Marriage Minutes

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This is the collection of Marriage Minutes, and other minutes which affirm same-sex unions or commitments among Quakers.

The collection is a work in progress. We have incorporated the minutes previously collected by S. Cohen, as well as any other Minutes we have been able to locate. We have incorporated a list generated by Wallace Cayard of Cranberry Twp, PA by surveying Monthly Meetings in the United States in 1997 and 2004, published in Friends Journal (April 2005). His work has nearly doubled our collection. We have chosen to list the Meetings which reported to him having Marriage Minutes even if we do not have copies.

Any Meeting with a link is one for whom we have the Marriage Minute.

1. Acadia (ME)
2. Acton (MA)
3. Adelphi Friends Meeting
4. Albany Monthly Meeting (NY)
5. Albuquerque Monthly Meeting
6. Alexandria Monthly Meeting (VA)
7. Amawalk (NYYM)
8. Ames (Iowa Yearly Meeting)
9. Amesbury Monthly Meeting
10. Ann Arbor (Lake Erie Yearly Meeting)
11. Annapolis (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
12. Argenta Monthly Meeting
13. Athens (Lake Erie Yearly Meeting)
14. Atlanta Monthly Meeting
15. Austin (South Central Yearly Meeting)
16. Australia Yearly Meeting (1984)
17. Baltimore MM (Homewood)
18. Baltimore (Stony Run)
19. Barton-Glover (VT)
20. Beacon Hill Monthly Meeting
21. Bear Creek (Iowa Yearly Meeting, Conservative)
22. Belfast (ME) Monthly Meeting
23. Belfast Area Monthly Meeting
24. Bellingham (North Pacific Yearly Meeting)
25. Beloit (Northern Yearly Meeting)
26. Berkeley (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
27. Bethesda (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
28. Birmingham (Lake Erie Yearly Meeting)
29. Bloomington (Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting)
30. Boise (North Pacific Yearly Meeting)
31. Boone (South Appalachian Yearly Meeting)
32. Boulder (Intermountain Yearly Meeting)
33. Brooklyn Monthly Meeting (1989, 2007)
34. Bloomington Friends Meeting (IN)
35. Buffalo (New York Yearly Meeting)
36. Burlington Monthly Meeting
37. Brunswick (ME)
38. Butternuts Monthly Meeting (Oneonta NY, NYYM) (1993)
39. Cambridge Monthly Meeting
40. Canadian Yearly Meeting
41. Cannon Valley (Northern Yearly Meeting)
42. Celo Monthly Meeting (Burnsville, NC; S Appalachian YM & Assoc, 1993)
43. Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting
44. Chamisa Preparative Meeting
45. Chappaqua (New York Yearly Meeting)
46. Charlottesville (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
47. Chatham-Summit Meeting (NYYM)
48. Chestnut Hill Monthly Meeting (Phila. YM)
49. Chico (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
50. Claremont Friends Meeting
51. Clear Creek (Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting)
52. Cleveland (Lake Erie Yearly Meeting)
53. Cobscook Monthly Meeting
54. Colorado Springs Monthly Meeting
55. Columbia (SC) Monthly Meeting
56. Columbia (MO) Monthly Meeting
57. Concord Friends Meeting (NH)
58. Connecticut Valley Quarterly Meeting
59. Cornwall (New York Yearly Meeting)
60. Corvallis (North Pacific Yearly Meeting)
61. Croton Valley (New York Yearly Meeting)
62. Davis (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
63. Dayton (Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting)
64. Delaware (Lake Erie Yearly Meeting)
65. Des Moines Valley Friends Meeting
66. Detroit Monthly Meeting (Lake Erie YM (FGC)) (1986)
67. Dover Friends Meeting
68. Downers Grove (Illinois Yearly Meeting)
69. Dunnings Creek (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
70. Durham (N.C. Yearly Meeting)
71. Easton Monthly Meeting (NYYM)
72. Eastside (North Pacific Yearly Meeting)
73. Eggemoggin Reach Friends Meeting (ME)
74. Eugene Monthly Meeting (Eugene OR, NPYM) (1987)
75. Evanston (Illinois Yearly Meeting)
76. Fayetteville (N.C. Yearly Meeting)
77. Farmington Friends Meeting
78. Fifteenth Street Monthly Meeting (NYC, NYYM)
