I love the story's thank you always Vickie J -------------- Original message -------------- From: Barbara de Mare <barbarademare@yahoo.com> > Carol, My grandparents are buried in the Upton Lake Friends Cemetery in Clinton > Corners, Dutchess County. It is one of two Quaker burial grounds in Clinton > Corners. They were not Quaker; they were Baptists (my grandfather was > Episcopalian until he married my grandmother). An interesting aside--the old > Quaker Meeting House in Clinton Corners became the Grange Hall many years ago. > My grandparents met there at a Grange dance (1917 or 1918). > > Barbara L. de Mare, Esq. > Historian, genealogist and attorney > 155 Polifly Road > Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 > (201) 567-9440 office > BarbaradeMare@yahoo.com (home) > http://historygenealogyesq.blogspot.com/ > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Linda C. Koehler > To: nydutche@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:51:28 AM > Subject: Re: [NYDUTCHE] Quakers in Duchess Co,NY > > > Carol, > > Just a quick review of Quaker records-- Local meetings called meetings > for > worship or Preparative Meetings (PMs) conducted their own weekly > worship > meetings; it was this local group that attended church in the building > called a meeting house. Delegates from these local weekly meetings > attended a Monthly Meeting, a regional meeting with territorial > jurisdiction which met once a month for business; two or more meetings > for > worship would constitute a Monthly Meeting (historically). Going up > the > ladder and covering larger geographic areas, there was also a Quarterly > > Meeting (delegates met 4 times a year) and a Yearly Meeting (delegates > met > once a year). > > For the genealogist, it is the Monthly Meeting records that are most > important, since their minutes and record books contain the Society's > vital > records. The Monthly Meeting could hold property, accept and expel > members, issue and accept removal certificates (requests to move from > one > Monthly Meeting to another Monthly Meeting, thus showing where people > migrated and the approximate time they made the move), record > marriages, > accept and record reports of the local meetings about births and > deaths. > > A Monthly Meeting often took the name of one of its local meetings or > perhaps the town which had the most PM's, but the Monthly Meeting is a > separate entity from any of the meetings for worship under its > control. Even if one knows the name of the local meeting house that a > Friend probably attended, it is important to know which Monthly Meeting > it > belonged to, since vital records will be recorded there. The Dutchess > County meetings most likely to include members who lived in the Beekman > > Patent would be Oblong MM (the earliest) and Oswego MM. > > Original Dutchess County Quaker records have been deposited at > Swarthmore > Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA > 19081-1397 > (Telephone 610- 328-8000). Website: . An > online catalog can be accessed at . > And > as mentioned before, many of these records have been filmed by LDS. > > But, the jackpot here is that James E. Hazard created a name index to > New > York Yearly Meeting records that can be accessed online at > . > > You didn't have to be Quaker to be buried in a Friends' > Cemetery. Conversely, in many of their early burying grounds, Friends > preferred not to mark graves with headstones, so you have to hope they > are > mentioned in the records of a burial committee. > > Linda > > > At 03:01 AM 1/24/2008, you wrote: > > >Today's Topics: > > 6. Re: Quakers in Duchess Co,NY (cheap@simon.com) > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >Message: 6 > >Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:37:52 -0500 > >From: cheap@simon.com > >Subject: Re: [NYDUTCHE] Quakers in Duchess Co,NY > >To: nydutche@rootsweb.com > >Message-ID: > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > >Charlotte, > >"A suggestion to all of you researching in Duchess > >county--whether or not they were Quaker, and especially if you are > >not familiar with Duchess Co. reference books---Look for copies of > >the several VOLUMES of ' SETTLERS of the BEEKMAN PATENT' by > >DOHERTY, Frank J.. Vol.1 was pub. in 1990. I think Mr. Doherty is now > >on Vol. 6 or 7. This man will be or is already --a Duchess Co. HERO." > > > >Are you saying that many of the people in Beekman Patent were > Quakers? > >I have 2 people buried in "The Friends cemetery" in Dutchess. > Elizabeth & > >John DICKINSON, John died 1845 > >any suggestions on how to search for Quaker info for someone who has > never > >had a Quaker in the family tree before? > > > >Thanks, > >Carol L. Heap > >Florida > > > >------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYDUTCHE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYDUTCHE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message