Framingham Friends Meeting
Framingham Friends Meeting Records
1963-2023
MS 902 f736
4 boxes
3 linear feet
Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries
Beginning as an informal gathering in the home of Margaret Welch in 1959, Framingham Friends Meeting of the Society of Friends evolved organizationally into a formal worship group under the care of Cambridge Monthly Meeting in 1961 and then a preparatory meeting (1964). It was set off as an independent monthly meeting in 1979.
A newer monthly meeting, Framingham is well documented through a continuous set of meeting minutes from 1983-2018 (with some extending back to 1963) and a long run of newsletters and directories of members. The minutes often include official reports and other documents.
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Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930.
Photo by Alton H. Blackington
Beginning as an informal gathering in the home of Margaret Welch in 1959, Framingham Friends Meeting of the Society of Friends evolved organizationally into a formal worship group under the care of Cambridge Monthly Meeting in 1961 and then a preparatory meeting (1964). It was set off as an independent monthly meeting in 1979.
The meetinghouse in Framingham is the town's former #7 schoolhouse. Originally built in 1839, the building was moved to its present location in 1964. The meeting supports a first day school and other activities.
A newer monthly meeting, Framingham is well documented through a continuous set of meeting
minutes from 1983-2023 (with some extending back to 1963) and a long run of newsletters and directories of members. The minutes often include official reports and other documents.
The collection is open for research.
Cite as: Framingham Friends Meeting Records (MS 902 f736). 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
Framingham Friends Meeting website (accessed Nob. 2018).
Quakers
Religion
Massachusetts (East)
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, November 2018.
New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
Quakers--Massachusetts
Society of Friends--Massachusetts
Framingham (Mass.)--Religious life and customs
Minutes (Administrative records)
Newsletters
Vital records (document genre)
Minutes
1983-2023
1211:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents (lacking Nov. 1984)1983-1984
1311:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents 1985
1411:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents 1986
1511:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents 1987
1611:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents 1988
1711:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents (includes First Day school report)1989
1811:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents (includes Directories for 1989-1990 and 1990-1991)1990-1991
1911:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes, statistics, reports, and budget1991
11011:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents 1992 Jan.-Sept.
11111:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents 1993-1994
11211:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents 1994
11311:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents 1995
11411:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents 1996 Jan.-Nov.
11511:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents 1997
3111:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents 1998-1999
3211:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents 2000
3311:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents 2001
3411:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes and related documents 2002-2003
4511:B6Framingham Monthly: Minutes2004-2018
411:B6Framingham Monthly:
Minutes2018 Sept-2023
Correspondence and reports
1979-2018
1111:B6Framingham Monthly: Membership1979-1981
4311:B6Framingham Monthly: Membership1979-2018
3511:B6Framingham Monthly: State of the Society reports1992-1994
Vital records
1972-2023
3611:B6Framingham Monthly: Directories (lacking 2001/2002)1998-2012
4511:B6Framingham Monthly: Directories2013-2018
411:B6Framingham Monthly:
Directories2019-2023
4211:B6Framingham Monthly: Marriages held at the Meeting or under its care1972-2018
Newsletters and publications
1992-2010
3111:B6Framingham Monthly: Newsletters1982-1986
3211:B6Framingham Monthly: Newsletters1987-1996
3311:B6Framingham Monthly: Newsletters1997-2001
3411:B6Framingham Monthly: Newsletters2002-2004
3511:B6Framingham Monthly: Newsletters2005-2010
Miscellaneous
1979-2022
3711:B6Gardescu, PaulSchool House #7, Framingham (second copy in Box 4)1985
Framingham Friends Meeting: Notice of intent to pave parking lot
1999
4611:B6Framingham Monthly: Monthly calendar and "miscellaneous guidance for record keeping"2010-2018 June
411:B6Framingham Monthly: Monthly
calendar and bulletins2018 Sept-2022 Dec
Framingham Preparative Meeting
1963-1979
4111:B6Framingham Preparative Meeting: Minutes and miscellaneous records1963-1979