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REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01152 9481
BOOK OF MEETINGS
OF
FRIENDS IN NEW YORK,
1896.
"Friends, keep your Meetings in the power of God, and in His wisdom and in the love of God, that by that ye may order all to His glory."-GEORGE Fox.
PUBLISHED BY FRIENDS' BOOK AND TRACT COMMITTEE, 45 EAST TENTH STREET, NEW YORK. 1896.
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CONTENTS.
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PAGE
FRIENDS IN NEW YORK :
Early Settlement, · .
3
Meetings on the Mainland, 7
Canada Yearly Meeting, ·
8
Meetings in Michigan, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, . · · ·
9
Early Records and their Preservation, . .
9
Places of Holding the Yearly Meeting, 12 .
List of Yearly Meeting Clerks, . 13
Establishment of Meetings for Discipline,
14
Meetings for Sufferings, now Representative Meeting, · ·
14
NEW YORK YEARLY MEETING OF TO-DAY :
Its Place among Sister Yearly Meetings, . .
17
Membership, ·
17
List of Quarterly Meetings,
.
.
·
18
Monthly Meetings, . . .
.
18
Preparative Meetings,
19
Indulged Meetings, .
19
Order of Meetings,
20
Time of Holding Yearly Meeting and its Ses- sions, . 21
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NEW YORK YEARLY MEETING OF TO-DAY:
Yearly Meeting of Ministers and Elders, . 21
Representative Meeting, . .
21
LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE YEARLY MEETING :
Clerk, Correspondents, Treasurer, Clerk of Meeting of Ministers and Elders, . 22
Members of Representative Meeting,
. 22
Bible School Board, ·
.
23
Home and Foreign Mission Board,
24
Women's Foreign Mission Society,
25
Evangelistic Committee, .
. 26
Educational Committee,
. 26
Temperance Committee,
26
Book and Tract Committee,
.
27
Peace and Arbitration, ·
27 .
Murray Fund, .
· 28
Mosher Fund, .
.
28
Christian Endeavor,
. 28
Oakwood Seminary, ·
. . .29
QUARTERLY MEETINGS :
Their Establishment; Location of Meeting- houses in each ; Time and Place of Holding; Membership ; Clerk.
New York, . ·
33
Purchase, . .
. 45
Nine Partners, .
57
Cornwall, .
.
Glens Falls, ·
. 83
Ferrisburg, ·
91
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UARTERLY MEETINGS: Q
Butternuts, .
. 101
Scipio, ·
. 113
Farmington, .
. 125
MONTHLY MEETINGS :
Time and Place of holding each ; Officers ; Min- isters ; Elders; Preparative Meetings includ- ed in each, their Clerks and Membership.
New York, ·
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·
·
. 33
Westbury, ·
.
37
Purchase, .
.
.
.
.
48
Chappaqua, .
· 49
Yorktown, .
51
Oblong, .
61
Nine Partners,
. 62
.
63
Stanford,
64
Cornwall,
.
. 74
Marlboro,
. 75
Glens Falls,
. 84
Moreau,
85
Ferrisburg,
. 94
Farnham,
96
Butternuts,
. 103
Westmoreland,
. 105
Smyrna, .
. 105
West Branch,
. 107
Scipio,
. 116
Hector,
. 119
Evans' Mills,
·
. 119
.
.
Poughkeepsie,
.
.
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MONTHLY MEETINGS :
Farmingtoo, .
. 198
Rochester, ·
. 130
Elba, .
. 131
Hartland, . .
· . 132
Collins,
. 133
MINISTERS AND ELDERS -- QUARTERLY AND PRE-
PARATIVE MEETINGS:
New York, 39 . ·
Purchase, 52 ·
Nine Partners, 66 .
Cornwall,
78
Glens Falls,
. 86
Ferrisburg,
97
Butternuts,
. 108
Scipio,
·
. 120
Farmington,
. 134
MEETINGS FOR WORSHIP IN EACH QUARTER :
New York,
. 40
Purchase,
.
. 53
Nine Partners, .
.
.
·
66
Cornwall, .
78
Glens Falls,
87
Ferrisburg, ·
. 97
Butternuts, .
. . 109
Scipio, . .
.
. 190
Farmington,
.
