After meeting as a worship group for thirty years in Fort Fairfield in the northern reaches of Maine, Maple Grove Monthly Meeting of Friends was set off Unity Monthly Meeting in 1890. It was a part of Vassalboro Quarterly Meeting until it was laid down in 1962 to Vassalboro Monthly.
The single volume of surviving records from Maple Grove contain a nearly complete run of minutes for the duration of the monthly meeting, lacking only the last seven years.
Background on Maple Grove Monthly Meeting of Friends
Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930. Photo by Alton H. Blackington
After meeting as a worship group for thirty years in Fort Fairfield in the northern reaches of Maine, Maple Grove Monthly Meeting of Friends was set off Unity Monthly Meeting in 1890. It was a part of Vassalboro Quarterly Meeting until it was laid down in 1962 to Vassalboro Monthly.
Scope of collection
The single volume of surviving records from Maple Grove contain a nearly complete run of minutes for the duration of the monthly meeting, lacking only the last seven years.
Inventory
Minutes
1890-1955
Maple Grove Monthly: Minutes
1890-1955
Bound vol.
09:B3
Administrative information
Access
The collection is open for research.
Provenance
Gift of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends Records, March 2016.
Cite as: Maple Grove Monthly Meeting of Friends Records (MS 902 M375). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Search terms
Subjects
Fort Fairfield (Me.)--Religious life and customs
New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
Quakers--Maine
Society of Friends--Maine
Contributors
Maple Grove Monthly Meeting of Friends [main entry]