Oswego Preparative Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Oswego Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its pre-Separation predecessor, Oswego Preparative Meeting. Includes: Minutes (men's & joint), 1794-1911, and women's minutes, 1834-1886.
Dates
- Creation: 1794-1911
Creator
- Oswego Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1828- : Lagrangeville, N.Y.) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
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Biographical / Historical
Oswego Preparative Meeting was reportedly established in 1758 by Oblong Monthly Meeting, having been a meeting for worship since ca. 1750. It was probably established by Nine Partners Monthly Meeting on its establishment in 1769 and then became part of Oswego Monthly Meeting when that meeting was established in 1799.
Extent
0.5 linear ft. (9 volumes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Records of Oswego Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its pre-Separation predecessor, Oswego Preparative Meeting. Includes: Minutes (men's & joint), 1794-1911, and women's minutes, 1834-1886.
Arrangement
Divided into series: Minutes (men's & joint): 1.1 1794-1798, 1.2 1813-1824, 1.3 1824-1838, 1.4 1838-1855, 1.5 1880-1904, 1.6 1905-1911; Women's minutes: 2.1 1834-1845, 2.2 1845-1866, 2.3 1866-1886.
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.
Subject
- Title
- Oswego Preparative 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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