. 185
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR MEETINGS IN EACH QUAR- TER:
New York, ·
40
Purchase, · . .
. 53
.
.
. ·
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CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR MEETINGS IN EACH
QUAR-
TER:
Nine Partners,
67
Cornwall, .
·
·
79
Glens Falls, .
· 87
Ferrisburg,
98
Butternuts, .
. 109
Scipio, . .
.
.
. 121
Farmington, ·
. 135
MISSIONARY MEETINGS IN SEVEN QUARTERS:
New York, 41 . .
Nine Partners,
. 67
Glens Falls, ·
. 87
Ferrisburg,
. 99
Butternuts, .
. 109
Scipio, .
. 121
Farmington,
.
. 136
BIBLE SCHOOLS IN EACH QUARTER:
New York,
.
.
. 40
Purchase,
.
. 53
Nine Partners,
.
67
Cornwall.
79
Glens Falls,
87
Ferrisburg,
98
Butternuts,
109
Scipio, ·
. 121
Farmington,
.
. 136
SMALL MEETINGS AND MISSIONS:
White Plains,
. 53
Little Rest, .
.
. 66
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SMALL MEETINGS AND MISSIONS:
Shun Pike,
68
Unionville,
. .
72
Cornwall Landing,
72
Oneida (Queensbury),
·
83
Luzerne, · · 83
93
Farnham Glen, .
.
98
West Ava, ·
. 102
Le Raysville,
. 115
Twenty-First Ward Mission and Industrial School, New York, · . 40
N. Y. Colored Mission, .
. 41
DISUSED MEETINGS:
Lincoln, Vt.,
· 92
Montpelier, Vt., . 99
Millville,
. 128
North Collins,
. 128
Palmyra,
. 130
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Jerusalem (Vt.),
·
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FRIENDS IN NEW YORK.
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FRIENDS IN NEW YORK.
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
IN 1656, hardly a decade after the rise of Friends in England, while as yet New Amsterdam on the southern extremity of Manhattan Island was a mere Dutch trad- ing post and fort, Long Island had already become the resort of the Quakers.
They fled thither from the bitter persecutions then rife in Massachusetts and the other colonies, landing and making settlements at Oyster Bay and other points on the northern shore of Long Island. Richard Smith is the first of these settlers whose name appears on our annals.
Other Friends crossed from the Jersey coast in small sloops and the frail canoes of kindly Indians to Coney Island and established themselves at Gravesend, Flush- ing, Newtown, Jericho, Westbury, and neighboring places. At Gravesend especially they congregated in considerable numbers in 1656 and 1657. Many became convinced of their principles and joined the Society. The first regular meeting on the island was here organ- ized and maintained.
Lady Deborah Moody figures prominently in the records of that day. She is the " Countess of Mordee"' of the quaint historian Croese, a gentlewoman who had come to this remote spot to enjoy the religious freedom elsewhere denied her. She seems to have been endowed
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with rare Christian gifts and graces. ' The meetings were held at her house, but with such wise observance of time and place on her part as to give no offence to others, "so she and her people remained free from all molestation." The Dutch governors treated her with respect, and for many years she had the naming of the Gravesend magistrates, one of whom in 1657 was a Friend named William Bowne.
The small bark Woodhouse brought the first Gospel mes- sengers from Friends of England to Manhattan Island in Eighth month, 1657. Its captain, Robert Fowler, was a Friend consecrated to the Lord's service, and the voyage itself was a triumph of faith. Of the eleven who formed this ship's company, Robert Hodgson, Richard Doud- ney, Mary Weatherhead, Dorothy Waugh, and Sarah Gibbons landed at New Amsterdam and entered at once upon the Gospel work to which they felt drawn. The courtesy with which the doughty Dutch magnate at first received them was short-lived. Many and sore were the trials that they and their fellow-confessors endured. Robert Hodgson attained a sorrowful pre- eminence among his brethren in the truth on account of the ignominious sufferings inflicted on him. The hand of Peter Stuyvesant was almost as heavy upon the despised Quakers as that of John Endicott, of Boston, had been.
