Desiring a more convenient place of worship in 1758, Quakers in Allen's Neck, Mass., built a meetinghouse on a hill overlooking Buzzards Bay, six miles from the Apponegansett Meeting House of their parent meeting, Dartmouth Monthly. A relatively small worship group, the meeting was designated the West Preparative Meeting under Dartmouth in 1813, but after experiencing modest growth during the mid-twentieth century, they were formally set off as a monthly meeting in 1956.
The sparse records for Allen's Neck Monthly Meeting consist of a broken run of newsletters with three annual directories and a brief run of State of the Society reports, all from the 1990s.
Background on Allen's Neck Monthly Meeting of Friends
Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930. Photo by Alton H. Blackington
Desiring a more convenient place of worship in 1758, Quakers in Allen's Neck, Mass., built a meetinghouse on a hill overlooking Buzzards Bay, six miles from the Apponegansett Meeting House of their parent meeting, Dartmouth Monthly. A relatively small worship group, the meeting was designated the West Preparative Meeting under Dartmouth in 1813, but after experiencing modest growth during the mid-twentieth century, they were formally set off as a monthly meeting in 1956.
Part of Salem Quarterly Meeting since becoming a formal monthly, Allen's Neck for business each month with Smith Neck Meeting at Apponegansett.
Scope of collection
The sparse records for Allen's Neck Monthly Meeting consist of a broken run of newsletters with three annual directories and a brief run of State of the Society reports, all from the 1990s.
Inventory
Correspondence and reports
1990-1994
11:A5
Nominating Committee report
1993
Box 1: 1
State of the Society reports
1990-1994
Box 1: 2
Newsletters and publications
1990-2010
11:A5
Directories
1991, 1995, 1996
Box 1: 3
Newsletters
1965-1966
Box 1: 4
Newsletters
1982-1984, 1988
Box 1: 5
Newsletters
1989-1991
Box 1: 6
Newsletters
1992-1997
Box 1: 7
Newsletters
1998-2001
Box 1: 8
Newsletters
2002-2006 Oct.
Box 1: 9
Newsletters
2007 Feb.-2010 Nov.
Box 1: 10
Administrative information
Access
The collection is open for research.
Provenance
Gift of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends Records, March 2016.
Cite as: Allen's Neck Monthly Meeting of Friends Records (MS 902 a454). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
