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Fifteenth Street Monthly Meeting Records

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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

Call Number:
NY.F561
Repository:
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
  • 3 linear ft.
  • 0.1 gb
Date:
1974-2023 (inclusive)
Creator:
Fifteenth Street Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1975- : New York, N.Y.)
Abstract:
Records of Fifteenth Street Monthly Meeting, 1974-. Includes: minutes, 1975-85/2015-2020 2mo, membership releases, 1974-96, Committee of Overseers Records and newsletter.

While the Monthly Meeting of New York, also known as Flushing until 1795, was well established by 1682, the date of its first arrangement is unknown. After 1828, at the time of the Hicksite Separation, there were two New York Monthly Meetings: the Orthodox met at Rutgers Medical College and later on Henry Street, and the Hicksites retained the Rose Street and Hester Street Meeting Houses. The 15th Street (Hicksite) and 20th Street (Orthodox) New York Monthly Meetings were reunited in 1958. In 1975, New York Monthly Meeting was reestablished as New York Quarterly Meeting, and New York Preparative Meeting was renamed New York Monthly Meeting. The meeting is currently active.

Records of Fifteenth Street Monthly Meeting, 1974-. Includes: minutes, 1975-85, membership releases, 1974-96, Committee of Overseers Records and newsletter.

Divided into series: Minutes: 1.1 1975-78, 1.2 1979-85, 1.3-1.6 2015-2020 2mo; Vital records: 2.1 Releases (A-K) 1974-79, 2.2 Releases (L-Z) 1974-79, 2.3 Releases (A-K) 1980-86, 2.4 Releases (L-Z) 1980-86, 2.5 Releases (A-K) 1987-96, 2.6 (L-Z); Committee of Overseers: 3.1 1976-90; Miscellaneous: 4.1 Newsletter 1973-2003, 4.2 Newsletter 2004-, 4.3 Misc. procedural papers 1975-79, 4.4 Histories 1921-69, 4.5 Subscriptions 1860-66, 4.6 Notes on centennial celebration 1961, 4.7 Plants at meeting house 1958; Toward Community Committee: 5.1-5.2; Finance and Property: 6.1 Papers re: 1861 building project 1856-1862, 6.2 Library bill of sale, 6.3 Miscellaneous property records 1834-1978; Peace Committee: 7.1 Misc. 1981-82.

Transferred from Haviland Records Room by NYYM in 1997. Additional accruals from 15th Street Monthly Meeting.

Deposit, 1997.

Organization
Subject

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

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

Use Restrictions

Information on reproduction policies available in the library.

Collection Inventory

RG2/NY/F561 2.1. Releases (A-K), 1974-1979.
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY252
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561 2.2. Releases (L-Z), 1974-1979.
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY252
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561 2.3. Releases (A-K), 1980-1986.
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY252
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561 2.4. Releases (L-Z), 1980-1986.
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY252
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561 2.5. Releases (A-K), 1987-1996.
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY252
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561 2.6. Releases (L-Z), 1987-1996.
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY252
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561 1.1. Minutes, 1975-1978.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY251
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561 1.2. Minutes, 1979-1985.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY251
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561 1.3-1.7. Minutes, 2015-2021 5mo.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Some gaps in 2020. Starting in June 2021 minutes and related reports are digital.

Physical Description

5 folders

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/NY/F561. Minutes (digital), 2021-2023.
Scope and Contents

Digital minutes June 2021 through December 2023. Minutes of the monthly business meeting were deposited along with other digital records of the meeting, all arranged in chronological order. Includes a Reprouctive Health Care special minute, plus State of the Meeting reports and occasional queries.

Physical Description

PDF and DOCX files, arranged chronologically

RG2/NY/F561 6.1. Papers re: 1861 building project, 1856-1862.
Box 4
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No film
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

RG2/NY/F561 6.2. Library bill of sale, n.d.
Box 4
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No film
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

RG2/NY/F561 6.3. Miscellaneous property records, 1834-1978.
Box 4 Box 5
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No film
Scope and Contents

Folder list: William Sutton deed of land, 1834; Middagh Estate Papers, 1834-1848; Jacob Platt and Henry Elliot, 1836; Subscriptions, 1860 (with resolution of Merritt-Willets dispute, 1869); Memorandum: list of trustees and sketch of burial plot, 1842; Insurance and fragile papers, 1850-1851; William Powell, deeds, wills, and legal papers, 1852-1912; Insurance, 1843-1927; Wills, deeds, court cases, 1862-1883; Property Committee Miscellaneous, 1867-1911; List of trustees turnovers, 1903-1912; NYYM Records COmmittee, 1904-1919; Division of Lake Placid real estate, 1914; Letter re: worth of Lake Placid property; Request for removal of dead tree, 1944; NYYM deed, 1960; Note to see Albany folder for Cemetery Association deed, 1978; Letter from Richard Powell, undated; News clipping: "George Currie's Brooklyn," undated

Physical Description

19 folders

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Hicksite

RG2/NY/F561. Financial records (digital), 2021-2023.
Scope and Contents

Financial records 2021-2023 were part of a larger deposit in early 2024, all files arranged chronologically. Financial records include occasional trustee reports, plus quarterly reports from the meeting Treasurer, and FY budget statements and reports.

RG2/NY/F561 3.1. Minutes, 1976-1990.
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No film
Physical Description

2 folders

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561 5.1-5.2. Miscellaneous, 1967-1984.
Box 3 Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes minutes, letters, prints, etc.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No film
Physical Description

18 folders

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561 7.1. Miscellaneous, 1981-1982.
Box 5
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No film
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561. Committee records (digital), 2021-2023.
Scope and Contents

Committee files were part of a larger deposit of digital records in early 2024. All records arranged chronologically.

Committee minutes and reports include the Care Relationship Committee (related to Friends Seminary), plus Communications, Friends in Unity with Nature, Handbook, Library, Nominating, Peace and Social Justice, Property, Religious Education, and Shelter

There are also reports from Ministry & Worship and ministers recorded by 15th Street.

RG2/NY/F561 4.1. Newsletter, 1973-1999.
Box 2
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No film
Physical Description

4 folders

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561 4.2. Newsletter, 2000-2009.
Box 3
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No film
Physical Description

4 folders

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561 4.3. Misc. procedural papers, 1975-1979.
Box 3
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No film
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561 4.4. Histories, 1921-1969.
Box 3
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No film
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561 4.5. Subscriptions, 1860-1866.
Box 3
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No film
Physical Description

1 folder

RG2/NY/F561 4.6. Notes on centennial celebration, 1961.
Box 3
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No film
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561 4.7. Plants at meeting house, 1958.
Box 3
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: No film
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/F561. Miscellaneous files (digital), 2021-2023.
Scope and Contents

A 2024 deposit primarily included minutes, committee records, and financial records, but also included some other files related to the meeting regarding FCNL, Zoom worship and the COVID-19 pandemic, and drafts and files related to a Quaker History project.

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