Call Number:

NY.W529

Repository:

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

Extent:

0.5 linear ft. (5 volumes)

Language Note:

These records are entirely in English

Date:

1828-1870 (inclusive)

Creator:

Westmoreland Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox : 1828-1890 : Westmoreland, N.Y.) and Westmoreland Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1826-1828 : Bridgewater, N.Y.)

Abstract:

Minutes of Bridgewater Preparative Meeting, 1828-38; minutes of New Hartford Preparative Meeting 1828-65; and minutes of Westmoreland Preparative Meeting 1826-1828 and 1860-92;

Bridgewater Preparative Meeting, New Hartford Preparative Meeting, and Westmoreland Preparative Meeting where established by Bridgewater Monthly Meeting in 1815, 1814, and 1826 respectively. All three meetings continued as Orthodox preparative meetings after the 1828 Separation. They were laid down in 1838, 1865, and 1890, respectively.

Divided into series: Minutes: 1.1 1828-38 (Bridgewater) & 1848-65 (New Hartford), 1.2 1828-58 (New Hartford); 1.3 1855-1909; Women's minutes & joint: 2.1 1828-50 (New Hartford), 2.2 1860-78 (Westmoreland); 2.3 1878-92 (Westmoreland).

1826-1828 minutes of Westmoreland Preparative Meeting are in a minute book of the Hicksite branch of Bridgewater Monthly Meeting (RG2/G/V47 1.2)