Bennington Monthly Meeting of Friends
Bennington Monthly Meeting of Friends Records
1958-2004
MS 902 B466
4 boxes
1.5 linear feet
Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries
Beginning as an independent worship group in Arlington, Vermont, in 1949, the Bennington Monthly Meeting settled in Bennington in about 1959. It has been affiliated with the Northwest Quarterly Meeting in 1962, and two monthly meetings have been set off from it since: Putney (1969) and Wilderness (1978). Bennington has also cared for worship groups in Pawlet (1988-1989), Putney (1964-1968), and Williamstown, Mass. (1989-1992), as well as the Wilderness Preparative Meeting in Plymouth, Vt. (1977-1978).
Although lacking the earliest years of the meeting minutes, the records of the Bennington Friends Meeting contain consistent coverage between 1970 and 2004, along with a handful of state of the society reports and a disbound scrapbook that includes some details on the early years.
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Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930.
Photo by Alton H. Blackington
Beginning as an independent worship group in Arlington, Vermont, in 1949, the Bennington Monthly Meeting settled in Bennington in about 1959. It has been affiliated with the Northwest Quarterly Meeting in 1962, and two monthly meetings have been set off from it since: Putney (1969) and Wilderness (1978). Bennington has also cared for worship groups in Pawlet (1988-1989), Putney (1964-1968), and Williamstown, Mass. (1989-1992), as well as the Wilderness Preparative Meeting in Plymouth, Vt. (1977-1978).
Although lacking the earliest years of the meeting minutes, the records of the Bennington Friends Meeting contain consistent coverage between 1970 and 2004, along with a handful of state of the society reports and a disbound scrapbook that includes some details on the early years.
The collection is open for research.
Cite as: Bennington Monthly Meeting of Friends Records (MS 902 b466). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Gift of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends Records, March 2016.
This collection is part of the New England Yearly Meeting Records.
Current contact for the meeting
Bennington Friends Website (accessed Nov. 2018).
Quakers
Religion
Vermont
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, October 2018.
New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
Quakers--Vermont
Society of Friends--Vermont
Bennington (Vt.)--Religious life and customs
Minutes (Administrative records)
Newsletters
11:A6
Minutes
1970-2004
11Bennington Monthly: Minutes1970 Aug.-Dec.
12Bennington Monthly: Minutes1971
13Bennington Monthly: Minutes1972
14Bennington Monthly: Minutes1973
15Bennington Monthly: Minutes (lacking July)1974
16Bennington Monthly: Minutes (lacking June)1975
17Bennington Monthly: Minutes (no meeting in April, May lacking)1976
18Bennington Monthly: Minutes1977
19Bennington Monthly: Minutes (no meeting in Jan. 1978)1978-1979
110Bennington Monthly: Minutes1980-1982
111Bennington Monthly: Minutes (lacking July)1983
21Bennington Monthly: Minutes1983
112Bennington Monthly: Minutes1984
22Bennington Monthly: Minutes1986
23Bennington Monthly: Minutes1987-1989
24Bennington Monthly: Minutes1990
25Bennington Monthly: Minutes1991
26Bennington Monthly: Minutes1992
27Bennington Monthly: Minutes1993
21Bennington Monthly: Minutes1994
29Bennington Monthly: Minutes1995 Jan.-June
210Bennington Monthly: Minutes1995 July-1996
211Bennington Monthly: Minutes1997-1998
212Bennington Monthly: Minutes1999-2000
213Bennington Monthly: Minutes2001-2002
214Bennington Monthly: Minutes2003
215Bennington Monthly: Minutes2004 Jan.-July
Correspondence and reports
1990-2000
216Bennington Monthly: State of the Society reports1990-2000
Newsletters and publications
1992-2002
411:G3Bennington Monthly: Newsletters1992-2002Box: 0.5 lin. ft.
Miscellaneous
1958-1985
311:A6Bennington Monthly: Scrapbook1958-19853 folders