Call Number:

NY.M596

Repository:

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

Extent:

0.7 linear ft. (10 volumes and 1 folder)

Date:

1820-1963 (inclusive)

Creator:

Milton Executive Meeting (Society of Friends : Ulster County, N.Y.), Marlborough Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : approximately 1780-1828 : Marlborough, N.Y.), and Marlborough Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1888 : Ulster County, N.Y.)

Abstract:

Records of Milton Executive Meeting and its predecessors, Milton Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and Marlborough Preparative Meeting (pre-Separation and Orthodox), 1820-1963.

A meeting for worship at Newmarlborough was allowed by Nine Partners Monthly Meeting in 1776; the preparative meeting was in existence before 1780. It was set off under Creek Monthly Meeting in 3mo 1782, and then to Cornwall, when it in turn was established in 1788. It became part of Marborough Monthly Meeting in 1804. The name of Marlborough Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) was changed to Milton in 1888. Milton Executive Meeting was laid down in 1963.

Records of Milton Executive Meeting and its predecessors, Milton Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and Marlborough Preparative Meeting (pre-Separation and Orthodox), 1820-1963.

Divided into Series: Minutes (men's and joint): 1.1 1828-1833, 1.2 1833-1845, 1.3 1845-1856, 1.4 1876-1901, 1.5 1902-1921, 1.6 1921-1963; Women's minutes: 2.1 1820-1837, 2.2 1837-1862, 2.3 1863-1882; Milton Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor: 3.1 1896-1908; Finance and Property: 4.1 Sale of Highland Mills 1860-1938.