Poughkeepsie Monthly Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Poughkeepsie Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Oswego Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) and Oswego Monthly Meeting (pre-Separation), 1799-ongoing. Includes Minutes (mens and joint), 1799-1888 and 1888-1977/1980-2019 (2013-2019 minutes are digital); and women's minutes, 1828-1900.
Vital records cover births and deaths 1828-1975, marriages and removals 1828-1975, and memorial minutes from the 1950s through 2010s. Several histories of the meeting, compiled primarily in the 1980s, are present. There is a largely complete run of the newsletter from 1952-1995 and a fairly comprehensive run of the Meeting's sent and received (non-routine) correspondence, plus a near complete run of State of the Meeting reports from 1940-2009. Of additional interest is two folders related to draft counseling and Selective Service non-registration from the 1960s-1980s.
A significant component of the collection is records related to Poughkeepsie's Ministry and Counsel Committee (and its predecessor groups) including minutes 1850s-1990s, occasional surveys of membership around questions of spiritual life (1930s-2000s), and records around their pastoral programming from the 1950s-1990s. Additional committee minutes include the Pastoral Committee and various women's groups, plus annual committee reports from the 1940s-1980s.
Dates
- Creation: 1799-2019
Creator
- Poughkeepsie Monthly Meeting of Friends (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Oswego Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1799-1828 : Oswego, N.Y.) (Contributor, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Where available, access is through microfilm. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.
Conditions Governing Use
Information on reproduction policies available in the library.
Biographical / Historical
Oswego Monthly Meeting was established in 1799, set off from Nine Partners Monthly Meeting. Oswego Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) changed its name to Poughkeepsie Monthly Meeting in 1870. Oswego Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) became Bulls-Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting in 1980. Both meetings remain active.
Extent
7.25 linear ft.
0.1 GB
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Records of Poughkeepsie Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Oswego Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) and Oswego Monthly Meeting (pre-Separation), 1799-2019 and is ongoing.
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 via transfer, 1997. Continuing deposits, with most recent deposit in 2024.
Subject
- Oswego Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1870 : Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Oswego Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1799-1828 : Oswego, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Oswego Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1870 : Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Poughkeepsie Monthly Meeting of Friends (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Title
- Poughkeepsie Monthly Meeting Records
- 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
Revision Statements
- 2016: This electronic finding aid was updated in Summer 2016 by Abdulrezak Kemal in preparation for importing into ArchivesSpace, to conform to current markup standards and the ArchivesSpace data model.
- 202: Digital records added by PCO'D
- 2024: NYYM-Poughkeepsie-2024 incorporated (primarily M&C records)
- 2024: Some new files added as part of a student backlog project summer 2024 for NYYM Found in Collection materials
Find It at the Library
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