But under the pressure of adversity the Church grew and multiplied, the Lord adding to it daily such as were being saved. A scruple against numbering the people, as savoring of carnal vanity, kept the enumera- tion out of the early records, but such entries as the following : "Divers were convinced of the truth," "a
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large number joined themselves to Friends at this meet- ing," attest to their steady increase. Not infrequently those who came out full of mistaken zeal to hale men and women to prison and to judgment were smitten under the hand of the Lord and became themselves standard bearers in the Church.
John Bowne was an Englishman of good standing, whose first recorded visit to Long Island was in 1651. Three or four years later he seems to have settled at Flushing. His wife, Hannah, became interested in the Friends' orchard meetings and induced her husband to attend one with her. They were convinced of Friends' principles, joined the Society, and soon became eminent as ministers in it. In 1662 the Flushing meeting was held at their house, which continued in use for this purpose until the erection of a meeting house in 1696. This old homestead, rich in sacred associations, is still standing in good preservation at Flushing.
The dedication of his house to the Lord proved a costly sacrifice for John Bowne. In the same year (1662) he was arrested for harboring Quakers and hold- ing meetings in his dwelling place. He was fined, im - prisoned, and finally banished to Holland. Exiled from home, it was but to plead his people's cause and from a fairer tribunal to obtain the enactment of more right- eous laws. The decree of the West India Company with which he returned to Long Island is noteworthy as the first document of the kind, save one other, insur- ing religious liberty in this country. It was effectual, for with its publication all open persecution of the Quakers ceased.
John Burnyeat and William Edmundson were among
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the earliest ministering Friends who visited the Long Island meetings. They came in 1666, 1671, and 1676. Their labors were richly blessed.
In the spring of 1672 George Fox paid a memorable visit to Flushing and the adjacent meetings. Many others, fathers and mothers in the Truth, ministered in Gospel love to the needs of the growing young Church. James Wood, in the "Bicentennial of New York Yearly Meeting," says :
" The meetings upon Long Island appear to have been established in the following order: those at Gravesend and Flushing in 1657 ; that at Oyster Bay in 1660 ; those at the Farms, the Kills, and Newtown before 1676; Matinecook in 1684; Jamaica and Hemp- stead in 1692. In 1687 the Monthly Meeting ordered that meetings be held at Edmund Titus', Westbury ; at Jericho, Bethphage, and Jerusalem. Sequatogue was established in 1700, Cow Neck in 1703, Hunting- ton in 1728, Rockaway in 1742, Setauket in 1743, and Stony Brook at an earlier date."
Of these nineteen meetings one only, that at West. bury, is in existence in our branch of the Society at the present day.
The earlier meetings were soon organized into Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, and a Half-year's Meeting was held at Oyster Bay from 1665.
These were at first all subordinate to New England. but by the following Minute they were set off and organized into New York Yearly Meeting:
" At a Yearly Meeting at the house of Walter New. berry in Rhode Island, 14th of Fourth month, 1695, among the meetings called are Long Island. It is
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agreed that the meetings at Long Island be from this time a general meeting, and that John Bowne and John Rodman shall take care to receive all such papers as shall come to the Yearly Meeting in Long Island and correspond with Friends appointed in London."
At Shelter Island, near the eastern point of Long Island, there was in those days another haven of rest to which weary exiles on account of religion were wont to resort. They ever found the heart and home of its noble proprietor, Nathaniel Sylvester, open to welcome and comfort them. He was well and widely known as a succorer of many by his fellow-members on both sides of the Atlantic. The old mansion so given to hos- pitality is still standing and is owned by a lineal de- scendant of its former possessor.
MEETINGS ON THE MAINLAND.
At the time of George Fox's visit to Long Island in the early summer of 1673 we begin to get glimpses of the mainland. In G. F.'s journal the following memo- randum occurs:
"At Oister Bay we had a very large Meeting: and the same day James Lancaster and Christopher Holder went over the Bay to Rye on the Continent, in Gover- nour Winthrop's Government, and had a meeting there." James Wood adds : " These were the first Quakers, so far as known, who set foot in Westchester County."
Vredeland, "the Land of Peace," as the Dutch then called Westchester, seemed a fit refuge for those who were " bruised and broken down by persecution," and by 1685 a number of Friends had settled near Westches- ter.
