Collection of sufferings of Flushing Friends during the American Revolution, 1775-1789.

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Collection of sufferings of Flushing Friends during the American Revolution, 1775-1789.

Contains a document listing the Sufferings of Friends belonging to Flushing Monthly Meeting given to the Committee appointed to inspect the Sufferings of Friends, 1782. Also, accounts submitted by individuals and related epistles, 1775 and 1778, from London and Philadelphia Yearly Meetings.

2 folders.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6949163

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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 ...

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...