New York Yearly Meeting collection on conscientious objection, 1914-1970.

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New York Yearly Meeting collection on conscientious objection, 1914-1970.

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This collection contains papers concerning conscientious objection collected by New York Yearly Meeting. Folder 1 contains a small amount of correspondence regarding COs in 1914 from Ulysses DeRosa, a member of New York Yearly Meeting (Orthodox); folders 2 and 3 contain largely correspondence, 1939-1946, concerning work with COs by the subcommittee on Conscientious Objectors of the New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Peace and Social Order, Joint Work-Camp Committee, and the Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors which centralized the work of advising; folder 4 contains letters, 1939-1940, from Quakers affirming their membership in the Society of Friends and their belief in the peace testimony; folder 5 contains material concerning registration and draft issues, 1948-1970.

5 folders.

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

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New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends was formally organized in 1695. In the 1660s Friends' Meetings began to be held on Long Island. From that time through the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth century, New York Yearly Meeting Friends began to spread to the north and west from the New York City area. In 1828, the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation took place in New York. Subsequent separations occurred in the 1840s and 1850s, with more radical Hicksites ...

DeRosa, Ulysses, 1892-,

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