New York-Westbury Quarterly Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of New York-Westbury Quarterly Meeting, 1759-1973. Includes men's, joint, and women's minutes, 1783-1973. Ministers and Elders' minutes 1759-1956; committee minutes 1892-1959; financial records 1833-1972; and miscellaneous 1921-79.
Dates
- Creation: 1759 - 2000
Creator
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Biographical / Historical
A meeting was established at Westbury before 1671. In 1676 it became a quarterly meeting under New England Yearly Meeting. It became part of New York Yearly Meeting on that body's establishment in 1746. In 1828, the Hicksite branch continued as Westbury Quarterly Meeting; the Orthodox branch changed its name to New York Quarterly Meeting in 1884. The two branches reunified, effective 1957, as New York-Westbury Quarter. In 1974 New York Monthly Meeting became New York Quarterly Meeting; in 1976 the remaining meetings of the former New York-Westbury Quarterly became Long Island Quarterly Meeting. Religious Society of Friends; in 1976 the remaining meetings of the former New York-Westbury Quarterly became Long Island Quarterly Meeting, which body continues to the present day.
Extent
5 linear ft.
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Records of New York-Westbury Quarterly Meeting, 1759-1973. Includes men's, joint, and women's minutes, 1783-1973. Ministers and Elders' minutes 1759-1956; committee minutes 1892-1959; financial records 1833-1972, and miscellaneous 1737-1938.
Arrangement
Divided into Series: Minutes: 1.1 1795-1817, 1.2 1818-48 (H), 1.3 1848-93 (H), 1.4 1894-1912 (H), 1.5 1912-21 (H), 1.6 1941-53 (H), 1.7 1954-56 (H), 1.8 1858-91 (O), 1.9 1891-1917 (O), 1.10 1917-56 (O), 1.11 1957-61, 1.12 1961-65, 1.13 1966-73, 1.14 rough 1973-75, 1.15 1828-58 (O), 1.16 1921-32 (H), 1.17 1933-40 (H), 1.18 index 1894-1912 (H), 1.19 index 1912-21 (H); Women's minutes: 2.1 1783-93, 2.2 1793-1814, 2.3 1814-49 (H), 2.4 1850-1901 (H), 2.5 draft 1895-1901 (H), 2.6 1828-65 (O), 2.7 1865-85 (O); Ministers and Elders: 3.1 1759-68 and 1828-1901 (O), 3.2 1787-1804, 3.3 1805-1828, 3.4 1828-54 (H), 3.5 1854-1901 (H), 3.6 1902-07 (H), 3.7 1907-35 (H), 3.8 1936-56 (H), 3.9 1891-1915 (O), 3.10 1916-45 (O), 3.11 1946-56 (O); Philanthropic Labor Committee (H): 4.1 1893-96, 4.2 1896-1913, 4.3 1913-1916, 4.4 treasurer's book 1928-36; Women's Foreign Missionary Society (O): 5.1 1892-1902, 5.2 1902-10, 5.3 1910-17, 5.4 1926-59; Miscellaneous: 6.1 Newsletters 1924-70, 6.3 Advancement Committee 1921-22 (H), 6.4 Cemetery Committee book of plots, A-G (O), 6.5 Extracts 1737-82, 6.6 Reports 1886 and 1937-38; Finance and Property: 7.1 Miscellaneous 1833, 1875-77, and 1966-72.
Physical Location
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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.
General
Volume 1759-68 includes New York Yearly Meeting minutes, 1760-64.
Subject
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1955). Westbury Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1828-1955) (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955). Westbury Quarterly Meeting (1828-1884) (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955). New York Quarterly Meeting of Friends (1884-1955) (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Westbury Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1955-1957) (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Westbury Quarterly Meeting (approximately 1671-1828) (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Ministers and Elders (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955). New York Quarterly Meeting of Friends (1884-1955) (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. New York-Westbury Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1957-1976) (Organization)
- Title
- New York-Westbury Quarterly 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
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
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