Northeastern Regional Meeting Records (including Quaker Street Regional and its predecessors)
Scope and Contents
Records of Northeastern Regional Meeting and some of its predecessors, Quaker Street Half-Yearly (Hicksite) and Regional Meetings, and Duanesburg Half Yearly and Quarterly Meetings (Hicksite and pre-Separation), 1812-ongoing. Records include minutes from men's, women's, and joint quarterly meetings for business as well as Ministers and Elders. Much of the collection consists of the files of the clerk of Quaker Street Half-Yearly Meeting in the 1950s and 1960s, including material related to the constituent meetings at the time. There is a gap in coverage from 1916-1943.
Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox) records, including some pre-Separation records retained by the Orthodox branch, are described in the collection of Butternuts Quarterly Meeting. Pre-1986 records from Northeastern Regional's predecessors in Northern Quarterly and Easton & Saratoga Half-Yearly are described separately as their own collections, with post-1986 records for the combined Northeastern Regional Meeting described here.
Dates
- Creation: 1812 - 2009
Creator
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Northeastern Regional Meeting (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1955). Duanesburg Half Yearly Meeting (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1955). Quaker Street Half Yearly Meeting (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting (1812-1828) (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Quaker Street Regional Meeting (Organization)
- Monkton Monthly Meeting of Friends (approximately 1925-1996 : Monkton, Vt.) (Organization)
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Biographical / Historical
In 1812, Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting was established, set off from Stanford Quarterly Meeting. At the 1828 Separation, Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. The Orthodox Branch of Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting was renamed Butternuts Quarterly in 1838, and its records are described in the collection for Butternuts Quarterly Meeting. Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite) began meeting half-yearly in 1902. In 1933, Duanesburg Half-Yearly Meeting changed its name to Quaker Street Half-Yearly and became Quaker Street Regional Meeting in 1972.
In 1986, Quaker Street Regional Meeting united with Northern Quarterly Meeting and Easton and Saratoga Half-Yearly Meeting to form Northeastern Regional Meeting. It is currently active.
Extent
2.5 linear ft. (2 boxes + bound volumes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Records of Northeastern Regional Meeting and some of its predecessors, 1812-ongoing (bulk dates 1812-1916; 1965-2009). Predecessor meetings in this collection are Quaker Street Regional Meeting, Quaker Street Half-Yearly (Hicksite) Meeting, and Duanesburg Half Yearly and Quarterly Meetings (Hicksite and pre-Separation).
Arrangement
Records are arranged in three series by administrative chronology.
Included in Series I are Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting (1812-1828), Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite) (1828-1902), and Duanesburg Half-Yearly Meeting (1903-1933). Series II includes Quaker Street Half Yearly (1933-1972) and Quaker Street Regional Meeting (1972-1986). Series III includes records from Northeastern Regional Meeting (1986-ongoing) which was established out of Quaker Street Regional uniting with Northern Quarterly and Easton and Saratoga Half-Yearly Meetings.
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.
- Title
- Northeastern Regional Meeting Records (including Quaker Street Regional and its predecessors)
- Date
- 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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