Society of Friends -- Government
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Intermountain Yearly Meeting records
Collection
Identifier: QM-IMYM
Scope and Contents
This collection includes materials about IMYM activities from the 1970s to 2007. Most of the records pertain to their annual business sessions, such as minutes, programs, and correspondence. There are also documents pertaining to committees within the yearly meeting, and external organizations that IMYM partnered with such as American Friends Service Committee, Friends Committee on National Legislation, and Friends World Committee for Consultation.
Dates:
1970 - 2007
Arthur M. Larrabee ministry papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-346
Abstract
This collection consists of materials from Arthur M. Larrabee’s workshops and presentations on Quaker decision-making and leadership, given to a number of Quaker meetings and schools between 1992 and 2020.
Dates:
1991 - 2020
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Administrative Council
Organization
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Annual Sessions
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Phy-001
Abstract
A general meeting for Friends in the Delaware Valley area was first convened at Burlington in 1681. The first general meeting held in Philadelphia was in 1683, and in 1685, it was agreed that the meetings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania should be combined into one yearly meeting with alternate sessions at Philadelphia and at Burlington. The great Separation among Philadelphia Friends into Orthodox and Hicksite branches occurred at the Yearly Meeting of 1827. Through the course of the early...
Dates:
1662 - 2022
