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Northeastern Regional Meeting Records (including Quaker Street Regional and its predecessors)
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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.
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In 1812, Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting was established, set off from Stanford Quarterly Meeting. At the 1828 Separation, Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. The Orthodox Branch of Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting was renamed Butternuts Quarterly in 1838, and its records are described in the collection for Butternuts Quarterly Meeting. Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite) began meeting half-yearly in 1902. In 1933, Duanesburg Half-Yearly Meeting changed its name to Quaker Street Half-Yearly and became Quaker Street Regional Meeting in 1972.
In 1986, Quaker Street Regional Meeting united with Northern Quarterly Meeting and Easton and Saratoga Half-Yearly Meeting to form Northeastern Regional Meeting. It is currently active.
Records of Northeastern Regional Meeting and some of its predecessors, Quaker Street Half-Yearly (Hicksite) and Regional Meetings, and Duanesburg Half Yearly and Quarterly Meetings (Hicksite and pre-Separation), 1812-ongoing. Records include minutes from men's, women's, and joint quarterly meetings for business as well as Ministers and Elders. Much of the collection consists of the files of the clerk of Quaker Street Half-Yearly Meeting in the 1950s and 1960s, including material related to the constituent meetings at the time. There is a gap in coverage from 1916-1943.
Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox) records, including some pre-Separation records retained by the Orthodox branch, are described in the collection of Butternuts Quarterly Meeting. Pre-1986 records from Northeastern Regional's predecessors in Northern Quarterly and Easton & Saratoga Half-Yearly are described separately as their own collections, with post-1986 records for the combined Northeastern Regional Meeting described here.
Records are arranged in three series by administrative chronology.
Included in Series I are Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting (1812-1828), Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite) (1828-1902), and Duanesburg Half-Yearly Meeting (1903-1933). Series II includes Quaker Street Half Yearly (1933-1972) and Quaker Street Regional Meeting (1972-1986). Series III includes records from Northeastern Regional Meeting (1986-ongoing) which was established out of Quaker Street Regional uniting with Northern Quarterly and Easton and Saratoga Half-Yearly Meetings.
Transferred from Haviland Records Room by NYYM in 1997.
Deposit, 1997.
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- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Date
- 2022
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Where available, access is through microfilm.
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Collection Inventory
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY375
This minute book includes pre-Separation minutes and was continued by the Hicksite branch of Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting after the 1828 Separation. In 1881, the Quarterly Meeting began holding joint men's and women's meeting for business, in the minute book previously used for the men's meeting.
Physical Description1 volume. Spine detached.
Material Specific DetailsPre-Separation/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY376
Minute book ends in 1881 with a note from 5th month that the joint [men's and women's] session had been satisfactory and would continue.
Physical Description1 volume and 1 envelope of enclosures
Material Specific DetailsPre-Separation/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY375
Regularly entered minutes end in 1916. On the following page is a 1927 note about bank deposits and a 1931 note about newly-received members, and the remainder of the book is blank.
Physical Description1 volume
Material Specific DetailsHicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY376
Volume 1 begins after the Separation as the prior Clerk of Ministers and Elders joined the Orthodox branch, bringing the pre-Separation minute book with him. (That minute book is available through the Butternuts Quarterly Meeting collection RG2/NY/B895 3.1) Minute book begins with the appointment of a new clerk in 8th month 1828.
Volume 2 (1897-1904) is mostly blank, with entries ending partway through 1904.
Physical Description2 volumes
Material Specific DetailsHicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY375
Minutes from 1953-1955 are typed and either tipped in or laid in.
Physical Description1 volume and 1 envelope of enclosures
Material Specific DetailsHicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY376
Looseleaf minute book begun in 1960. It begins with a history of Quaker Street Half-Yearly's meetings from 1935-1942, copied from the minute book that during the period was shared by the Half-Yearly and by Quaker Street Monthly Meeting. At the time of transcription, the shared minute book remained in the care of Quaker Street Monthly Meeting (it is now in the library's collection RG2/NY/Q331).
Following the abstract of minutes 1935-1942 and administrative correspondence related to the transcription project is a typescript copy of the Quaker Street Half-Yearly Meeting minute book from 1943-1955 (the original minute book is also present in another file). Beginning in October 1955 are what the meeting preserved as record copies, mostly carbon copies and photocopies. These minutes include membership statistics, financial summary information, reports from constituent monthly meetings, committee reports (including Ministry & Counsel), state of the meeting reports, and other records related to the functioning of the half-yearly and its monthly meetings.
The file was at one point in a three-ring binder (no longer present) and was numbered consecutively by an unknown hand.
Physical Description3 folders
Material Specific DetailsHicksite/United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY376
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsUnited
File includes minutes of Quaker Street Half-Yearly Meeting, business from New York Yearly Meeting for Quarterly and Half-Yearly Clerks, related information about membership and finances of the half-yearly and its constituent monthly meetings, and directories and discipline. 2.8 (1967-1969) has been paginated by an unknown hand and that order has been retained. 2.6 and 2.7 (1950-1967) include correspondence to/from the Clerk and Assistant Clerk and other records related to QSHYM other than sessions.
Physical Description3 folders
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Preparations files were maintained for each Half-Yearly Meeting session of Quaker Street. Files generally include agenda, minutes, and related correspondence and original order has been maintanied.
Physical Description12 folders
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Quaker Street Half-Yearly Meeting committee records include two folders of minutes and other records from Ministry and Counsel, one folder of records related to the Nominating Committee, and one folder labeled "General" that includes both Gerontology Committee records and records related to the Coordinating Committee of the HYM.
Physical Description4 folders
Material Specific DetailsUnited
File includes petitions and minutes related to broader concerns of interest to the HYM, including the reunification of New York Yearly Meeting, universal military training, and international relations.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsHicksite/United
1 folder
Includes general instructions on the statistical reports required by New York Yearly Meeting and some of the Half-Yearly Meeting's reports. The bulk of the folder is reports to QSHYM from its monthly meetings.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsHicksite/United
Records were maintained by monthly meeting and include a general folder (which includes a full directory of Quaker Street Half-Yearly Meeting), as well as files for Albany, Quaker Street Monthly Meeting, Schenectady, and Taghkanic-Hudson.
Physical Description5 folders
Material Specific DetailsHicksite/United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY376
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY376
Arranged roughly in reverse chronological order and numbered by an unknown hand, this folder is likely a clerk's file. It includes incomplete minutes, newsletters, the 1989 NYYM report form for regional clerks, and some event and directory information.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsUnited
This folder includes records kept by Northeastern Regional Meeting regarding the complicated situation of Monkton Ridge. Monkton Ridge Monthly Meeting evolved into something of a joint community church group in association with two nearby Methodist congregations, but by the mid-1990s no longer had sufficient Quaker members to continue the business of being a monthly meeting. Laying down the meeting involved complications of property, assets, and membership. Additional material can be found in the Monkton Monthly Meeting Records (QM-NY-M623).
This file includes surveys from members of Monkton Ridge Meeting (largely those who regarded themselves as Methodist and did not realize they were not formally affiliated), correspondence regading the properties, deeds, and assets at issue, background material attempting to trace the organizational hierarchy of Monkton Ridge, and minutes of Northeastern Regional Meeting's Monkton Ridge Oversight Committee.
Physical Description1 folder
Material Specific DetailsUnited
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsUnited