Call Number:

NY.F678

Repository:

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

Extent:

0.75 linear ft. (10 volumes (plus 2 folders))

Language Note:

These records are entirely in English

Date:

1777-1886 (inclusive)

Creator:

Flushing Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1886 : Flushing, N.Y.)

Abstract:

Records of Flushing Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and its predecessor, the pre-Separation Flushing Preparative Meeting. Includes: minutes 1777-1886, women's minutes, 1808-1860, and school fund accounts, 1792-1816.

The date of establishment of Flushing Preparative Meeting is unknown, but it was in existance before 1777. The Hicksite branch was laid down in 1908. The Orthodox branch was discontinued in 1886, members attached to New York Preparative Meeting (Hicksite)

Records of Flushing Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and its predecessor, the pre-Separation Flushing Preparative Meeting. Includes: minutes 1777-1886, women's minutes, 1808-1860, and school fund accounts, 1792-1816.

Divided into series: Minutes (men's and joint): 1.1 1777-1786, 1.2 1787-1795, 1.3 1795-1804, 1.4 1829-1839, 1.5 1853-1870, 1.6 1870-1884, 1.7 1885-1886, 1.8 Extract 1829; Women's minutes: 2.1 1808-1835, 2.2 1836-1860; Financial records: 3.1 School Fund Account 1792-1816, 3.2 Account note 1813.