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Mx Extractions from the James E. Hazard Index

Mx Extractions from the James E. Hazard Index to the
Records of New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends/hazard/
Accessed by US294 George Mollineaux on 12 June 2008
Permission granted to post on IMFA website by Christopher Densmore, Curator
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19901
14 August 2008

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Horsman #1 and family is separated from Horsman #2 and family by IMFA member George Mollineaux,
both tables listed in Year order – typed by Marie Mx Spearman
Always consult the source to verify accuracy.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations

Abbreviations:
ack = acknowledged, acknowledgement
b = born
cert = certificate “A statement issued by a monthly meeting to a person (or persons) transferring their membership to another monthly
meeting.  Also a marriage certificate.”
d = died
dis = disowned, disowned for “Such are to be treated with, as are guilty of lying, drunkenness, swearing, cursing; together with every
other immoral or scandalous practice: and when persons are guilty in these respects, or any of them, after being treated with by the overseers or other concerned Friends, if they be brought to a sense of the iniquity thereof, such offenders are without improper delay, to remove the candal, and clear, as much as possible, our holy profession therefrom, by acknowledging and condemning the offense, in writing, under their hands, to the satisfaction of the Monthly Meetings, to which they belong.  And if any such offenders refuse so to acknowledge and condemn their faults, the said meetings ought speedily to testify against them.” – Discipline (1819)
gc and gct = granted certificate to   “All members removing beyond the limits of their Monthly Meetings … are to apply to their respective meetings for certificates [of memberships] directed to [the monthly meeting] within the limits of which they propose to sojourn or settle.  But if any shall remove without so applying, the Monthly Meeting of which they are members, after making the usual inquiry, and finding no obstruction, without improper delay, send certificates to them … but if their previous conduct require that they be treated with, and the distance be such as to render it inconvenient for the meetings they removed from, the Monthly Meetings, within the verge of which they are, should be requested to treat with them, and report the effect of their care: on which, if it prove satisfactory, certificates of removal may be directed; but if otherwise …” – Discipline (1819)
m = marry, married, marrying, marriage
mbr = member
mcd = married contrary to discipline  “Both parties were members of the Society of Friends and were married by a civil ceremony or by a member of another denomination (i.e. ‘by a priest.)”
MM = monthly meeting
mos = married out of society [see mou]
mou = married out of unity   “One of the parties was not a  member of the Society of Friends, or was a member of another branch of  Friends.”
PM = preparative meeting
QM = quarterly meeting
rmt = reported married to
rocf = received on certificate from   “A certificate of membership was received from another monthly meeting.”
s = son, sons
w = wife