Call Number:

NY.G655

Repository:

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

Extent:

2.5 linear ft. (30 volumes)

Date:

1800-1970 (inclusive)

Creator:

Glens Falls Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Glens Falls, N.Y.)

Abstract:

Records of Glens Falls Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, the pre-Separation and Orthodox branches of Queensbury Monthly Meeting, 1800-1970. Includes: Minutes 1800-1970; Vital Records 1790-1952, including births & deaths, 1790-1906, membership, 1854-1952, and marriages & removals, 1806-55; Ministers and Elders minutes, 1892-1970; records of Mission Aid societies, 1920-51; Young Friends Fellowship, 1950-53.

Queensbury Monthly Meeting was established in 1800, set off from Easton Monthly Meeting. It was a part of Easton Quarterly Meeting until Saratoga Quarterly was established in 1815. The Hicksite branch was laid down in 1863, members attached to Saratoga Monthly. The Orthodox branch changed its name to Glens Falls Monthly in 1877. It merged with South Glens Falls Monthly Meeting to form Adirondack Friends Meeting in 1974.

Records of Glens Falls Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, the pre-Separation and Orthodox branches of Queensbury Monthly Meeting, 1800-1970. Includes: Minutes 1800-1970; Vital Records 1790-1952, including births & deaths, 1790-1906, membership, 1854-1952, and marriages & removals, 1806-55; Ministers and Elders minutes, 1892-1970; records of Mission Aid societies, 1920-51; Young Friends Fellowship, 1950-53.

Divided into Series: Minutes (men's & joint): 1.1 1800-1811, 1.2 1811-1818, 1.3 1818-1840, 1.4 1840-1878, 1.5 1897-1912, 1.6 1912-1937, 1.7 1937-1945, 1.8 1945-1950, 1.9 1959-1970; Women's minutes: 2.1 1800-1811, 2.2 1828-1829, 2.3 1829-1844, 2.4 1844-1854, 2.5 1854-1876; Vital records: 3.1 Births and Deaths 1790-1906, 3.2 Membership 1854-1952, 3.3 Marriages and Removals 1806-1855, 3.4 Miscellaneous 1844-1908; Ministry and Counsel: 4.1 Ministers and Elders 1892-1911, 4.2 Pastoral Committee 1905-1914, 4.3 Pastoral Committee 1914-1944, 4.4 Ministry and Counsel 1944-1957, 4.5 Ministry and Counsel 1957-1967, 4.6 Ministry and Counsel 1967-1970; Christian Endeaver Society: 5.1 1904-1909; Mission Aid Societies: 6.1 Women's Foreign Mission Society 1920-1931, 6.2 Women's Missionary Society 1941-1951, 6.3 Ladies Aid Society 1925-1944, 6.4 Home and Foreign Mission Auxilary 1922-1934; Young Friends Fellowship: 7.1 1951-1953, 7.2 Conference 1950-1953; Property: 8.1 Properties and Transcripts 1772-1956; Annual Reports: 9.1 1964-66; Miscellaneous: 10.1 Library record 1860, 10.2 Phil Kiliru Scholarship 1964-65, 10.3 Correspondence 1974, 10.4 Bicentennial 1967.