Meeting minutes of Westbury, Flushing, and New York meetings of the Society of Friends, 1671-1703 1895-1898

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Meeting minutes of Westbury, Flushing, and New York meetings of the Society of Friends, 1671-1703 1895-1898

Transcript, created in 1895-1898 by John Cox, Jr. and George W. Cocks, of the minutes of monthly, quarterly, and yearly meetings of the Society of Friends from 1671 to 1703. These became known respectively as the Flushing meetings, Westbury meetings, and New York meetings and contain the earliest extant minutes of a Quaker meeting in America

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Cox, John, 1860-1951

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John Cox (1860-1951), Quaker genealogist, lived in or near New York City for most of his life. He was an architect, engineer, and poet, but his primary interests were religious tolerance and genealogy. As Custodian of Records for the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, he worked to collect surviving records from both Orthodox and Hicksite meetings. From the description of Genealogical research letters, 1942-1945. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 4279...

Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends : approximately 1671-1828 : New York, N.Y.)

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While the Monthly Meeting of New York, also known as Flushing until 1795, was well established by 1682, the date of its first organization is unknown. After 1828, at the time of the Hicksite Separation, there were two New York Monthly Meetings; the Orthodox met at Rutgers Medical College and later on Henry Street, and the Hicksites retained the Rose Street and Hester Street Meeting houses. The 15th Street (Hicksite) and 20th Street (Orthodox) New York Monthly Meetings were reunited in 1958. In 1...