Call Number:

NY.W455

Repository:

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

Extent:

4 linear ft. (10 volumes)

Date:

1828-1947 (inclusive)

Creator:

Westbury Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1870-1938 : Westbury, N.Y.)

Abstract:

Records of Westbury Monthly Meeting, 1828-1947. Includes minutes, 1828-1937, and vital records, 1828-1947. Pre-Separation and Hicksite records described in QM-NY-W453.

Although the earliest records have been lost, Westbury Monthly Meeting was established as early as 1682. In 1828 it divided into Orthodox and Hicksite branches. The Orthodox branch was unitied with Jericho Monthly Meeting as Westbury and Jericho Monthly Meeting from 1828-1870. In 1870 it reverted to the name Westbury Monthly Meeting, under which it continued until it was laid down in 1938 (?).

Records of post-Separation Orthodox Westbury Monthly Meeting, 1828-1947. Includes minutes, 1828-1937, and vital records, 1828-1947. Pre-Separation and Hicksite records described in QM-NY-W453, per the arrangement at the New York Yearly Meeting's Haviland Records Room.

Divided into series: Minutes: 1.1 1828-36, 1.2 1836-1909, 1.3 1909-37; Women's Minutes: 2.1 1828-37, 2.2 1838-74; Vital Records: 3.1 Births, Deaths and Marriages: 1828-1928, 3.2 Births and Deaths 1885-1935, 3.3 Births and Deaths 1835-47; Ministers' and Elders' Minutes: 4.1 1845-78, 4.2 1902-20.