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Westbury 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
Although the earliest records have been lost, Westbury Monthly Meeting may have been established as early as 1682. In 1828 it divided into Orthodox and Hicksite branches. The Orthodox branch was laid down in 1938, and what had been the Hicksite branch continues to the present day.
Records of Westbury Monthly Meeting, 1660-ongoing.
Records of the Orthodox branch (active 1828-1938) are described in a separate finding aid, following the arrangement by New York Yearly Meeting's Haviland Records Room from where the records were received in 1997.
Westbury Monthly Meeting records include a large number (150+) of manumission certificates, which were legal documents signed by Quaker enslavers emancipating (or promising future emancipation) of the people they enslaved. These records (both original certificates and the record register kept by the meeting) have been digitized, and the file also includes a number of mid-20th century transcripts and indices compiled by the meeting.
Volume 2.4 includes some earlier certificates of removal.
Vol.8.1 includes correspondence on the draft and conscientious objection.
Transferred from Haviland Records Room by NYYM in 1997.
Deposit, 1997.
Organization
- Westbury Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1828-1955 : Westbury, N.Y.)
- Westbury Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1955- : Westbury, N.Y.)
- Westbury Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : approximately 1682-1828 : Westbury, N.Y.)
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
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Where available, access is through microfilm.
- Use Restrictions
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Information on reproduction policies available in the library.
Collection Inventory
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY154
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY154
1 typescript in envelope
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
1 typescript in folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY460, 154
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY154
1 envelope
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsPre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY154
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY464
3 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Original certifiates, with seals, by Westbury Monthly Meeting members manumitting the people they enslaved.
Certificates include the full name of enslaver(s), the town of residence, the first name of the enslaved person, sometimes the person's gender and age, the date the enslaved person is to be manumitted if it is in the future, and sometimes the signatures of witnesses (in this file witnesses were generally also manumitting enslavers).
Physical Description2 folders, approximately 160 certificates
"A complete alphabetical list [by enslaver surname] of the manumision papers recorded in the book with the above title [A Record of the Discharges of the Negroes set at liberty by Friends of Westbury Monthly Meeting New York] which is in the Westbury Monthly Meeting safe."
Index to record book. Many (not all) manumission certificates are also in the collection as "Manumissions [certificates], 1775-1798"
Physical Descriptioncarbon copy of typescript
"A Record of the Discharges of the Negroes set at liberty by Friends of Wesbury Monthly Meeting"
Physical Description1 volume
Material Specific DetailsPre-Separation
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Abstract of a record register of manumissions for Westbury Monthly Meeting (book itself is 3.16). Notes include the name and location of the enslaver, the first name of the person manumitted, and the date of the certificate.
Physical Description1 photocopy of handwritten index
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
"A Record of the Manumissions of the Blacks that are Set Free by friends"
Book [mostly blank] recording manumission certificates of enslaver members of Westbury Monthly Meeting.
Physical Description1 volume
Material Specific DetailsPre-Separation
Typed index cards, filed by witness name. Information includes co-witness(es) and enslaver(s) name only.
Index cards listing, by year, the enslaver and manumitted individuals for manumission certificate originals then stored at Westbury Monthly Meeting.
Index cards (both typed and handwritten) of a mix of abstracts and transcripts of manumission certificates held by Westbury Monthly Meeting. Arranged by enslaver surname.
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY460
1 typescript and photocopy
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
1 typescript
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY465
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite/United
1 typescript volume in box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
1 typescript in box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY465
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
2 volumes in box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY155
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY155
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY155
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY156
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY156
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY156
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY156
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY157
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY157
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY458
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY458
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY459
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY459
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY459
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY460
2 volumes
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY462
5 volumes
Material Specific DetailsHicksite/United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY463
7 volumes
Material Specific DetailsUnited
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY463 (1992-1995)
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY464 (1996-1998)
8 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
7 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation:United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY461, 155
3 typescript volumes in box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY461
2 typescript volumes in box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