79. Floyd (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
80. Fort Collins (Intermountain Yearly Meeting)
81. Fort Lauderdale Friends Meeting (FL)
82. Framingham Monthly Meeting
83. Frankford Monthly Meeting (Phila. YM)
84. Fredrick (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
85. Fresh Pond Monthly Meeting
86. Friends House Preparative Meeting (London YM) (1987)
87. Friends Meeting of Washington DC (Baltimore YM)
88. Friendship (N.C. Yearly Meeting)
89. Germantown Monthly Meeting
90. Gettysburg (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
91. Gila (Intermountain Yearly Meeting)
92. Goose Creek (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
93. Goshen (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting)
94. Grass Valley (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
95. Green Country Friends Meeting (2002)
96. Green Street Monthly Meeting (Phila. YM)
97. Halifax Monthly Meeting (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
98. Hanover Friends Meeting
99. Hartford Monthly Meeting
100. Heartland (North Pacific Yearly Meeting)
101. Herndon (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
102. Honolulu (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
103. Hopewell (Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting)
104. Housatonic (New York Yearly Meeting)
105. Hudson (New York Yearly Meeting)
106. Huntington Meeting
107. Illinois Yearly Meeting
108. Iowa City (Iowa Yearly Meeting, Conservative)
109. Ithaca Monthly Meeting
110. Kennett Square Monthly Meeting (Kennett Sq, PA, Philadelphia YM, 1992)
111. Kickapoo Valley (WI) Monthly Meeting
112. Kitchener Area Monthly Meeting (Canada Yearly Meeting)
113. La Jolla (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
114. Lancaster Monthly Meeting
115. Lansdowne PA Monthly Meeting of Friends (Phila YM)
116. Langley Hill (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
117. Lexington (Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting)
118. Lincoln (Iowa Yearly Meeting, Conservative)
119. Little Falls (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
120. Live Oak (South Central Yearly Meeting)
121. Logan Monthly Meeting (UT)
122. Lynchburg (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
123. Madison Monthly Meeting (Madison, WI) (NYM) (FGC) (1987)
124. Meeting for Sufferings, the Executive branch of London Yearly Meeting (1987)
125. Marin (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
126. Maury River (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
127. Memphis Monthly Meeting (S Appalachian YM & Assoc.)
128. Miami (South East Yearly Meeting)
129. Midcoast Meeting
130. Midlothian (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
131. Middlebury Friends Meeting (VT)
132. Middletown Friends Meeting (CT)
133. Milwaukee Monthly Meeting (Milwaukee, WI) NYM (FGC) (1987)
134. Minneapolis (Northern Yearly Meeting)
135. Monadnock Monthly Meeting
136. Monongalia (Lake Erie Yearly Meeting)
137. Montclair Friends Meeting (Montclair NJ, NYYM) (1991)
138. Monthly Meeting of the Friends of Philadelphia (Phila. YM)
139. Morningside Monthly Meeting (NYC, NYYM) (FUM, FGC)
140. Mount Toby Monthly Meeting
141. Mountain View Friends Meeting
142. Narramissic Valley Meeting (ME)
143. Nashville Friends Meeting (TN)
144. New Bedford Friends Meeting (MA)
145. New Brunswick Monthly Meeting (NJ)
146. New England Yearly Meeting
147. New Haven Monthly Meeting
148. New London Monthly Meeting (NEYM)
149. New Paltz Monthly Meeting
150. Newton (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting)
151. North Columbus (Lake Erie Yearly Meeting)
152. North Shore Monthly Meeting
153. Northampton Friends Meeting
154. North Meadows Circle of Friends (Indianapolis, IN, WYM, FUM; OH YM, FGC) (1987)
155. North Pacific Yearly Meeting
156. Northside Friends Meeting
157. Northwest Quarterly Meeting
158. Nottingham (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
159. Old Chatham (New York Yearly Meeting)
160. Orange County (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
