| Organization name | Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Women Friends |
| Date founded | 1672 |
| Org type | Yearly meeting |
| Bio notes | What became Baltimore Yearly Meeting opened in 1672 as the Half Yearly Meeting held at West River and "Tredhaven" (Third Haven). It became Maryland Half-Yearly Meeting in 1763, and began to hold only one annual meeting in 1774. The name "The Yearly Meeting of Friends held in Baltimore Town for the Western Shore of Maryland and Adjacent Areas of Pennsylvania and Virginia" (commonly rendered as "Baltimore Yearly Meeting") was adopted in 1790 when BYM transferred the Eastern Shore Quarterly Meeting of Friends to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and accepted the transfer of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Fairfax and Warrington Quarterly Meeting of Friendss. They accepted the transfer of Nottingham Quarterly Meeting of Friends from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1819. |
| Citations | http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/speccoll/bym/BYMym.xml#series2 |
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