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Finding aid encoded by FHL Staff 2007 Finding aid written in English Summary Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College Stamford-Greenwich Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Stamford, Conn.) Stamford-Greenwich Monthly Meeting Records 1956-2002 3 linear ft. RG2/NY/S721 These records are entirely in English For current information on the location of records, please consult the Library’s online catalogue Records of Stamford-Greenwich Monthly Meeting, 1956-2002. History of the Meeting

In 1948 a meeting for worship was held at the home of Jack LeRoy deForest in Stamford, Connecticut. It begame a preparative meeting in 1949. Stamford Monthly Meeting was set off from Purchase Monthly Meeting in 1953. In the late 1990s, membership began to decline; the Meeting was laid down by Purchase Quarterly Meeting in November of 2010.

Scope and Content of the Records

Records of Stamford-Greenwich Monthly Meeting. Includes Membership records 1980-1989; Minutes 1956-1989; Newsletters 1965-1968/1984-1989 (gaps); State of the Meeting Reports 1960-1967, 1986; Miscellaneous 1950-2002.

Organization of the Records

Divided into series: Vital Records: 1.1 1890-1989, 1.2 1890-2002. Minutes: 2.1 1956-1958, 2.2 1959-1960, 2.3 1961, 2.4 1962-1965, 2.5 1969-1972, 2.6 1975-1977, 2.7 1977-1979, 2.8 1979-1980, 2.9 1980-1981, 2.10 1981-1982, 2.11 1983-1984, 2.12 1985, 2.13 1986, 2.14 1987, 2.15 1988-1989. Newsletters: 3.1 1965-1968, 3.2 1984-1989 (gaps). State of Meeting Reports: 4.1 1960-1967, 1986. Miscellaneous: 5.1 1949-1998 (gaps), 5.2 c.1956, 1988, 5.3 1998, 5.4 c.1983-1987, 5.5 c.1955-c.1980, 5.6 c.1998, 5.7 1973, 5.8 1998, 5.9 1950, 5.10 1975, 5.11 c.1950-c.1990.

Access Restrictions:

Where available, access is through microfilm.

Use Restrictions:

Information on reproduction policies available in the library.

Custodial History:

Transferred from Haviland Records Room by NYYM in 1997.

Acquisition Information:

Deposit, 1997.

Index Terms

This collection is indexed under the following headings. Researchers desiring materials about related topics should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics: Society of Friends -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County. Subjects: Stamford-Greenwich Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Stamford, Conn.) DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: To request materials on-site, please make sure to use the correct call numbers; patrons must use microfilm if it is available.

Vital Records Membership Records: Index; Records #1-75 1890-1989 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 1.1

Records not organized alphabetically; consult index to determine correct record numbers

SW: No film. Membership Records #76-188 1890-2002 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 1.2

Records not organized alphabetically; consult index (RG2/NY/S721 1.1) to determine correct record numbers

SW: No film. Business Meeting Minutes 1956-1958 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 2.1 SW: No film. Minutes 1959-1960 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 2.2 SW: No film. Minutes 1961 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 2.3 SW: No film. Minutes 1962 - November 1965 1 Volume U RG2/NY/S721 2.4 SW: No film. Minutes June 1969 - 1972 1 Volume U RG2/NY/S721 2.5

Pages tipped into vol. in reverse chronological order (1969 minutes at the back of the book; 1972 minutes at the front of the book)

SW: No film. Minutes June 1975 - February 1977 1 Volume U RG2/NY/S721 2.6

Pages tipped into vol. in reverse chronological order

SW: No film. Minutes March 1977 - February 1979 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 2.7 SW: No film. Minutes March 1979 - June 1980 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 2.8 SW: No film. Minutes July 1980 - June 1981 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 2.9 SW: No film. Minutes July 1981 - 1982 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 2.10 SW: No film. Minutes 1983 -1984 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 2.11 SW: No film. Minutes 1985 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 2.12 SW: No film. Minutes 1986 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 2.13 SW: No film. Minutes 1987 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 2.14 SW: No film. Minutes 1988-1989 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 2.15 SW: No film. Newsletters Newsletters 1965-1968 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 3.1 SW: No film. Newsletters 1984-1989 (gaps) 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 3.2 SW: No film. State of the Meeting Reports State of Meeting Reports 1960-1967, 1986 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 4.1 SW: No film. Miscellaneous Stamford-Greenwich Friends Archive Material 1949-1998 (gaps) 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 5.1

Includes information about meeting anniversary celebrations, list of meeting clerks 1949-1984, articles about meeting for business and clerkship

SW: No film. Meetinghouse History c. 1956, 1988 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 5.2

Contains a pamphlet about renovation of meeting house, and "First Baptist Church to Friends Meeting House: The Evolution of a Site" (Report compiled by Judith F. Abraham, Yale University.)

SW: No film. Stamford Greenwich Quaker Meeting, by Errett Dunlap January 1998 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 5.3

Oral history as told to Rhoda Jenkins. Life in the one-room school house under the tutorship of Mary B. Daly.

SW: No film. Concern: Peace c. 1983 - 1987 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 5.4

Includes information about Peace Library and Children's Non-Violent Responses to Violence educational program

SW: No film. Histories of Connecticut Meetings c.1955 - c.1980 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 5.5

Brief histories of Quakers in Connecticut. 3 or 4 different versions of history of Stamford-Greenwich. Brief histories of Wilton, New London, Housatonic, and Middletown meetings.

SW: No film. Fifty-Year Memoir of a Connecticut Friends Meeting Based on 1948-1998 Entries from the Diary of John L. Deforest 3 Folders U RG2/NY/S721 5.6

Manuscript divided into 3 folders. Includes preface, introduction, and appendix.

SW: No film. Scrapbook 1973 1 Volume U RG2/NY/S721 5.7 SW: No film. Stamford-Greenwich Meeting Scrapbook Vol. II June 1998 1 Volume U RG2/NY/S721 5.8 SW: No film. Scrapbook 1950 1 Volume U RG2/NY/S721 5.9 SW: No film. Christmas Scrapbook 1975 1 Volume U RG2/NY/S721 5.10 SW: No film. Photographs c.1950-c.1990 1 Folder U RG2/NY/S721 5.11

Photographs of meetinghouse and members; some unidentified.

SW: No film.