Burlington Monthly Meeting of Friends
Burlington Monthly Meeting of Friends Records
1959-2010
MS 902 b875
2 boxes
0.75 linear feet
Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries
Friends in Burlington, Vermont, began gathering as an informal, unaffiliated worship group in 1951, joining the New England Yearly Meeting five years later as part of the Upper Connecticut River Valley Monthly Meeting. With the continued growth of Quakerism in the state, the meeting was divided in two with Burlington and Hanover becoming monthly meetings in 1959, jointly comprising the new Northwest Quarterly Meeting.
The somewhat spotty records of the Burlington Monthly Meeting include minutes for two brief spans of time in the early 1980s and early 1990s, leavened by a fairly complete run of newsletters from 1969 through 2010.
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Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930.
Photo by Alton H. Blackington
Friends in Burlington, Vermont, began gathering as an informal, unaffiliated worship group in 1951, joining the New England Yearly Meeting five years later as part of the Upper Connecticut River Valley Monthly Meeting. With the continued growth of Quakerism in the state, the meeting was divided in two with Burlington and Hanover becoming monthly meetings in 1959, jointly comprising the new Northwest Quarterly Meeting.
During their relatively brief history, Friends in Burlington have provided care for worship groups at Barton-Glover (1991), Middlebury (1959-1962 and 1970), Plainfield (1959-1964) and Shelburne (1994-present), and preparative meetings at Barton-Glover (1991) and Middlebury (1971-1976). Three of these have subsequently been set off from Burlington as monthly meetingss: Plainfield (1965), Middlebury (1976), and Baron-Glover (1992).
The somewhat spotty records of the Burlington Monthly Meeting include minutes for two brief spans of time in the early 1980s and early 1990s, leavened by a fairly complete run of newsletters from 1969 through 2010.
The collection is open for research.
Cite as: Burlington Monthly Meeting of Friends Records (MS 902 b875). 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
Burlington Monthly Meeting 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
Burlington (Vt.)--Religious life and customs
Minutes (Administrative records)
Newsletters
Minutes
1982-1994
23Burlington Monthly: Minutes1982-1985
24Burlington Monthly: Minutes1993-1994
Correspondence and reports
1959-2004
2111:A7Burlington Monthly: Pastoral Care Committee1998 Sept.-2000 Jan.
2211:A7Burlington Monthly: State of the Society reports (and directory)1987, 1993
23Burlington Monthly: State of the Society reports1959, 1960, 2004
Newsletters and publications
1969-2010
1111:A6Burlington Monthly: Newsletters1969-1985
1211:A6Burlington Monthly: Newsletters1986-1988
1311:A6Burlington Monthly: Newsletters1989-1998
1411:A6Burlington Monthly: Newsletters1999-2002
1111:A6Burlington Monthly: Newsletters2002-2010