Herndon Friends Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Herndon Friends Meeting’s digital records include business minutes (2017-2019), Spiritual State of the Meeting reports to Baltimore Yearly Meeting (2009-2019), responses to the BYM Apportionment Questionnaire (2011-2013), newsletters (2019), and some membership records.
Dates
- Creation: 2009 - 2019
Creator
- Herndon Friends Meeting (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to the Repositories. All requests for permission to publish or quote from records beyond the bounds of Fair Use must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor.
Biographical / Historical
Quakers in Reston, Virginia began meeting for worship in 1974, first formally organizing as Reston Worship Group in 1979. Reston Preparative Meeting was established under the care of Langley Hill Monthly Meeting in 1981 and was granted monthly meeting status by Baltimore Yearly Meeting in 1986.
Reston Monthly Meeting purchased a building in Herndon, Virginia in 1995 to use as a dedicated meetinghouse. After renovations were complete, they held their first Meeting for Worship in the new location as Herndon Friends Meeting in Spring 1996.
Extent
0.1 GB
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Digital records for Herndon Friends Meeting, 2009-2019.
Physical Location
This collection is stewarded by the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Digital records deposited in 2020 by Wayne Finegar, then-General Secretary of Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
Source
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Organization)
Subject
- Reston Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) (Organization)
- Title
- Herndon Friends Meeting Records
- Author
- Caitlin Goodman
- Date
- 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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