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
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]