Call Number:

NY.A410

Repository:

Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Extent:

0.8 linear ft. (6 volumes)

Date:

1840-1915 (inclusive)

Creator:

Albany Executive Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1840-1915 : Albany, N.Y.)

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.

The first Albany Monthly Meeting was established in 12mo 1840, set off from Coeymans Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). It changed to an Executive Meeting (meeting quarterly) in 1894, and began to meet half-yearly in 1902. It was laid down in 1915 and its members were joined to New York Monthly Meeting.

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.

Divided into series: Minutes (men's & joint): 1.1 1840-1894, 1.2 1894-1915; women's minutes: 2.1 1840-1869; vital records:, 3.1 1840-1915; Ministers and Elders records: 4.1 1841-87, 4.2 1887-94; Property: 5.1 Deeds and Property Records 1898-1908; Misc.: 6.1 Correspondence 1856-1915.