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This manuscript book of meetings, compiled in about 1765 by an anonymous author, lists the Quaker Meetings in the Yearly Meetings of New England, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and North Carolina. According to a note on the back of the first page of the photostatic copy, the original manuscript was located at the Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, as of 1932, and that it had previously belonged to a woman named Mary Olney.

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John Bowne's biography, "John Bowne: Pioneer of Freedom," written by John Cox Jr., is based on Bowne's letters, journals, and public records, and describes his early life in England, his emigration to the colonies, the arrival of the Quakers, his marriage, and his conversion to Quakersim.

Scope and Content note This collection is comprised of the single volume typed manuscript copy of the Eleazer Haviland papers, which are held at the Dutchess County Historical Society, New York. The volume includes “An Act for granting Indulgencies to the People called Quakers” May 1793, Diary, 1806-1858, Letters, 1862-1863, and “The Brick Meeting House in the Nine Partners,” an address before the Dutchess County Historical Society by Stephen H. Merritt, 1921. It also includes a name and place index for the diary...

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The collection contains a copy of the communication between Isaiah Thorne and his relative, a servant of the Lord Joseph Hoag about his admiration for Joseph Hoag.

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This collection contains a map of all the Meetings belonging to [New] York Yearly Meeting. The first known Quaker meeting in New York took place in Manhattan, 1671. The New York Yearly Meeting held their first meeting in 1696 after setting up at the New England Yearly Meeting in 1695.

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Correspondence of Quaker Mekeel family members and relatives in New York state, Ohio, and elsewhere, 1824-1851. Predominant among them are Arthur Mekeel (1826-1850), Caleb Mekeel (1743-1859), Isaac Mekeel (1823-1844), Joshua Mekeel (b. 1795), and Phebe Quinby Mekeel (1800-1861).

Overview This collection is comprised of a single folder of miscellaneous materials attributed to Quakers in New York. Included are extracts of letters to and from Dartmouth Monthly Meeting, materials related to Stephen Buffington, descriptions of the area around E. Nottingham Meeting, and manuscripts regarding Elias Hicks. Additionally, this collection includes manuscripts that appear to have lines drawn using a mathematical compass, with biblical extracts copied around the sides. Some of these...

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This collection contains handwritten certificates of removal (letters of transit for a person or family that is leaving one meeting and seeking to join another) addressed to the Stanford Monthly Meeting.