Acadia Friends Meeting Records

1978-2012
3 boxes (3.5 linear feet)
Call no.: MS 902 a233
rotating decorative images from SCUA collections

The Acadia Friends Meeting in Northeast Harbor, Maine, began as an independent worship group in 1975 under the care of Vassalboro Quarterly Meeting. It was accorded status as a monthly meeting in 1978.



This collection consists of meeting minutes, newsletters, directories, committee reports, and news clippings for the Acadia Monthly Meeting.

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Background on Acadia Friends Meeting


An image of: Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930. Photo by Alton H. Blackington

Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930. Photo by Alton H. Blackington

The Acadia Friends Meeting in Northeast Harbor, Maine, began as an independent worship group in 1975 under the care of Vassalboro Quarterly Meeting. It was accorded status as a monthly meeting in 1978.

Scope of collection

This collection consists of meeting minutes, newsletters, directories, committee reports, and news clippings for the Acadia Monthly Meeting.

Inventory

Minutes
1981-2012
11:A5
Acadia Monthly Meeting: Minutes (in binder)
1981 Jan-1994 Apr 17
Box 1 (2025-104)
Acadia Monthly Meeting: Minutes (scattered)
1982 Feb.-1994
Box 1: 1
Acadia Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1994 Aug.-1996 Nov.
Box 1: 2
Acadia Monthly Meeting: Minutes (in binder)
1994 Jan-1998 Dec
Box 1 (2025-104)
Acadia Monthly Meeting: Minutes and newsletters
1998 Feb.-Nov.
Box 1: 3
Acadia Monthly Meeting: Minutes and newsletters (lacking April)
2000 Jan.-Nov.
Box 1: 4
Acadia Monthly Meeting: Minutes (in binder)
2000 Jan-2002 Dec
Box 1 (2025-104)
Acadia Monthly Meeting: Minutes
2001
Box 1: 5
Acadia Monthly Meeting: Minutes (in binder)
2001-2004
Box 1 (2025-104)
Acadia Monthly Meeting: Minutes
2002 Jan.-May
Box 1: 6
Acadia Monthly Meeting: Minutes (in binder)
2002 Jan-2009 Dec
Box 1 (2025-104)
Acadia Monthly Meeting: Minutes and newsletters
2003 Sept.-2006 May
Box 1: 7
Acadia Monthly Meeting: Minutes and newsletters
2007 Jan.-2007 Apr.
Box 1: 8
Acadia Monthly Meeting: Minutes (in binder)
2010 Jan-2012 Nov
Box 1 (2025-104)
Correspondence and reports
1978-2002
11:A5
Beginning years, records
1978, 1982-1985
Box 2 (2025-104)
State of the Society reports (some missing)
1978-1996
Box 1: 9
Spiritual Journeys
1996-1997
Box 2 (2025-104)
Membership
2002
Box 1: 10
Newsletters and publications
1981-2012
11:A5
Newsletters
1981-1983, 1997, 2000
Box 1: 11
Newsletters (in binder)
1981 Jan-1994 Apr 17
Box 1 (2025-104)
Newsletters (in binder)
1994 Jan-1998 Dec
Box 1 (2025-104)
Newsletters (in binder)
2000 Jan-2002 Dec
Box 1 (2025-104)
Newsletters (in binder)
2001-2004
Box 1 (2025-104)
Newsletters (in binder)
2002 Jan-2009 Dec
Box 1 (2025-104)
Newsletters (in binder)
2002 Jan-2009 Dec
Box 1 (2025-104)
Newsletters
2003 Sept.-2006 June
Box 1: 12
Newsletters (in binder)
2010 Jan-2012 Nov
Box 1 (2025-104)

Administrative information

Access

The collection is open for research.

Provenance

Gift of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends Records, March 2016.

Related Material

This collection is part of the New England Yearly Meeting Records.

Current contact for the meeting

Acadia Monthly Meeting website (accessed November 2018).

Processing Information

Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, October 2018.

Language:

English

Copyright and Use (More information )

Cite as: Acadia Friends Meeting Records (MS 902 a233). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.

Search terms

Subjects

  • New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
  • Northeast Harbor (Me.)--Religious life and customs
  • Quakers--Maine
  • Society of Friends--Maine

Contributors

  • Acadia Friends Meeting [main entry]

Genres and formats

  • Minutes (Administrative records)
  • Newsletters

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