Purchase Monthly Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Purchase Meeting, 1725-ongoing. Includes minutes 1725-2016, vital records 1700-1989, financial records 1834, miscellaneous 1828-1988, and newsletters 1941-1995.
Dates
- 1725-2016
Creator
Limitations on Accessing the Collection
Where available, access is through microfilm.
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Biographical / Historical
Purchase Monthly Meeting was established in 1725 under Westchester Quarterly Meeting and became part of Purchase Quarterly Meeting on its establishment in 1745. In 1828 it divided into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. The Hicksite branch united with Purchase Preparative Meeting in 1908 to form Purchase Executive and Preparative Meeting. In 1937 this body united with its Orthodox counterpart. In 1964 Purchase Meeting, Religious Society of Friends, incorporated, which body continues to the present day.
Extent
7 Linear Feet (62 volumes)
Language
English
Overview
Records of Purchase Meeting, 1725-. Includes minutes 1725-2016, vital records 1700-1989, financial records 1834, miscellaneous 1828-1988, and newsletters 1941-1995.
Arrangement
Divided into series: Men's and Joint Minutes: 1.1 1725-47, 1.2 1725-47 (Summary), 1.3 1725-99 (Extracts), 1.4 1765-72 (Draft), 1.5 1772-85, 1.6 1777-79 (Draft), 1.7 1783-85 (draft), 1.8 1785-93, 1.9 1793-1806, 1.10 1806-1819, 1.11 1819-42 (Orthodox), 1.12 1843-68 (Orthodox), 1.13 1868-1937 (Orthodox), 1.14 1828-47 (Hicksite), 1.15 1847-83 (Hicksite), 1.16 1883-1919 (Hicksite), 1.17 1919-38 (Hicksite), 1.18 1939-45, 1.19 1962-70, 1.20 1970-74, 1.21 1974-78, 1.22 1978-80, 1.23 1980-85, 1.24 1985-91, 1.25 1946-54, 1.26 1954-61, 1.27 1996-2001, 1.28 1992-96, 1.29 2001-06, 1.30 2006-10, 1.31 2010-11, 1.32 2011-16; WoM: 2.1 1760-69, 2.2 1828-60 (Hicksite), 2.3 1861-83 (Hicksite), 2.4 1834-77 (Orthodox); Vital Records: 3.1 Register 1700-1806, 3.2 Marriages 1725-1910, 3.3 Marriages 1725-1910, 3.4 Manumissions 1777, 3.5 Testifications 1781-89, 3.6 Marriages 1785-1941, 3.7 Births and Deaths 1810-79 (Hicksite), 3.8 Register 1818-65 (Hicksite), 3.9 Register 1828-1907 (Orthodox), 3.10 Register 1828-1919 (Orthodox), 3.11 Memorials 1859-75 (Orthodox), 3.12 Register 1907-1937 (Orthodox), 3.13 Membership 1941-71, 3.14 Removals 1963-89, 3.15 Removals and Disownments 1777-1827; Ministers' and Elders' Minutes: 4.1 1828-54 (Hicksite), 4.2 1854-1904 (Hicksite), 4.3 1844-67 (Orthodox), 4.4 1867-82 (Orthodox), 4.5 1883-1935 (Orthodox); Miscellaneous: 5.1 1833 (Orthodox), 5.2 1833 (Orthodox), 5.3 1880-1937 (Hicksite), 5.4 1892-1895, 5.5 1913-37 (Orthodox), 5.6 1942-53, 5.7 1975-88, [Rye Meeting], 1958-72, 5.9 Radio Broadcasts 1942-49; Newsletter: 6.1 1941(?)-60, 6.2 1988-95; Finance and Property: 7.1 Subscriptions 1834.
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
Vol.3.11 is entered into a ledger for a spinning manufactury, and also includes correspondence and some genealogical information on the Field family.
- Field family
- Purchase Executive Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1828-1908 : Purchase, N.Y.)
- Purchase Executive Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1828-1908 : Purchase, N.Y.)
- Purchase Executive and Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1937-1964 : Purchase, N.Y.)
- Purchase Executive and Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1937-1964 : Purchase, N.Y.)
- Purchase Executive and Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1908-1937 : Purchase, N.Y.)
- Purchase Executive and Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1908-1937 : Purchase, N.Y.)
- Purchase Meeting, Religious Society of Friends (1964- : Purchase, N.Y.)
- Purchase Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1725-1828 : Purchase, N.Y.)
- Purchase Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1725-1828 : Purchase, N.Y.)
- Purchase Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1937 : Purchase, N.Y.)
- Purchase Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1937 : Purchase, N.Y.)
- Society of Friends -- New York (State) -- Westchester County
Creator
- Title
- Purchase Monthly 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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