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Stamford-Greenwich Monthly Meeting Records

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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.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
NY.S721
Repository:
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
3 linear ft.
Date:
1956-2002 (inclusive)
Creator:
Stamford-Greenwich Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Stamford, Conn.)
Abstract:
Records of Stamford-Greenwich Monthly Meeting, 1956-2002.

In 1948 a meeting for worship was held at the home of Jack LeRoy deForest in Stamford, Connecticut. It begame a preparative meeting in 1949. Stamford Monthly Meeting was set off from Purchase Monthly Meeting in 1953. In the late 1990s, membership began to decline; the Meeting was laid down by Purchase Quarterly Meeting in November of 2010.

Records of Stamford-Greenwich Monthly Meeting. Includes Membership records 1980-1989; Minutes 1956-1989; Newsletters 1965-1968/1984-1989 (gaps); State of the Meeting Reports 1960-1967, 1986; Miscellaneous 1950-2002.

Divided into series: Vital Records: 1.1 1890-1989, 1.2 1890-2002. 1.3 1982-1992; Minutes: 2.1 1956-1958, 2.2 1959-1960, 2.3 1961, 2.4 1962-1965, 2.5 1969-1972, 2.6 1975-1977, 2.7 1977-1979, 2.8 1979-1980, 2.9 1980-1981, 2.10 1981-1982, 2.11 1983-1984, 2.12 1985, 2.13 1986, 2.14 1987, 2.15 1988-1989; Newsletters: 3.1 1965-1968, 3.2 1984-1989 (gaps). State of Meeting Reports: 4.1 1960-1967, 1986; Miscellaneous: 5.1 1949-1998 (gaps), 5.2 c.1956, 1988, 5.3 1998, 5.4 c.1983-1987, 5.5 c.1955-c.1980, 5.6 c.1998, 5.7 1973, 5.8 1998, 5.9 1950, 5.10 1975, 5.11 c.1950-c.1990.

Transferred from Haviland Records Room by NYYM in 1997.

Deposit, 1997.

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.

Use Restrictions

Information on reproduction policies available in the library.

Collection Inventory

RG2/NY/S721 1.1. Membership Records: Index; Records #1-75, 1890-1989.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Records not organized alphabetically; consult index to determine correct record numbers

Existence and Location of Copies
  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
Physical Description

1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 1.2. Membership Records #76-188, 1890-2002.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Records not organized alphabetically; consult index (RG2/NY/S721 1.1) to determine correct record numbers

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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 1.3. Miscellaneous membership correspondence, 1982-1992.
Box 1
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1 folder

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RG2/NY/S721 2.1. Minutes, 1956-1958.
Box 1
Existence and Location of Copies
  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 2.2. Minutes, 1959-1960.
Box 1
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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 2.3. Minutes, 1961.
Box 1
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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 2.4. Minutes, 1962 - November 1965.
Existence and Location of Copies
  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Volume

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RG2/NY/S721 2.5. Minutes, June 1969 - 1972.
Scope and Contents

Pages tipped into vol. in reverse chronological order (1969 minutes at the back of the book; 1972 minutes at the front of the book)

Existence and Location of Copies
  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Volume

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RG2/NY/S721 2.6. Minutes, June 1975 - February 1977.
Scope and Contents

Pages tipped into vol. in reverse chronological order

Existence and Location of Copies
  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Volume

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RG2/NY/S721 2.7. Minutes, March 1977 - February 1979.
Box 1
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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 2.8. Minutes, March 1979 - June 1980.
Box 1
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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 2.9. Minutes, July 1980 - June 1981.
Box 1
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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 2.10. Minutes, July 1981 - 1982.
Box 2
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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 2.11. Minutes, 1983 -1984.
Box 2
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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 2.12. Minutes, 1985.
Box 2
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 2.13. Minutes, 1986.
Box 2
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 2.14. Minutes, 1987.
Box 2
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 2.15. Minutes, 1988-1989.
Box 2
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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 3.1. Newsletters, 1965-1968.
Box 3
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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 envelope

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RG2/NY/S721 3.2. Newsletters, 1984-1989 (gaps).
Box 3
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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 4.1. State of Meeting Reports, 1960-1967, 1986.
Box 3
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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 5.1. Stamford-Greenwich Friends Archive Material, 1949-1998 (gaps).
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes information about meeting anniversary celebrations, list of meeting clerks 1949-1984, articles about meeting for business and clerkship

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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 5.2. Meetinghouse History, c. 1956, 1988.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Contains a pamphlet about renovation of meeting house, and "First Baptist Church to Friends Meeting House: The Evolution of a Site" (Report compiled by Judith F. Abraham, Yale University.)

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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 5.3. Stamford Greenwich Quaker Meeting, by Errett Dunlap, January 1998.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Oral history as told to Rhoda Jenkins. Life in the one-room school house under the tutorship of Mary B. Daly.

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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 5.4. Concern: Peace, c. 1983 - 1987.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes information about Peace Library and Children's Non-Violent Responses to Violence educational program

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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 5.5. Histories of Connecticut Meetings, c.1955 - c.1980.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Brief histories of Quakers in Connecticut. 3 or 4 different versions of history of Stamford-Greenwich. Brief histories of Wilton, New London, Housatonic, and Middletown meetings.

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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Folder

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RG2/NY/S721 5.6. Fifty-Year Memoir of a Connecticut Friends Meeting Based on 1948-1998 Entries from the Diary of John L. Deforest.
Box 3 Box 4
Scope and Contents

Manuscript divided into 3 folders. Includes preface, introduction, and appendix.

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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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3 folders

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Affiliation: United

RG2/NY/S721 5.7. Scrapbook, 1973.
Box 4
Existence and Location of Copies
  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 volume in box

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RG2/NY/S721 5.8. Stamford-Greenwich Meeting Scrapbook Vol. II, June 1998.
Box 4
Existence and Location of Copies
  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 volume in box

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RG2/NY/S721 5.9. Scrapbook, 1950.
Box 4
Existence and Location of Copies
  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 volume in box

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RG2/NY/S721 5.10. Christmas Scrapbook, 1975.
Box 4
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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 volume in box

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RG2/NY/S721 5.11. Photographs, c.1950-c.1990.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Photographs of meetinghouse and members; some unidentified.

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  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
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1 Folder

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Affiliation: United

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