and writings, all of which reflect Schell's career as an artist and illustrator. The collection mostly depicts the artist's interpretation of Civil War scenes and individuals, but other events and subject matter is also portrayed.

Held at: Philadelphia History Museum [Contact Us]

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Joseph F. A. Jackson papers, circa 1800-1945 (bulk 1890-1945)

Extent:
1.5 linear feet
Abstract:
Joseph Francis Ambrose Jackson (1867-1946) was an historian, lecturer, artist, and writer active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jackson wrote numerous articles for the Public Ledger relating to Philadelphia history and architecture, and authored several books and writings in other publications on the same subject. The Joseph F. A. Jackson papers, circa 1800-1945 (bulk 1890-1945), consist largely of scrapbooks and photographs. Some prints, drawings, and watercolors; books, pamphlets, and magazines; and a small amount of materials related to Jackson's books such as manuscripts and galleys are also present in the collection.

Held at: Philadelphia History Museum [Contact Us]

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