New York Yearly Meeting Records: Trustees, Financial and Property Records, and General Services
Scope and Contents
Records of the Trustees of New York Yearly Meeting, other financial and property records, and general services and administrative records, 1672-ongoing.
Dates
- Creation: 1672-2011
Creator
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Access is through microfilm, if available.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to the Repository. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
Biographical / Historical
New York Yearly Meeting was first held in 1696 as the Yearly Meeting at Flushing or Long Island, consisting essentially of the Flushing Quarterly Meeting that was set off from New England Yearly Meeting. Meeting for Sufferings was established in 1758 and was held quarterly to represent and hold any business of the Yearly Meeting while it was not in session.
Extent
36 linear ft.
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit
Subject
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955) (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1955) (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends -- Finance (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955) -- Finance (Organization)
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1955) -- Finance (Organization)
- Title
- New York Yearly Meeting Records: Trustees, Financial and Property Records, and General Services
- Date
- 2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- 2020: Updated outdated, harmful terminology related to enslavement, except where it appears in a title, quotation, or subject heading.
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