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Free Produce Association of Friends of New-York Yearly Meeting collected records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-217
Abstract
This collection contains a circular with extracts of the minutes of the Executive Committee of the Free Produce Association of Friends, 1834, which notes its organization in Sixth Month [June] of the previous year; a circular dated 1848 addressed to Isaac Thorne announcing the opening of a store on Pearl Street; and published reports of the Board of Managers, 1849, 1851-1854.
Dates:
1834-1854
Frost family correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-292
Overview
The collection contains correspondence between members of the Gideon and Mary W. (Willets) Frost family, Hicksite Quakers of Westbury, Long Island, New York. Gideon Frost was a successful merchant, philanthropist, and founder of Friends Academy at Locust Valley. Family members were active in Quaker concerns, especially education and abolition. The letters mention prominent Friends, family, and anti-slavery concerns.
Dates:
1831, 1838, 1843 and 1871
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- Densmore, Christopher 1
- Free Produce Association of Friends, of New-York Yearly Meeting 1
- Frost, Gideon, 1798-1880 1
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