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    2018 Restoration Plan
    Farmington Meetinghouse
    • Jun 19, 2018
    • 2 min

    2018 Restoration Plan

    The following outlines our Restoration Plan and fundraising goals for the year 2018. Your gift will help us restore this Meetinghouse and...
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    Listen to Their Voices: Farmington and the Underground Railroad
    Judith Wellman
    • Feb 27
    • 29 min

    Listen to Their Voices: Farmington and the Underground Railroad

    Introduction What was the Underground Railroad? Many people think of it as a network of safe houses in the North. That is certainly part...
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    The M'Clintock Family of Farmington
    Judith Wellman
    • Jul 9, 2021
    • 4 min

    The M'Clintock Family of Farmington

    The M’Clintock Family of Farmington Quarterly Meeting: Equality, unity, and reform activism built upon Quaker faith and practice. The...
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    Phebe Hathaway: Meeting the Moment on Temperance, Abolition, and Woman’s Rights
    Mary-Kay Belant
    • Mar 27, 2021
    • 2 min

    Phebe Hathaway: Meeting the Moment on Temperance, Abolition, and Woman’s Rights

    Farmington’s Phebe Hathaway (1819 – 1902) was positioned by time, place, family, and faith to work for the transformational reform...
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    Harriet Jacobs: A Pivotal Time in Upstate New York
    Paula Whitacre
    • Mar 20, 2021
    • 4 min

    Harriet Jacobs: A Pivotal Time in Upstate New York

    (photo used with permission) Harriet Jacobs, born around 1815, in Edenton, North Carolina, spent two years in Rochester, New York. Here,...
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    Julia Wilbur: From a Monroe County Farm to a Fight for Equal Rights
    Paula Whitacre
    • Mar 12, 2021
    • 4 min

    Julia Wilbur: From a Monroe County Farm to a Fight for Equal Rights

    The currents of social reform that circulated in upstate New York in the mid-1800s produced many well-known leaders in abolitionism and...
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    Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Farmington
    Judith Wellman
    • Mar 8, 2021
    • 3 min

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Farmington

    Anybody who knows anything about women’s suffrage knows Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was the catalyst for the first women’s rights...
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    Frederick Douglass & the FQMM
    Florence Cardella
    • Feb 26, 2021
    • 4 min

    Frederick Douglass & the FQMM

    No celebration of Black History Month would be complete without honoring Frederick Douglass, considering his monumental influence on the...
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    Austin Steward's Farmington Friends
    Mary-Kay Belant
    • Feb 19, 2021
    • 3 min

    Austin Steward's Farmington Friends

    Austin Steward: Escaped to freedom, 1815, with help from Darius Comstock, Otis Comstock, and Amy Smith Comstock, Farmington Quakers...
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    Mary and Emily Edmonson: Freedom Sought, Freedom Lost, Freedom Gained
    Mary-Kay Belant
    • Feb 12, 2021
    • 2 min

    Mary and Emily Edmonson: Freedom Sought, Freedom Lost, Freedom Gained

    On April 15, 1848, abolitionists executed a plan to free over 70 people enslaved by families in Washington, D.C. The freedom seekers were...
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    William Wells Brown, Rochester Voices, and Jason Reynolds
    Florence Cardella
    • Feb 5, 2021
    • 6 min

    William Wells Brown, Rochester Voices, and Jason Reynolds

    William Wells Brown (1814-1884) Widely regarded as the first African American novelist, Wells was also and abolitionist lecturer,...
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    2017 Review
    Farmington Meetinghouse
    • Jun 20, 2018
    • 2 min

    2017 Review

    The year was filled with many fine events and important steps forward in the evolution of the 1816 project. Restoration of the building...
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    Farmington Meetinghouse
    • Feb 1, 2018
    • 2 min

    End of Year 2017

    To our friends of the 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse, As our 200th anniversary year draws to a close, we are writing to thank you...
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    Embodying Reconciliation
    Farmington Meetinghouse
    • Feb 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    Embodying Reconciliation

    A presentation by and dialogue with William Wilkinson marking the conclusion of our 200th Anniversary Year Programs Co-Sponsored by The...
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    ABOUT US

    A small Quaker community built a simple meetinghouse in rural western New York - and from that vantage point witnessed (and often led) reform movements that changed democracy in nineteenth century America.

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    230 Sheldon Road

    Farmington, New York 14425

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    P. O. Box 25053
    Farmington, New York 14425

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