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Central Finger Lakes Monthly Meeting Records

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

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

In 1986, a group began to meet as Penn Yan/Geneva Quaker Worship Group in local homes. In 1987, Farmington-Scipio Regional Meeting approved the group's application to become a monthly meeting. The meeting was laid down by approval of the regional meeting at the Winter Gathering of January 2023.

Records of Central Finger Lakes Monthly Meeting, 1987-2023. Records include newsletters, business minutes and related reports from Ministry & Counsel and Treasurer, membership-related records, Ministry & Counsel Committee records, and some history materials and other miscellaneous records.

Transferred from Haviland Records Room by NYYM in 1997. Additional deposit (2019) from Michael Wajda. Final deposit (2022) at laying down of meeting.

Deposits, 1997, 2019, 2022.

Publisher
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
Inventory prepared by: FHL Staff
Finding Aid Date
2007
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.

Use Restrictions

Information on reproduction policies available in the library. Ministry and Counsel records restricted for 25 years from date of creation.

Collection Inventory

RG2/NY/C373 2.1-2.2. Membership Records, 1986-1990.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes requests for membership, requests and certificates for transfer, resignations, and traveling minutes and letters of introduction.

Physical Description

2 folders

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/NY/C373. Marriages, 2007-2008.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 folder

RG2/NY/C373 2.4. Memorial minutes, 1991-2022.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 folder

RG2/NY/C373 2.5. Member Record Forms (inactive), 1987-2020.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 folder

RG2/NY/C373 2.6. Statistical Reports, 1996-1999.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/NY/C373 1.1-1.7. Minutes, 1987-2014.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Minutes often also include an agenda and the treasurer's report and budget and ministry and counsel reports. As a small meeting, many things (prison visitation, annual budget planning etc.) were discerned through the full business meeting, and membership-related records and clerk's correspondence are also present in the files.

Physical Description

7 folders

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/NY/C373 1.8. Minutes, 2015-2020.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Minutes often also include an agenda and the treasurer's report and budget and ministry and counsel reports. As a small meeting, many things (prison visitation, annual budget planning etc.) were discerned through the full business meeting, and membership-related records and clerk's correspondence are also present in the files.

Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/NY/C373 3.1. Minutes and reports, 1999-2017.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

While this file is restricted alongside the rest of the series, duplicate and abridged reports from the committee to the Monthly Meeting can be found in the open Business Minutes.

Physical Description

1 folder

RG2/NY/C373 3.2-3.4. Clearness and Care Committees, 2004-2020.
Box 3
Physical Description

3 folders

RG2/NY/C373 4.2. Miscellaneous history materials, 1987-1991.
Box 2
RG2/NY/C373 4.3. Rochester minute re tax exemption, 1987.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 folder

RG2/NY/C373 4.1. Peace Walk Materials, 1990-1991.
Box 2
RG2/NY/C373 4.4. State of the Meeting reports, 1991-2020.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 folder

RG2/NY/C373 4.7. State of the Society Report, 1996-1999.
Box 3
Physical Description

1 folder

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/NY/C373 4.5. Meeting Handbook, 2008.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 folder

RG2/NY/C373. Treasurer's Reports (digital), 2020-2021.
Physical Description

5 .rtf files

RG2/NY/C373. Letter to Friends about laying down the Meeting (digital), 2022.
Physical Description

1 .rtf file

RG2/NY/C373 4.6. Minute laying down Central Finger Lakes Friends Meeting, 2023.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

A minute approved by Farmington Scipio Regional Meeting Winter Gathering (January 21, 2023) laying down Central Finger Lakes Meeting.

RG2/NY/C373 5.1-5.4. Newsletters, 1987-2009.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Some gaps, particularly post 2006.

Physical Description

4 folders

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

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