New York Monthly Meeting (Pre-Separation) Records (including Flushing Monthly Meeting)
Scope and Contents
Records of the pre-Separation New York Monthly Meeting, also called Flushing Monthly Meeting, 1640-1828. Includes men's & women's minutes, vital Records and records of Building Committees for Queen Street, 1774-76, and Rose Street, 1823-24. Earliest volume of minutes, 1671-1703, also contains minutes of New York Yearly Meeting and Westbury Quarterly Meeting.
Dates
- Creation: 1640-1828
Creator
- Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends : approximately 1671-1828 : New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Where available, access is through microfilm.
Conditions Governing Use
Information on reproduction policies available in the library.
Biographical / Historical
While the Monthly Meeting of New York, also known as Flushing until 1795, was well established by 1682, the date of its first organization is unknown.
After 1828, at the time of the Hicksite Separation, there were two New York Monthly Meetings; the Orthodox met at Rutgers Medical College and later on Henry Street, and the Hicksites retained the Rose Street and Hester Street Meeting houses. The 15th Street (Hicksite) and 20th Street (Orthodox) New York Monthly Meetings were reunited in 1958. In 1975, New York Monthly Meeting was reestablished as New York Quarterly Meeting, and New York Preparative Meeting (15th Street) was renamed 15th Street Monthly Meeting. This meeting is currently active.
Extent
12 linear ft. (42 volumes and 1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Records of the pre-Separation New York Monthly Meeting, also called Flushing Monthly Meeting, 1640-1828. Includes men's & women's minutes, vital Records and records of Building Committees for Queen Street, 1774-76, and Rose Street, 1823-24. Earliest volume of minutes, 1671-1703, also contains minutes of New York Yearly Meeting and Westbury Quarterly Meeting.
Arrangement
Divided into series: Minutes; Women's Minutes; Vital Records; Building Committee; Miscellaneous; Financial Records.
Physical Location
For current information on the location of records, please consult the Library’s online catalogue
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.
Existence and Location of Copies
Also available in microfilm, for use in the repository only: MR-NY 47-52, 76-77, 81, 84, 160.
General
The records of New York Monthly Meeting and its Orthodox, Hicksite, and pre-Separation predecessors ave each been described in separate finding aids, for ease of discovery.
Subject
- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends : Orthodox : New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1958-1974 : New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends : approximately 1671-1828 : New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Title
- New York Monthly Meeting (Pre-Separation) Records (including Flushing Monthly Meeting)
- 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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