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Housatonic Monthly Meeting Records (including Housatonic and Newton Preparatives)

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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

Call Number:
NY.H653
Repository:
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
  • 1.25 linear ft. (2 binders, 2 boxes, digital files)
  • 0.1 gb
Date:
1957-2023 (inclusive)
Creator:
Housatonic Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : New Milford, Conn.)
Abstract:
Records of Housatonic Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Housatonic Preparative Meeting and Newtown Preparative Meeting, 1957-ongoing. Includes minutes, newsletters, and state of the meeting reports. Beginning in 2021 records have been deposited digitally.

Newtown Preparative Meeting was established in 1957 as part of Wilton Monthly Meeting. In 1969 the meeting changed its name to Housatonic, and was granted Monthly Meeting status by Purchase Quarterly Meeting in 1971. This meeting remains active to date.

Transferred from Haviland Records Room by NYYM in 1997.

Deposit from NYYM, 1997. Additional accruals from Housatonic MM.

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

Where available, access is through microfilm or digital. 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/H653 1.1. Minutes, 1957-1968.
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY266
Physical Description

2 folders

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.2. Minutes, 1968-1977.
Volume 1.2
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY266
Physical Description

1 binder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.3. Minutes, 1978-1992.
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY266 (1978-1992)
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.4. Minutes, 1993-1997 (gaps).
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY266 (1978-1992)
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.5. Minutes, 1998-1999.
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY266 (1978-1992)
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.6. Minutes, 2000-2001.
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY266 (1978-1992)
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.7. Minutes, 2002-2003.
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY266 (1978-1992)
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.8. Minutes, 2004 (gaps).
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY266 (1978-1992)
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.9. Minutes, 2000-2006.
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY266 (1978-1992)
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.10. Minutes, 2007-2008.
Box 2
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY266 (1978-1992)
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.11. Minutes, 2009-2010.
Box 2
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY266 (1978-1992)
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.12. Minutes, 2011-2013 5mo.
Box 2
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY266 (1978-1992)
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.13. Minutes, 2013 6mo-12mo.
Box 2
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY266 (1978-1992)
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.14. Minutes, 2014.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.15. Minutes, 2015 1mo-11mo.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

AffiliationL United

RG2/NY/H653 1.16. Minutes, 2016.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.17. Minutes, 2017.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.18. Minutes, 2018.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653 1.19. Minutes, 2020.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/H653. Minutes (digital), 2021-2023. .01 GB.
Scope and Contents

First set of pdf files includes minutes for January through June 2021, as well as a fundraising note. Minutes for March 2021 include 2020's State of the Meeting report. Second set of PDF files includes the remaining 2021 minutes, all of 2022's minutes, and the State of the Meeting report from March 2022. Minutes for 2023, including State of Society, were deposited in January 2024.

Physical Description

.01 GB

RG2/NY/H653 2.1. Newsletter, 1992-1994.
Box 2
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/H653 2.2. State of Meeting reports, 1978-80, 1983, 1985.
Box 2
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/H653. State of the Meeting report (digital), 2021-2022.
Physical Description

2 PDF files

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