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Richmond Friends Meeting Records, 1849-2004. Accession 40877, Church records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Gift of the Richmond Friends Meeting, 29 September 2003 and 28 May 2004.
In 1795, a Richmond Indulged Meeting was organized under the care of the White Oak Swamp Monthly Meeting. When the Weyanoke Monthly Meeting (formerly known as the White Oak Swamp Monthly Meeting) was disbanded in 1841, its members joined the Richmond Particular or Preparative Meeting, which then became part of the Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting. In 1844, the Richmond Meeting was suspended under an agreement that the Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting would meet occasionally in Richmond. By 1854, the Monthly Meeting was only meeting in Richmond. In 1875, the Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting officially changed its name to the Richmond Monthly Meeting.
The Richmond Monthly Meeting is part of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
Records, 1849-2004 (bulk 1914-2004), of the Richmond Friends Meeting, including committee files, correspondence, financial records, historical materials, membership records, minutes, newsletters, publications, and reports that document Quaker history and tradition in Richmond and Virginia. These records also detail the meeting's involvement in the war tax resistance movement, helping war refugees since World War I with the American Friends Service Committee, and social issues, such as same-sex marriage and terminal illness.
Organized into the following series and subseries:
I. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1963-1999 (Misc. reels 4659-4663) II. Clerk (Misc. reel 4664) III. Recorder (Misc. reel 4664) IV. Treasurer, 1914-1985 (Misc. reel 4664) V. Meeting Historian (Misc. reels 4665-4667) VI. Committee Files (Misc. reels 4668-4681) Subseries A. Ad Hoc Committee on the Clearing (Misc. reel 4668) Subseries B. Ad Hoc Committee on Growth (Misc. reel 4668) Subseries C. Advancement and Outreach Study (Misc. reel 4668) Subseries D. Bicentennial (Misc. reel 4668) Subseries E. Buildings and Grounds (Misc. reels 4669-4670) Subseries F. Care and Counsel (Misc. reels 4671-4672) Subseries G. Clearing (Misc. reel 4673) Subseries H. Financial Stewardship (Misc. reel 4673) Subseries I. Ministry and Counsel (Misc. reel 4673) Subseries J. Ministry and Worship (Misc. reel 4673) Subseries K. Peace (Misc. reel 4673) Subseries L. Peace Education (Misc. reels 4674-4675) Subseries M. Religious Education (Misc. reels 4676-4680) Subseries N. Spring Retreat (Misc. reel 4681) Subseries O. Trustees (Misc. reel 4681) VII. Membership Records, 1849-1998 (Misc. reels 4682-4684) VIII. Newsletters, 1956-2001 (Misc. reels 4685-4688) IX. American Friends Service Committee (Misc. reel 4688) X. War Tax Resistance (Misc. reel 4689) XI. Virginia Quarterly Meeting, 1961-1975 (Misc. reel 4690) XII. Representative Meeting, 25 October 1997 (Misc. reel 4690) XIII. Ashland Friends Meeting, 1991-1999 (Misc. reel 4690) XIV. Midlothian Friends Meeting, 1988-1995 (Misc. reel 4691) XV. Publications (NOT MICROFILMED)Arrangement of Microfilm:
Misc. reel 4659 contains: Series I: Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1963-1999 (Box 1, Folder 1-12) Misc. reel 4660 contains: Series I: Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1963-1999 (Box 1, Folder 13-20) Misc. reel 4661 contains: Series I: Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1963-1999 (Box 1, Folder 21-27) Misc. reel 4662 contains: Series I: Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1963-1999 (Box 1, Folder 28 - Box 2, Folder 3) Misc. reel 4663 contains: Series I: Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1963-1999 (Box 2, Folder 4-11) Misc. reel 4664 contains: Series II: Clerk; Series III: Recorder; Series IV: Treasurer, 1914-1985 (Box 2, Folders 