161. Orange Grove (CA) (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
162. Orono Monthly Meeting (ME) (NEYM)
163. Oxford Friends Meeting (OH) (OVYM)
164. Pacific Yearly Meeting
165. Palm Beach
166. Palo Alto (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
167. Paullina (IA) Monthly Meeting
168. Patapsco Friends Meeting (Ellicott City, MD) (BYM)
169. Peconic Bay (New York Yearly Meeting)
170. Penn Valley Meeting (Kansas City, MO) (Iowa YM (Conservative)) (1987)
171. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
172. Pima Monthly Meeting
173. Pine River (Lake Erie Yearly Meeting)
174. Pipe Creek (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
175. Pittsburgh (Lake Erie Yearly Meeting)
176. Pond Town Friends Meeting (ME)
177. Portland Monthly Meeting
178. Princeton (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting)
179. Purchase Monthly Meeting
180. Putney Monthly Meeting
181. Quaker Lake (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
182. Radnor (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting)
183. Reading (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting)
184. Red Cedar Monthly Meeting
185. Redwood Forest (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
186. Reno (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
187. Richmond Monthly Meeting
188. Roanoke (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
189. Rochester Monthly Meeting
190. Sacramento Monthly Meeting
191. Salem Quarterly Meeting
192. Salt Lake Monthly Meeting
193. Sandwich Monthly Meeting (MA)
194. San Antonio (South Central Yearly Meeting)
195. San Diego (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
196. San Francisco (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
197. San Jose (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
198. Sandy Spring (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)
199. Santa Barbara (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
200. Santa Cruz Monthly Meeting (Pacific YM, 1993)
201. Santa Fe Monthly Meeting
202. Santa Monica (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
203. Scarsdale (New York Yearly Meeting)
204. Seaville Monthly Meeting (NJ) (Phila. YM)
205. Smithfield Meeting
206. South Bend Friends Meeting (IN) (IYM)
207. South Berkshire Monthly Meeting
208. South Central Yearly Meeting
209. Southern California Quarterly Meeting (Pacific YM, 1993)
210. St. Louis (Illinois Yearly Meeting)
211. St. Petersburg Monthly Meeting (St.Petersburg, FL; Southeastern YM, FUM/FGC, 1987)
212. Stillwater (South Central Yearly Meeting)
213. Storrs Monthly Meeting
214. Strawberry Creek (Pacific Yearly Meeting)
215. Sweden Yearly Meeting
216. Summit Monthly Meeting (NJ)
217. Tallahassee Monthly Meeting
218. Toronto Monthly Meeting (Canada YM)
219. Transvaal Monthly Meeting, S.Africa (1983)
220. Twin Cities Monthly Meeting (NYM) (1986) (FGC)
221. Unami Monthly Meeting (Pennsburg PA, Phila YM, 1985)
222. University Friends Meeting (WA)
223. Utah Friends Fellowship
224. Vancouver Monthly Meeting
225. Vassalboro Friends Meeting (ME, NEYM)
226. Virginia Beach (N.C. Yearly Meeting)
227. Wellesley Friends Meeting (MA)
228. Westbury Monthly Meeting (NYYM)
229. Westerly Friends Meeting (RI)
230. Westfield Monthly Meeting (Cinnaminson, NJ)
231. Westport (NEYM)
232. Waterboro Monthly Meeting (ME)
233. Williamsburg Monthly Meeting (Balt YM) (1993)
234. Winnipeg Monthly Meeting
235. Winthrop Center Friends Church
236. Wolfville Monthly Meeting
237. Yarmouth Preparative Meeting
238. Yellow Springs Ohio Friends Meeting
239. York (Baltimore Yearly Meeting)

If you have a Marriage Minute or Minute for other Committment Ceremony for Same-Sex couples that isn't on either list please let us know! Best would be an electronic copy, sent to us; next best would be a fax or printed copy; we'll let you know how to send it.

There is a growing collection of gender minutes collected here by NYYM: http://www.nyym.org/nurture/gender/.