Call Number:

NY.B855

Repository:

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

Extent:

2.1 linear ft.

Date:

1799-2013 (inclusive)

Creator:

Bulls Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Clinton Corners, N.Y.)

Abstract:

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.

Oswego Monthly Meeting was established in 1799, set off from Nine Partners Monthly Meeting. Oswego Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) changed its name to Bulls Head-Oswego in 1980. This meeting remains active. Oswego Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) became Poughkeepsie Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) in 1870. This meeting also remains active.

Records of Bulls Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Oswego Monthly Meeting and Oswego Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). Includes: minutes, men's and joint, 1826-1996/2009-2013; 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.

Divided into series: Minutes: 1.1 1828-1843, 1.2 1843-1872, 1.3 1872-1923, 1.4 1926-1931, 1.5 1926-1938. 1.6 1938-1954, 1.7 1954-1966, 1.8 1966-1976, 1.9 1976-1982, 1.10 1983-1989, 1.11 1992-1996, 1.12 Minute of incorporation 1991, 1.13 2009-10, 1.14 2011-13; women's minutes: 2.1 1799-1817, 2.2 1817-1835, 2.3 1835-1857, 2.4 1857-1874, 2.5 1874-1887; vital records: 3.1 Marriages 1799-1900 & Intents 1799-1850, 3.2 Marriages and Removals 1809-1875, 3.3 Births and Deaths 1810-1933 & Marriages and Removals 1875-1917, 3.4 Births and Deaths 1927-1980, 3.5 Removals 1979-1995, 3.6 Letters of transfer 1814-1876; records of the meeting of Ministers & Elders: 4.1 Minutes 1833-1859, 4.2 Minutes, 1890-1910; records of the Oswego Institute: 5.1 Account Book, 1861-1862, 5.2 Account Book 1862-1863; 5.3 Account book, 1860-1861; Records of Moore's Mills Friends Association: 6.1 1899-1907; Newsletter: 7.1 1980-89 and 1995; Miscellaneous: 8.1 Recorder's Correspondence 1939-60, 8.2 Oswego Cemetery Assn 1926-62, 8.3 Shadrach Ricketson Bequest Records1883-84/1929-31, 8.4 History 1970; Property & Financial: 9.1 Materials re: Garden Hollow Cemetery 1876-1931, 9.2 Misc. Subscriptions 1783-1983, 9.3 Deeds 1835-1981.