12-29) Misc. reel 4665 contains: Series V: Meeting Historian (Box 2, Folder 30-48) Misc. reel 4666 contains: Series V: Meeting Historian (Box 2, Folder 49 - Box 3, Folder 4) Misc. reel 4667 contains: Series V: Meeting Historian (Box 3, Folder 5-18) Misc. reel 4668 contains: Series VI: Committee Files, Subseries A-D (Box 3, Folder 19-38) Misc. reel 4669 contains: Series VI: Committee Files, Subseries E (Box 3, Folder 39-47) Misc. reel 4670 contains: Series VI: Committee Files, Subseries E (Box 3, Folder 48 - Box 4, Folder 6) Misc. reel 4671 contains: Series VI: Committee Files, Subseries F (Box 4, Folder 7-21) Misc. reel 4672 contains: Series VI: Committee Files, Subseries F (Box 4, Folder 22-31) Misc. reel 4673 contains: Series VI: Committee Files, Subseries G-K (Box 4, Folder 32-57) Misc. reel 4674 contains: Series VI: Committee Files, Subseries L (Box 5, Folder 1-17) Misc. reel 4675 contains: Series VI: Committee Files, Subseries L (Box 5, Folder 18-29) Misc. reel 4676 contains: Series VI: Committee Files, Subseries M (Box 5, Folder 30-53) Misc. reel 4677 contains: Series VI: Committee Files, Subseries M (Box 5, Folder 54 - Box 6, Folder 9) Misc. reel 4678 contains: Series VI: Committee Files, Subseries M (Box 6, Folder 10-23) Misc. reel 4679 contains: Series VI: Committee Files, Subseries M (Box 6, Folder 24-29) Misc. reel 4680 contains: Series VI: Committee Files, Subseries M (Box 6, Folder 30-40) Misc. reel 4681 contains: Series VI: Committee Files, Subseries N-O (Box 6, Folder 41-51) Misc. reel 4682 contains: Series VII: Membership Records, 1849-1998 (Box 6, Folder 52 - Box 7, Folder 8) Misc. reel 4683 contains: Series VII: Membership Records, 1849-1998 (Box 7, Folder 9-17) Misc. reel 4684 contains: Series VII: Membership Records, 1849-1998 (Box 7, Folder 18-35) Misc. reel 4685 contains: Series VIII: Newsletters, 1956-2001 (Box 7, Folder 36-43) Misc. reel 4686 contains: Series VIII: Newsletters, 1956-2001 (Box 7, Folder 44 - Box 8, Folder 6) Misc. reel 4687 contains: Series VIII: Newsletters, 1956-2001 (Box 8, Folder 7-11) Misc. reel 4688 contains: Series VIII: Newsletters, 1956-2001; Series IX: American Friends Service Committee (Box 8, Folder 12-22) Misc. reel 4689 contains: Series X: War Tax Resistance (Box 8, Folder 23-33) Misc. reel 4690 contains: Series XI: Virginia Quarterly Meeting, 1961-1975; Series XII: Representative Meeting, 25 Oct. 1997; Series XIII. Ashland Friends Meeting, 1991-1999 (Box 8, Folder 34-41) Misc. reel 4691 contains: Series XIV. Midlothian Friends Meeting, 1988-1995 (Box 9, Folder 1-13)Includes meeting minutes, committee reports, treasurer's reports, budget and financial records, attendance lists, and membership records that document the activities of the Richmond Friends Meeting, including the meeting's various committees.
Arranged chronologically.
Consists of records of the clerk of the Richmond Friends Meeting, including correspondence, memos, reports, newsletters, and brochures. These records concern meeting business, communications between the Monthly meeting and the Yearly meeting, contributions, committee clerking, and the realignment of the Quarterly meeting.
This series includes a handbook on the creation, maintenance, and preservation of Meeting records, and reports and memos concerning the role of the Meeting Recorder.
Contains a bank deposit book recording deposits in the Savings Bank of Richmond for the years 1915-1917, bills, 1917-1921, budgets, 1974-1985, cancelled checks, 1916-1921, incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1916-1992, expenditures, 1914-1918, flip charts highlighting operating expenses and the proposed budget for 1959, receipts, 1916-1922, and a treasurer's account book, 1917-1935. These records document the financial history of the Richmond Friends Meeting. Of note is the correspondence and cancelled checks concerning the fundraising activities of the Richmond Friends Meeting for various charities.
