After operating as an independent worship ground for five years under the care of Upper Connecticut Valley Monthly Meeting, a group of Friends, most associate with Dartmouth College, were set off in 1959 as a formal monthly meeting. Hanover Friends Meeting has been part of Northwest Corner since its inception.
Although lacking documentation for the early years, the records of Hanover Friends Meeting include a continuous run of meeting minutes beginning in the late 1980s and newsletters from 1974 on. Additional records have been retained at the meetinghouse.
Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930. Photo by Alton H. Blackington
After operating as an independent worship ground for five years under the care of Upper Connecticut Valley Monthly Meeting, a group of Friends, most associate with Dartmouth College, were set off in 1959 as a formal monthly meeting. Hanover Friends Meeting has been part of Northwest Corner since its inception.
During their early years, the meeting met in members' homes, but a bequest in 1965 enable them to acquire property on Rope Ferry Road for a meetinghouse. When they outgrew this space in the 1980s, they relocated to Lebanon Street, renovating the space further in the early 2000s.
Scope of collection
Although lacking documentation for the early years, the records of Hanover Friends Meeting include a continuous run of meeting minutes beginning in the late 1980s and newsletters from 1974 on.
As of 1997, when Rick Statler compiled the previous guide to the New England Yearly Meeting Records, other records from Hanover Friends Meeting were housed at the meetinghouse. These included some duplicates of materials in SCUA, but also records from the meeting's early years.
Inventory
Minutes
1988-2020
Hanover Monthly: Minutes
1988-1989
Box 1: 3
Hanover Monthly: Minutes
1990-1991
Box 1: 4
Hanover Monthly: Minutes
1992-1994
Box 1: 5
Hanover Monthly: Minutes
1995-1997
Box 1: 6
Hanover Monthly: Minutes
1998
Box 1: 7
Hanover Monthly: Minutes
1999
Box 1: 8
Hanover Monthly: Minutes (lacking Jan., Feb., Apr., May, and Oct., 2000
2000-2001
Box 1: 9
Hanover Monthly: Minutes
2009-2011
Box 1: 10
Hanover Monthly: Minutes, Ministry and Counsel
2020
digital files
Correspondence and reports
1981-2021
Hanover Monthly: Committee minutes (mixed)
1992 Mar.-Nov.
Box 1: 2
Hanover Monthly: Meeting history
1981-1986
Box 1: 1
Hanover Monthly: State of society reports (lacking 1988, 1995, and 1999)
