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Yorktown and Amawalk (Orthodox) Monthly Meetings Records

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Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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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Amawalk Monthly Meeting was established in 1798 under Purchase Quarterly Meeting, set off from Chappaqua Monthly Meeting. Amawalk Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) changed to an Executive Meeting (meeting quarterly) in 1897. Amawalk Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) changed its name to Yorktown Monthly Meeting in 1882. Yorktown was laid down in 1988. Amawalk was revived in 1977 after a short hiatus.

Records of Yorktown Monthly Meeting and its predecessor, Amawalk Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1798-1941. Includes: minutes, 1830-1941; women's minutes, 1828-1878; vital records, 1798-1907; and minutes of Ministers and Elders, 1835-1869.

Divided into series: Minutes (men's & joint): 1.1 1830-1856, 1.2 1856-1901, 1.3 1901-1941; women's minutes: 2.1 1828-1840, 2.2 1840-1867, 2.3 1867-1878; Vital records: 3.1 Register 1885-1907, 3.2 Births and Deaths 1798-1884, 3.3 Marriage Certificates 1798-1868, 3.4 Membership 1862-1952; Ministers & Elders records: 4.1 1798-1829; 4.2 1835-1852, 4.3 1852-1869, 4.4 1869-1919.

Transferred from Haviland Records Room by NYYM in 1997.

Minutes, 1830-56, women's minutes, 1828-67, and marriages, 1798-1868also available in microfilm, for use in the repository only: MR-NY 2-4.

Deposit, 1997.

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/Y655 3.1. Register, 1885-1907.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY474
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

RG2/NY/Y655 3.2. Births and Deaths, 1798-1884.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox

RG2/NY/Y655 3.3. Marriage Certificates, 1798-1868.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox

RG2/NY/Y655 3.4. Membership, 1862-1952.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY474
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

RG2/NY/Y655 1.1. Minutes, 1830-1856.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

RG2/NY/Y655 1.2. Minutes, 1856-1901.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY474
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

RG2/NY/Y655 1.3. Minutes, 1901-1941.
Scope and Contents

Includes treasurer's reports.

Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY474
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

RG2/NY/Y655 2.1. Minutes, 1828-1840.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
Physical Description

1 volume and 1 envelope of enclosures

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

RG2/NY/Y655 2.2. Minutes, 1840-1867.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-.
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

RG2/NY/Y655 2.3. Minutes, 1867-1878.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY474
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

RG2/NY/Y655 4.1. Minutes, 1798-1829.
Box RG2/NY/W-Y
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY474
Physical Description

1 envelope

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Pre-Separation/Orthodox

RG2/NY/Y655 4.2. Minutes, 1835-1852.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY474
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

RG2/NY/Y655 4.3. Minutes, 1852-1869.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY474
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

RG2/NY/Y655 4.4. Minutes, 1869-1919.
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the Library:

  1. Swarthmore: Microfilm MR-NY474
Physical Description

1 volume

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: Orthodox

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