Includes materials relating to Quaker history and tradition, the history of Quakers in Richmond and Virginia, and the history of the Richmond Friends Meeting. Of note are the materials documenting Richmond Quakers during the Civil War, and efforts to save the Jacob House from being destroyed in the expansion of Virginia Commonwealth University. Also includes an article on the John Miller House, photocopies of the journals of Elias Hicks and John Woolman, agendas and minutes of the History Committee from August 1992 to September 1993, research notes and rough drafts of the history of Richmond Friends Meeting written by Mary Fran Hughes, correspondence containing information on Quaker history and requests for information, and records of the Friends Christian Endeavor Society.
Arranged alphabetically.
Includes files of the following committees: Ad Hoc Committee on the Clearing, Ad Hoc Committee on Growth, Advancement and Outreach Study, Bicentennial, Buildings and Grounds, Care and Counsel, Clearing, Financial Stewardship, Ministry and Counsel, Ministry and Worship, Peace, Peace Education, Religious Education, Spring Retreat, and Trustees.
Includes reports, minutes, and background information of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Clearing, created to study the ongoing management of the Clearing, property the Richmond Friends Meeting owns in Amelia County, Virginia for the purpose of religious retreats and gatherings. The background information includes reports and minutes of the Clearing Committee and Business Meeting regarding the history and maintenance of the Clearing since its donation in the early 1980's.
This ad hoc committee was organized to explore the issues surrounding the continued growth of the Richmond Friends Meeting. Includes minutes, reports, and notes.
Includes minutes, correspondence, and reports, 1985, of the Advancement and Outreach Study Committee, organized to determine whether the Richmond Friends Meeting needed an outreach committee.
This series includes correspondence, financial records, invitations, log books, minutes, newsletter articles, press releases, programs, and reports, concerning the organizing, publicizing, and celebrating of the 200th anniversary of the Richmond Friends Meeting in 1995. The log books contain a monthly account of the planning of the bicentennial celebration.
This series includes calendars, correspondence, financial records, memos, minutes and agendas, receipts, reports, concerning the care and upkeep of the building and grounds from 1977 to 1995. Also includes architectural drawings for the handicapped access ramps and other materials for making the Meeting House ADA compliant.
This committee is responsible for overseeing marriages, and helping members cope with illness, personal problems, material needs, and death. This series contains material relating to a variety of topics germane to the activities of the committee, including burial, cremation, and organ donation, death and dying, hospice care, terminal illness, living wills, memorial societies, marriage, same-sex marriage, sex education. Also includes committee minutes for March-November 1981 and April 1982.
This committee is responsible for the maintenance of the Clearing, property the Richmond Friends Meeting owns in Amelia County, Virginia for the purpose of religious retreats and gatherings. This series consists of a report to the business meeting, dated 21 May 2000.
This committee is responsible for handling the financial matters of the Richmond Friends Meeting. Includes budget request guidelines for 1998, and minutes for 7 February 1993.
Includes correspondence, 4 June 1963 and 28 January 1966, and minutes, December 1974, April-May, 1976, October 1976, February-March 1980, and September-October 1980. The correspondence concerns meetings and the minutes document the activities of the Ministry and Counsel committee. In 1981, this committee became the Ministry and Worship Committee.
This committee is responsible for holding meetings for worship, marriages, and memorials, and nurturing the spiritual state of the meeting. This series consists of correspondence, memos, minutes, and reports concerning the activities of the committee. Includes files relating to death, eldering, and same-sex unions, as well as minutes, 1987-1992 and Spiritual state of the meeting reports from 1956, 1975-1990, of which the earlier ones were generated by the Ministry and Counsel Committee. Also includes information relating to the Ashland Indulged Meeting, Farmville Indulged Meeting, and Midlothian Preparative Meeting. The Ministry and Worship Committee is responsible for assisting in the organization of worship meetings outside of the Richmond Monthly Meeting.
Includes newspaper advertisements, correspondence, publications, and reports concerning the efforts of Quakers to keep the United States out of World War I and help the ease the suffering of war refugees. Of note is a copy of an interview with Count Tolstoi discussing Russian Relief.
Consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, and publications focusing on the committee's responsibility to foster a greater understanding of peace among meeting members. Includes files on conscientious objectors, selective service, military tax withholding, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Friends World Committee, International Women's Friendship Conference for World Peace, UNESCO, and Vietnam. Of note are files relating to the Richmond Friends' efforts against a proposal to establish a military school within the Richmond public school system.
