Hanover Friends Meeting
Hanover Friends Meeting Records
1974-2021
MS 902 H366
3 boxes
1.5 linear feet
Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries
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.
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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.
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.
The collection is open for research.
Cite as: Hanover Friends Meeting Records (MS 902 h366). 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.
Additional record for the meeting are located at the Hanover Meeting, including:
Records at Hanover Friends Meeting
- Minutes, 1959-1970
- Minutes, 1970-1979
- Minutes ,1980-1989
- Membership, 1956-1969
- Membership, 1970-1979
- Ministry and counsel, 1960-1969
- Ministry and counsel, 1970-1979
- Ministry and counsel, 1980-1989
- Trustees records, 1965-1969
- Newsletters, 1970-1979
- Newsletters, 1980-1989
Current contact for the meeting
Hanover Friends Meeting website (accessed Nov. 2018).
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Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, October 2018.
New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
Quakers--New Hampshire
Society of Friends--New Hampshire
Hanover (N.H.)--Religious life and customs
Minutes (Administrative records)
Newsletters
Minutes
1988-2020
13Hanover Monthly: Minutes1988-1989
14Hanover Monthly: Minutes1990-1991
15Hanover Monthly: Minutes1992-1994
16Hanover Monthly: Minutes1995-1997
17Hanover Monthly: Minutes1998
18Hanover Monthly: Minutes1999
19Hanover Monthly: Minutes (lacking Jan., Feb., Apr., May, and Oct., 20002000-2001
110Hanover Monthly: Minutes2009-2011
Hanover Monthly: Minutes, Ministry and Counsel
2020
digital files
Correspondence and reports
1981-2021
12Hanover Monthly: Committee minutes (mixed)1992 Mar.-Nov.
11Hanover Monthly: Meeting history1981-1986
111Hanover Monthly: State of society reports (lacking 1988, 1995, and 1999)1987/2000
Hanover Monthly: annual statistics for NEYM
2021
digital files
Newsletters and publications
1974-2021
21Hanover Monthly: Newsletters1974-1977
22Hanover Monthly: Newsletters1978-1982
23Hanover Monthly: Newsletters1983-1987
24Hanover Monthly: Newsletters1988-1990
25Hanover Monthly: Newsletters1991-1993
26Hanover Monthly: Newsletters1994-1996
27Hanover Monthly: Newsletters1997-2000
31Hanover Monthly: Newsletters2001-2002
32Hanover Monthly: Newsletters2003-2004
33Hanover Monthly: Newsletters (lacking March 2006)2005-2006
34Hanover Monthly: Newsletters2007-2009
35Hanover Monthly: Newsletters (lacking Jan, June, Dec. 2009)2010
Hanover Monthly: Newsletters
2020
digital files
Hanover Monthly: Newsletters
2021
digital files