New York Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) Records
Scope and Contents
Records of New York Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1783-1957. Includes minutes, vital records, minutes of Ministry and Counsel, financial and property records, committee records, First Day School Records, and records of Friends Seminary.
Dates
- Creation: 1783-1957
Creator
- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Certain files, as noted in the finding aid, are restricted. Details available in repository. 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. The meeting is currently active.
Extent
25 linear ft. (105 volumes (plus 4 boxes and 1 folder))
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Records of New York Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1783-1957. Includes minutes, vital records, minutes of Ministry and Counsel, financial and property records, committee records, First Day School Records, and records of Friends Seminary.
Arrangement
Divided into series: 1. Minutes (men's & joint); 2. Women's minutes; 3. Vital records; 4. Ministers and Elders; 5. Treasurer; 6. Property Committee; 7. Library Committee; 8. Registration Committee; 9. Philanthropic Committee; 10. Committee on the Education of Colored People/Work for Southern Schools; 11. Committee for Conscientious Objectors; 12. Relief Committee; 13. First Day School Assn.; 14. School Trustees; 15. Burial Grounds; 16. Miscellaneous; 17. Publications.
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
Minutes to 1855, women's minutes to 1868, and vital records to 1904 also available on microfilm, for use in the repository only: MR-NY 73-75, 78, 85-86.
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.
Vol.2.7 includes a list of female students, probably of the monthly meeting school, dated 1833.
Subject
- Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends : approximately 1671-1828 : New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1958-1974 : New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Friends Seminary (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Title
- New York Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) 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.
- 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
Most of the materials in this catalog are not digitized and can only be accessed in person. Please see our website for more information about visiting or requesting repoductions from Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College Library