This series includes bibliographies, correspondence, curriculum resources, financial records, memos, minutes, newsletters, publications, and reports that document the activities of the committee responsible for organizing religious education among the meeting's members. Also includes information on First Day Schools, committee files of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Religious Education Committee, such as annual reports, financial records, mailing lists, and minutes, and copies of the Quaker publications, Interchange and The Quaking Post .
Includes announcements, correspondence, reports, and schedules concerning the Spring Retreats held at the Clearing from 1978 to 2000.
The Trustees' files concern gift policy, insurance, the safe-deposit box, burial space for Ava Fish Frazer, the widow of Emmet Manley Frazer, and include meeting notes from June 1992, March 1994, and April 1995.
This series includes annual reports of membership statistics (1982-1987), guest registers (1953-1991), membership register (1849-1997), membership cards, seeker's packets, Richmond meeting directories (1956, 1974-1998), Baltimore Yearly Meeting directories, correspondence of the meeting recorder regarding membership, memorials, and lists of committee members (1957-1958, 1964-1966, 1975-1987), members withdrawn, meeting children, and Midlothian and Williamsburg transfers. The earliest date in the membership register, 1849-1997, represents the birth year of one of the members. Also includes files on the following individual members: Seth Arginteanu and Emmett Shorter. Of interest is files of the Talent Resource Book, compiled by the meeting's 3rd-5th graders and describing the talents and interests of the member of the Richmond Friends Meeting.
These newsletters include schedules of events, business meeting news, committee news, budget information, announcements, and member notes.
This series includes material relating to the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization established in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to help civilian war victims. Consists of 50th anniversary publications, 1963 and 2002 annual reports, information on the Algerian relief program, Life Over Debt Campaign, and recovery kits for Kosovo refugees, and a copy of the Winter 2004 edition of Quaker Action, a publication of the American Friends Service Committee.
Consists of correspondence, brochures, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, publications, and resource packets relating to efforts among the peace churches (Friends, Brethren, and Mennonites) to stop paying taxes that support war and establish a World Peace Tax Fund. Includes files on National Council for World Peace Tax Fund, Peace Tax Fund legislation, the Richmond Peace Education Center.
Includes records of the Virginia Quarterly Meeting, including attendance lists, correspondence, minutes of the Executive Committee, September 1962-October 1968, newsletters, newspaper clippings, programs, and schedules of events. Also includes files concerning the transfer of the Black Creek Monthly Meeting to the Corinth and Somerton Monthly Meetings and the disposition of the property of the Black Creek Monthly Meeting.
This series consists of the agenda and minutes from the 25 October 1997 Representative Meeting. This meeting involved representatives from twenty-six monthly meetings comprising the Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
Includes business meeting minutes, October 1991-June 1999,of the Ashland Indulged Meeting. These minutes contains lists of members present for meetings, announcements, financial reports, and committee reports.
Includes brochures, business meeting minutes, 1989, 1991-1995, membership records, financial reports, reports, newsletters, and spiritual state of the meeting reports, 1990-1995, of the Midlothian Friends Meeting, now a full-fledged meeting.
Includes annual reports of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting (1977-1980, 1984-1985, 1987), Baltimore Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice Manual (1988), elders handbook, invitations to worship, songbooks, and copies of Fellowship (March 1990, April/May 1990), The Friend A Religious and Literary Journal (September 1848-September 1849), Friends Journal (February 1986-July 1990), Friends United Press Pamphlet Series, the Monthly Newsletter from the 57th Street Meeting of Friends (1969-1975), minutes, proceedings and yearbooks of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting (1929-2002), proceedings of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends at Park Avenue (1930), proceedings of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends at Stony Run (1959-1966), and proceedings of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (1958). Also includes miscellaneous newsletters such as the Dharma Wheel , Friends for Lesbian and Gay Concerns , Information Express , Right Sharing of World Resources , and TeenQuake , and miscellaneous pamphlets and brochures relating to conferences, workshops, and spirituality and worship. THIS SERIES IS NOT AVAILABLE ON MICROFILM.