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 <lckoehlr@optonline.net> 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: <http://www.swarthmore.edu/>. An online catalog can be accessed at <http://www.swarthmore.edu/fhl.xml>. 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 <www.swarthmore.edu/library/friends/hazard/index.html>. 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: <OF02AEE58B.6CA45104-ON852573D9.007660C2@simon.com> >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