Call Number:

NY.G755

Repository:

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

Extent:

0.8 linear ft. (2 boxes)

Date:

1976-1997 (inclusive)

Creator:

Green Haven Friends Meeting (Stormville, N.Y.)

Abstract:

Records of Green Haven Friends Meeting. Includes: minutes 1976, and miscellansoue records.

A formal Friends meeting was first held in 1976 at Green Haven Correctional Facility. The worship meeting began as part of the Quaker Project on Community Conflict, designed to train people incarcerated at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in processes of non-violent resolution, but continued after 1976 as a more traditional Quaker worship group.

It remains active as the Green Haven Prison Preparative Meeting under care of New York Yearly Meeting.

Records of Green Haven Friends Meeting includes minutes, reports, and member lists for worship call-out, records from the New York Yearly Meeting related to administrative problems at the prison impacting the ability for worship to be regularly held, and Mary Foster Cadbury's personal files related to incarcerated Friends at the prison.