Tom, the most helpful early information I have found is in Joseph Besse's _A Collection of the Sufferings of the People Called Quakers_ (1650-1689), published in 1753. I had several gotten several of the printed paperbacks for different areas of England from Sessions of York: http://www.sessionsofyork.co.uk/books/hist_qkr.html Later I found that it is online at Earlham School of Religion's "Digital Quaker Collection": http://esr.earlham.edu/dqc/ Then you go to the Bibliography: http://esr.earlham.edu/dqc/biblio.html Then select the volume that covers the English county you want. A good source for early American Quakers is _A Collection of Memorials Concerning Divers Deceased Ministers and Others of the People Called Quakers: in Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, and Parts Adjacent, from Nearly the First Settlement Thereof to the Year 1787, with Some of the Last Expressions and Exhortations of Many of Them_, online at: http://www.archive.org/details/collectionofmemo00soci It is wonderful that these previously hard-to-find and very expensive early works are now available free online. I hope you find this information helpful. Kathryn Schultz [email protected] >Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:39:37 -0500 (EST) >From: [email protected] >Subject: [Q-R] Quaker Records, 1650-75 >To: "Thomas E. Kirk" <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected], [email protected] >Message-ID: > <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > >You are at the very beginning of Quaker record keeping. The monthly >meeting structure was put in place in the 1660s. Some earlier marriages, >births, and deaths can be found in their records, but records before 1670 >are spotty. > >Tom Hamm > > >Can anyone explain how the various Quaker records were kept? I am trying > > to gather information from long ago (1650-75) and the monthly >minutes do not > > exist for this time period and I wonder if certain records having to do >> with marriages, removals, testimonies of sorts were kept in other books? >> Thank you, > > tom