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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
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated, list of members
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-212
Abstract
Contains a membership list providing names, addresses, and year joined. Also a statement of the number of Africans and their descendants who had been freed and the number attending the free school in New York City, 1791-1814. The list was kept by Isaac T. Hopper.
Dates:
1787-1827
The New York Association of Friends for the Relief of Those Held in Slavery and the Improvement of the Free People of Color
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-051
Overview
The New York Association of Friends for the Relief of Those Held in Slavery and the Improvement of Free People of Color was a Quaker society in New York City, organized in 1839. Its purpose was to support the abolition of slavery and educational charities for blacks. This small collection contains a minute book (6/1839-5/1843) and loose minutes (1844).
Dates:
1839-1844
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- Antislavery movements -- New York (State) -- New York 2
- Abolitionists -- New York (State) -- New York 1
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- Boycotts -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Charities -- New York (State) -- New York 1
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- Frost family 1
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs 1
- Quaker abolitionists 1
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- Densmore, Christopher 1
- Free Produce Association of Friends, of New-York Yearly Meeting 1
- Frost, Gideon, 1798-1880 1
- Frost, Mary W. (Mary Willets), 1803-1847 1
- Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 1
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
- New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated 1
- The New York Association of Friends for the Relief of Those Held in Slavery and the Improvement of the Free People of Color 1 ∧ less
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