Milton Executive Meeting Records (including Milton Preparative and Marlborough Preparative Meetings (Orthodox))
Scope and Contents
Records of Milton Executive Meeting and its predecessors, Milton Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and Marlborough Preparative Meeting (pre-Separation and Orthodox), 1820-1963.
Dates
- Creation: 1820-1963
Creator
- Milton Executive Meeting (Society of Friends : Ulster County, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Marlborough Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : approximately 1780-1828 : Marlborough, N.Y.) (Contributor, Organization)
- Marlborough Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1888 : Ulster County, N.Y.) (Contributor, Organization)
Language of Materials
These records are entirely in English
Conditions Governing Access
Where available, access is through microfilm.
Conditions Governing Use
Information on reproduction policies available in the library.
Biographical / Historical
A meeting for worship at Newmarlborough was allowed by Nine Partners Monthly Meeting in 1776; the preparative meeting was in existence before 1780. It was set off under Creek Monthly Meeting in 3mo 1782, and then to Cornwall, when it in turn was established in 1788. It became part of Marborough Monthly Meeting in 1804. The name of Marlborough Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) was changed to Milton in 1888. Milton Executive Meeting was laid down in 1963.
Extent
0.7 linear ft. (10 volumes and 1 folder)
Abstract
Records of Milton Executive Meeting and its predecessors, Milton Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and Marlborough Preparative Meeting (pre-Separation and Orthodox), 1820-1963.
Arrangement
Divided into Series: Minutes (men's and joint): 1.1 1828-1833, 1.2 1833-1845, 1.3 1845-1856, 1.4 1876-1901, 1.5 1902-1921, 1.6 1921-1963; Women's minutes: 2.1 1820-1837, 2.2 1837-1862, 2.3 1863-1882; Milton Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor: 3.1 1896-1908; Finance and Property: 4.1 Sale of Highland Mills 1860-1938.
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Custodial History
Transferred from Haviland Records Room by NYYM in 1997.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit, 1997.
Subject
- Milton Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : Ulster County, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Marlborough Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : approximately 1780-1828 : Marlborough, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Marlborough Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1888 : Ulster County, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Milton Executive Meeting (Society of Friends : Ulster County, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Milton Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : Ulster County, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Title
- Milton Executive Meeting Records (including Milton Preparative and Marlborough Preparative Meetings (Orthodox))
- Author
- Inventory prepared by: FHL Staff
- Date
- 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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