1 volume in box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY158
1 volume in box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY158
1 volume in box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY158
1 volume in box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY158
1 volume in box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY158
1 volume in box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
1 volume in box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY158
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY158
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY158
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY158
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY159
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY159
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY159
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY460
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY460
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY461
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY461
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY461
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY461
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY461
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY464
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY465
1 envelope
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY458
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite/United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY458
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY464
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY460
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite and United
Includes deeds and property records of Westbury Monthly Meeting: 1685: Release, Job Wright for a Burying Place and Meeting House, Oyster Bay; 1702: Deed, Samuell Bowne to John Tittus and Richard Seaman, Westbury; 1702: Deed, William Willis to Samuel Bowne et.al., Westbury; 1706: Isaac Hornor to Wm. Willis and John Prior, Oyster Bay; 1720: Deed, Jacob Wright to William Willis et.al., Oyster Bay; 1721: Deed, William Willis et.al. to William Mott et.al., Oyster Bay [burial ground]; 1725: Quit claim, John Cock to James Cock et.al., Matinecock; 1725: Quit claim, Josias Latting et.al. to James Cock et.al., Matinecock; 1731: Deed, Henry Cock et.al. to Samuel Prior et.al., Matinecock; 1736: Memorandum, Joseph Latham for Cow Neck; 1737: Deed, Thomas Pearsall and Samuel WIllis to Samuel Prior et.al., Cow Neck; 1742: Acknowledgement of exchange, Zebulon Dickinson to Samuel Underhill and Joseph Carpenter, Oyster; 1742: A Chart of Friends Land at Oyster Bay and Bethpage; 1742: Deed, Samuel Underhill and Joseph Carpenter to Jacob Seaman et.al., Oyster Bay; 1756: Deed, Nathaniel Seaman and Thomas Pearsall to Thomas Seaman et.al., Westbury; 1765: (3) Deeds, Samuel Willis and Jacob Seaman to Richard Willets et.al., Westbury; 1764: A Map of the Meeting House land at Westbury; 1764: Deed, Samuel Willis and John Cock to Israel Pearsall et.al., Oyster Bay; 1774: A Map of the Westbury Meeting house land; 1779: Deed, Richard Willets et.al. to Stephen Mott et.al.; 1779: Deed, adam Mott et.al. to Stephen Mott et.al.; 1779: Deed, Edmond Prior to Stephen Mott et.al., Cow Neck; 1780: Deed, Adrian Onderdonk to Joseph Pearsall, COw Neck; 1780: Deed, Joseph Pearsall to Stephen Mott et.al., Cow Neck; 1781: Authorization to purchase land for a school; 1785: Deed, Charles Valentine to Stephen Mott et.al., Matinecock; 1785: Quit claim, Daniel Cock to James Cock et.al., Matinecock; 1797: Designation of Trustees, Adam Mott et.al. to WIlliam Mudge and Refine Weekes, Matinecock; 1810: Deed, Joseph Underhill et.ux. to James Underhill, Matinecock; 1811: Deed, Stephen Mott et.al. to Isaac Hicks et.al., Westbury; 1811: Deed, Gideon Seaman et.al. to Isaac Hicks et.al., Oyster Bay; 1811: Deed, Stephen Mott et.al. to Isaac Hicks et.al., Cow Neck; 1811: Deed, James Underhill to Isaac Hicks et.al, Oyster Bay; 1811: Release, Silvanus Townsend et.ux. to Ruth Dickison, Matinecock; 1811: Deed, Stephen Mott et.al. to Isaac Hick et.al, Matinecock; 1811: Deed, Stephen Mott et.al. to Isaac Hicks et.al., Matinecock; 1811: Deed, Adam Mott et.al. to Isaac Hicks et.al., Matinecock; 1830: Deed, Simeon Loines and Isaac Downing to David Willets et.al., Westbury and Oyster Bay; 1838: Deed, William J. Cock et.ux. to to Jacob Valentine et.al., Buckram [Matinecock]; 1842: Transfer of Trustees [Westbury Monthly Meeting]; 1848: Deed, Timothy Titus et.ux. to Edward L. Frost and Joseph Hicks, Trustees, Titus Burial Ground in Oyster Bay; 1855: Declaration of Trust, Benjamin Hicks et.al. to Edward L. Frost and Joseph Hicks; 1855: Deed, Mary P. Titus and Elizabeth P. Willets to Jacob Valentine et.al; 1870: Deed, Benjamin Hicks et.al. to John D. Hicks et.al., Trustees; 1870: Declaration of Trust, John D. Hicks et.al. to Benjamin Hicks and James Titus; 1871: Lease, Isaac C. Coles et.al. to Silas C. Searing, Oyster Bay; 1875: Declaration of Trust, Wm. W. Hauxhurst and Edmund Seaman to Isaac H. Cocks; 1883: Exchange deed, John D. Hicks et.al. to John D. Hicks et.al.; 1909: Deed, Mary W. Harris et.al. to William W. Cocks and Frederick E. Willits, Trustees; 1909: Declaration of Trust, Westbury Monthly Meeting; 1910: Transfer of Trustees [Westbury Monthly Meeting]
Physical Description4 oversize folders (5.2++) and 1 regular folder (5.4)
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY458
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite and United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY461
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY458
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY458
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation/Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY461
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY
2 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite/United
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre and Hicksite
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite and United
Travel minute for Phebe Dodge from London.
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY458
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Pre-Separation
Westbury Freedmen's Aid Society.
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY461
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: Hicksite
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
2 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Available on microfilm in the Library:
- Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United