Green Haven Friends Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Green Haven Friends Meeting includes minutes, reports, and member lists for worship call-out, records from the New York Yearly Meeting related to administrative problems at the prison impacting the ability for worship to be regularly held, and Mary Foster Cadbury's personal files related to incarcerated Friends at the prison.
Dates
- Creation: 1976-1997
Creator
- Green Haven Friends Meeting (Stormville, N.Y.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
These records are entirely in English
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research. Access to the inmate files of Mary Foster Cadbury are restricted. Contact Curator for further details.
Conditions Governing Use
Information on reproduction policies available in the library.
Biographical / Historical
A formal Friends meeting was first held in 1976 at Green Haven Correctional Facility. The worship meeting began as part of the Quaker Project on Community Conflict, designed to train people incarcerated at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in processes of non-violent resolution, but continued after 1976 as a more traditional Quaker worship group.
It remains active as the Green Haven Prison Preparative Meeting under care of New York Yearly Meeting.
Extent
0.8 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Abstract
Records of Green Haven Friends Meeting. Includes: minutes 1976, and miscellansoue records.
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.
Subject
- Green Haven Correctional Facility -- History (Organization)
- Green Haven Friends Meeting (Stormville, N.Y.) (Organization)
- Quaker Project on Community Conflict of the New York Yearly Meeting (Organization)
- Title
- Green Haven Friends 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
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