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Flushing 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
Flushing Monthly Meeting was reestablished in 1805, set off from New York Monthly, under Westbury Quarterly Meeting. The Orthodox branch was laid down in 1830, members attached to New York Monthly Meeting. Flushing Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) was reunited with the Orthodox branch when Westbury and New York Quarterly meetings reunited in 1957. Flushing Monthly Meeting remains active to date.
Records of Flushing Monthly Meeting, 1725-2023, include minutes 1675-2022, membership and vital records 1725-2001, subscription records and financial records from 1772-2002, a significant collection of property records related to the historic meeting house and Flushing Friends Cemetery / burial ground (1676-2013), some committee records (including Trustee records and Bylaws/Incorporation), newsletters and histories of the meeting, and the records of the People of Color Worship and Reflection Group under Flushing's care.
Divided into series: Vital Records (including membership), Minutes (Men's and Joint Session), Women's Minutes (through 1899), Ministry and Oversight and its predecessors, Financial Records, Property Records, Committees, People of Color Worship & Reflection Group, Trustees, and Miscellaneous.
Transferred from Haviland Records Room by NYYM in 1997.
Deposit, 1997. Additional minutes, property, and trustee records deposited by Flushing in 2024.
Organization
- Flushing Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1805-1828 : Flushing, New York, N.Y.)
- Flushing Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : Flushing, New York, N.Y.)
- Flushing Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1957- : Flushing, New York, N.Y.)
- Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends : approximately 1671-1828 : New York, N.Y.)
Subject
Place
- 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
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Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.
- Use Restrictions
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Copyright has not been assigned to the Repositories All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
Collection Inventory
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY160
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY255
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 volume and 1 envelope of enclosures
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Microfilm contains Marriages 1806-1870.
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY160
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY52
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY160
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre/Hicksite
Folder of duplicates included.
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY255
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre/Hicksite
Births (1873-1967), admissions (1877-1975), removals (1938-1980), deaths (1953-1973).
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY255
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre/Hicksite/United
Births (1876-1971), admissions (1877-1978), removals (1950-1980), deaths (1956-1981).
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY255
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre/Hicksite/United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Typed copy. List of Quakers enrolled in the town clerk office, NYC.
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Extracts by Elias H. Underhill 1888.
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY51
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY52
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY253
1 volume and 1 envelope of enclosures
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY254
1 volume and 1 envelope of enclosures
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY254
1 volume and 1 document binder of enclosures
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Pages removed from original binder.
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY254
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY255
1 volume and 1 envelope of enclosures
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
2 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
11 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Some months Flushing did not hold a business meeting.
Physical Description10 folder
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY160
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY160
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY160
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY255
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY255
1 volume in box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY255
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY255
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY256
1 volume and 1 envelope of enclosures
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
2 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY256
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY256
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
More complete financial records available at Flushing Meeting House.
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre/Hicksite
Original blueprint of first floor, photocopies of alternate views and details.
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Some photographs, some originals.
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre/Hicksite
1 folder
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 certificate, in flat file
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 oversize folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 oversize folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 oversize folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 oversize folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 oversize folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder, 1 oversize folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 oversize folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder, 1 oversize folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
As part of some stabilization work on the building, a limited archaeological test excavation was done by Susan Mayer, of the New York University Department of Anthropology.
Physical Description1 folder
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
The historic meeting house porch was restored in 2009, a limited archeological study by Dr. Eugene Boesch was prepared in 2008 for Kaitsen Woo Architects.
Physical Description1 folder
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes a 2009 archaeological study done by Historical Perspectives, Inc. for a proposed development at 136-33 37th Ave. that would abut the property line of Flushing Friends Burial Ground. Also includes the Archaeological Testing Agreement signed by Flushing.
During construction, there was trespassing and desecration to the burial ground by the developer project, and as part of a settlement an additional archeaological study was done in 2012 to investigate and document damage. A partial radar survey was done of the burial ground and a CD of surface headstones is included.
Physical Description3 folders (including 1 CD)
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 volume and 1 envelope of enclosures
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 volume and 1 envelope of enclosures
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Includes the 2021 report, plus the Committee's work to complicate a planned documentary film by Eaton Creatie on the Flushing Remonstrance. The Committee expressed concern that praising John Bowne as a champion of human rights ignores his actions as an enslaver.
Physical Description1 folder
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
"Founding Covenant: POC is envisioned as being as Worship Group conducted strictly in the manner of Friends under the care of Flushing Monthly Meeting [...] While striving to adhere responsibly to Quaker traditional principles and practice, POC is committed to discerning newand imaginative structures, formulations and processed mined from the rich heritage of People of Color in America"
The People of Color Worship and Reflection Group began holding business meetings in February 2023.
1 folder
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY256
1 volume in box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
5 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
3 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
By R.W. Harrington. A study of the Remonstrance prepared by the Townspeople of Flushing 1657.
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Written by Linda Shirley for the Flushing Meeting website.
Physical Description1 folder
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College