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By the Minutes of the Quarterly Meeting held at Jericho, Long Island, Twelfth month, 27th, 1685, it appears that a meeting was to be held at Westchester in place of Gravesend meeting on the last First day of Fourth month, 1686.
The Lord, who ever goeth before His people to choose out resting places for them, had at this juncture providentially opened a section of country for occu- pancy by the Friends. Between the Dutch settlers on the east side of the Hudson River and the Presbyterians of the Connecticut border there existed little good feel- ing. Bickerings and petty disputes prevailed, and, in their jealous avoidance of each other, these settlers had left between them a narrow strip of land which neither party cared to occupy. Upon this unused territory the Quakers, non conductors of animosity, now entered.
As Westchester County filled up they kept on north- ward through Putnam, Dutchess, Columbia, Rensse- laer, Saratoga, and Washington counties, and through the western border of Vermont into Canada.
With the growth and increase of the meetings came the establishment of new Quarters, and as these in turn outgrew their limits others were set up. Those west of the Hudson are of more recent date, all having been established within the present century.
MEETINGS IN CANADA.
Friends in Canada were first organized into meetings in 1804. Pelham and Yonge Street meetings belonged to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and Adolphus Monthly Meeting to New York. In 1809 these were organized into a Half-year's Meeting and all the meet-
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ings were united with New York Yearly Meeting. In 1841 Pelham Quarterly Meeting was established, and Yonge Street and West Lake Quarterly Meetings in 1848. In 1867 New York Yearly Meeting set off these meetings to form Canada Yearly Meeting.
Farnham, in the Province of Quebec, being remote and isolated from the other Canadian meetings and only twenty-five miles north of the Vermont border, was not included in the above arrangement. It is still an integral part of Ferrisburg Quarterly Meeting.
OUTLYING MEETINGS IN MICHIGAN, MASSACHUSETTS, AND PENNSYLVANIA.
Adrian Quarterly Meeting, established in Michigan in 1843 under the auspices of the New York Yearly Meeting, was in 1869 set off to Ohio.
Thriving meetings at East Hoosack, Mass., were at one time included within our limits and from 1815 to 1844 we find a Preparative Meeting at Deerfield, Penn., reporting to Farmington.
EARLY RECORDS AND THEIR PRESERVATION.
The first records are scanty ones. The Friends were too busy setting up new meetings and looking after the interests of the scattered flocks to devote much time to the chronicles of their doings or progress. They had not only to live down persecution and overcome preju- dice among their fellow-colonists, but their work was carried on amid all the difficulties and privations of pioneer life.
To plant or to visit meetings in those days meant the traversing of unsubdued wildernesses, the fording of rapid streams, the wading through marshes, and the
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tracking of paths, axe in hand, through the forests primeval of a new country; "in perils oft," yet ever proving the grace of God to be sufficient for the day's needs.
The first series of Minutes, comprising, so far as known, the earliest records of the meetings, bearing date 1672 to 1703, were found and rescued from oblivion some years ago in the garret of a Friend's house at Flushing. These sheets are fragmentary and discol- ored, but of much value as original documents. Their practical utility is enhanced by an excellent "transla- tion," index, and annotations by which they are accom- panied. The whole, well bound, makes a thin quarto volume. A second volume of Minutes, covering an im- portant period in the early history of the Yearly Meet- ing, from 1703 to 1746, is in the possession of Hicksite Friends at their Fifteenth Street Meeting-house, New York.
The subsequent Minutes from 1746 to the present time, filling in all eight or nine folio volumes, are in the possession of New York Yearly Meeting. There have also been collected through patient efforts of a few Friends the Quarterly, Monthly, and Preparative Meeting Minute Books from every section of the Yearly Meeting, so far as these could be obtained.
There are, besides the Minute Books, record books of births, marriages, deaths, and other matters. This col- lection of manuscripts forms a rich mine of information for the future historian.
The evolution of our Church polity and of the present order of conducting business is a study not without suggestiveness. Stereotyped forms of expression are of
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more recent growth. There is a delightful freshness and tenderness of spirit manifest in these early papers in the naïve recital of their dealings with offenders.
In a Minute made in 1674 Friends are advised:
"That such as sheould finde any thing upon them should goe unto a certain woman member of Flushing and speak unto her in love and in ye meekness for taking a husband of ye world and not in ye unity of Friends."
Another member justified her disorderly marriage to " Ffriends greef," yet they " doe wait with grate ten- derness to such as are weake with hope that ye God will grant her repentance."
On other pages we read of the labors of some of their fellow-members over two estranged brethren, and of the reward of their persistent faithfulness in the recon- ciliation of these two, who shake hands with an avowal of renewed good will in the open meeting.
In 1676 the message of ten women Friends to a sick sister is quite touching. They send her their " deare love," and commiserating her illness they send her also "sum things to nurish thy sick body." They desire that she " may be preserved in tenderness and in the feare of the Lord to the end of her days "
How loosely constructed the tenure of membership was at that time may be seen by an entry on the Yearly Meeting Minutes of 1747. "The difficulty in knowing their members" was a subject brought up from one of the Subordinate Meetings This was referred to a com- mittee, who found it " too weighty a matter to come at at present." Year after year it was brought up for con- sideration, but it was uot till 1756 that the Yearly
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Meeting adopted in the following Minute the solution of the knotty problem:
"ON KNOWING MEMBERS.
" It is concluded that none be esteemed members but such as come in by request and are entered in the Monthly Meeting where they belong, or such as are the descendants of Friends, and that all such be dealt with if they have transgressed, let their transgressions be of never so long standing."
PLACES OF HOLDING THE YEARLY MEETING.
New York Yearly Meeting was held at
Flushing, Long Island,
from 1695 to 1777.
Westbury,
1777 " 1794.
New York City,
1794 " 1873.
Rochester, N. Y., in 1873.
New York City,
" 1874 and 1875.
Rochester, N. Y.,
" 1876.
New York City,
" 1877. from 1878 to 1882, inclusive.
Glens Falls. N. Y.,
New York City,
Glens Falls, N. Y.,
New York City,
Glens Falls, N. Y., Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Glens Falls, N. Y., New York City,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
in 1883.
" 1884 and 1885.
" 1886. Joint sessions adopted. from 1887 to 1889, inclusive.
1890 " 1892,
in 1893.
" 1894 and 1895, Centennial and Bicenten- nial years. in 1896.
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LIST OF CLERKS OF THE YEARLY MEETING.
No Clerk appears to have been appointed prior to 1763. The following Friends have since that time served the Meeting in this capacity :
Edward Burling,
1763 to 1774, inclusive.
George Bowne,
1775.
Oliver Hull,
1776.
William Rickman,
1777.
Oliver Hull, 1778 and 1779.
Silas Downing,
1780 to 1783, inclusive.
Edmund Prior,
1784 " 1786,
George Bowne,
1787 " 1789,
James Mott,
1790 " 1792,
George Bowne,
1793 " 1797,
Richard Mott,
1798.
John Murray, Jr.,
1799 and 1800.
Richard Mott,
1801 to 1803, inclusive.
John Murray, Jr.,
1804 " 1806,
Richard Mott. 1807.
John Barrow,
1808.
Richard Mott,
1809 to 1816, inclusive.
Samuel Parsons,
1817 " 1841,
Richard Mott,
1842 " 1850,
Richard Carpenter,
1851 " 1856,
William Wood,
1837 " 1867, 1868.
Stephen Wood,
William Wood,
1869 and 1870.
Robert Lindley Murray,
1871 to 1874, inclusive.
Augustus Taber, James Wood,
1875 ** 1881, 1882.
Augustus Taber, 1883 to 1890, inclusive.
Charles H. Jones,
1891 " 1893.
James Wood,
1894 and 1895.
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MEETINGS FOR DISCIPLINE.
The first Meetings for Discipline in New York of which we have accounts were held in 1671 or 1672. Rules for the government of the Society in that early day, similar to those now in use, are found in the records.
In 1762 the Discipline of Philadelphia, as revised by that Meeting in 1719, was approved by the Yearly Meet- ing of New York and recommended to be used by the Subordinate Meetings. In 1783 the Discipline was re- vised, and again in 1800 at which time 250 copies were ordered printed, written copies having been in use up to that date. In 1810, 1859, and 1877 the Discipline was again revised, the last time very thoroughly. In 1895 a new edition, containing a few minor alterations, was published and is now in use.
In 1749 the Yearly Meeting directed the appointment of representatives by Monthly to Quarterly Meetings and by the latter to the Yearly Meeting.
The Meeting for Sufferings, so-called because the first work that devolved upon it was the investigation and relief of Friends who were suffering under persecu- tion for Truth's sake, was established in 1758. In 1859 its title was changed to that of Representative Meeting.
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NEW YORK YEARLY MEETING
OF TO-DAY :
ITS SUBORDINATE MEETINGS, QUARTERLY, MONTHLY,
PREPARATIVE.
ITS SESSIONS, OFFICERS,
AND
STANDING COMMITTEES.
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NEW YORK YEARLY MEETING.
Among the fifteen Yearly Meetings of Friends in the world New York occupies in order of priority the sixth place, their establishment having been in the following order :
London Yearly Meeting, 1668.
Dublin (Half-year) " 1670.
Baltimore Yearly Meeting, 1672.
New England Yearly Meeting, . .
1683.
Philadelphia
1685.
New York 66
. 1695.
The Orthodox Society of Friends forms one body, but each Yearly Meeting constitutes an independent au- tonomy in enacting and executing its disciplinary regu- lations.
The bond of union among the several Yearly Meetings is maintained by the interchange of annual epistles, by issuing and receiving the credentials of travelling minis- ters and of certificates of removal to members on change of residence, and by joint participation in religious and benevolent enterprises.
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Total membership of New York Yearly Meeting in 1895, 3,808. .
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NEW YORK YEARLY MEETING.
NEW YORK YEARLY MEETING.
includes
Nine Quarterly Meetings, Twenty-Seven Monthly Meetings, Thirty-Eight Preparative Meetings, Six Indulged Meetings.
QUARTERLY MEETINGS.
New York,
Ferrisburg,
Purchase,
Butternuts,
Nine Partners,
Scipio,
Cornwall,
Farmington.
Glens Falls,
MONTHLY MEETINGS.
New York,
Westbury.
Ferrisburg, Farnham.
Purchase,
Butternuts,
Chappaqua, Yorktown.
Westmoreland, West Branch, Smyrna.
Poughkeepsie, Nine Partners, Oblong,
Scipio,
Hector,
Stanford.
Evans' Mills.
Cornwall,
Farmington, Rochester,
Marlboro.
Elba,
Glens Falls,
Moreau.
Hartland, Collins.
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NEW YORK YEARLY MEETING.
PREPARATIVE MEETINGS,
New York, Brooklyn.
Ferrisburg,
Monkton,
Westbury.
South Starksboro.
Purchase,
Morris,
Mamaroneck,
West Laurens,
Chappaqua,
Smyrna, Brookfield.
Croton Valley,
Yorktown.
Croton.
North Street, Poplar Ridge, Skaneateles, Union Springs.
Rochester,
Elba,
Cornwall,
Batavia,
Highland Mills,
Hartland,
Valley,
Collins,
Clintondale,
Farmington,
Milton,
Macedon.
Rosendale,
Butterville.
INDULGED MEETINGS.
Unionville, near Valley, Ulster Co.
Cornwall Landing-on the Hudson. Luzerne, near Glens Falls.
Queensbury. ) South Glens Falls, near Glens Falls. Fort Edward Centre, " "
+
Poughkeepsie, La Grange, Stanford, Clinton Corners.
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NEW YORK YEARLY MEETING.
ORDER OF MEETINGS.'
The Preparative Meetings are held once a month. They send representatives and report to the Monthly Meetings.
The Monthly Meetings are the executive power so far as the individual members are concerned, subject to appeal to the Quarterly or Yearly Meeting.
They are held monthly and send representatives and reports to the Quarterly Meetings.
Each Quarterly Meeting convenes four times a year and receives reports from the Monthly Meetings which constitute it. A summary of these reports is made and forwarded to the Yearly Meeting. Several Friends are appointed at the session of the Quarterly Meeting which precedes the Yearly Meeting to attend it as represen- tatives.
Upon these Quarterly Meeting representatives de- volves the nomination each year of the Clerks and Standing Committees of the Yearly Meeting, such nomination being subject to the ratification of the Meeting at large. Other important business is referred to these Quarterly Meeting representatives during the sessions of the Yearly Meeting.
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