Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends Records

1955-2023
1 box (0.5 linear feet)
Call no.: MS 902 M5337
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Friends in Middletown, Connecticut, began holding meetings under the care of Hartford Monthly Meeting by 1943 and were set off as a monthly meeting of their own in 1956. Drawing heavily from the faculty and staff at Wesleyan College, at least in their early years, the meeting is part of Connecticut Valley Quarter.



The records of Middletown Monthly Meeting document more than sixty years of a Quaker meeting in the lower Connecticut Valley beginning in the mid-1950s.

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Background on Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends


An image of: Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930.Photo by Alton H. Blackington

Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930.

Photo by Alton H. Blackington

Friends in Middletown, Connecticut, began holding meetings under the care of Hartford Monthly Meeting by 1943 and were set off as a monthly meeting of their own in 1956. Drawing heavily from the faculty and staff at Wesleyan College, at least in their early years, the meeting is part of Connecticut Valley Quarter.

Scope of collection

The records of Middletown Monthly Meeting document more than sixty years of a Quaker meeting in the lower Connecticut Valley beginning in the mid-1950s.

Inventory

Minutes
1955-2014
11:C5
Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1955
Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1967-1968
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1968-1969
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1969-1970
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1970-1971
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1971-1972
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1972-1973
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1973-1974
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1974-1975
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1975-1976
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1976-1977
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1977-1978
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1978-1979
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1979-1980
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1980-1981
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1981-1982
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1982-1983
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1983 Sept.-1984 July
Box 1: 1
Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1984 Sept-1986 May
Box 1: 2
Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1986 Sept.-1988 May
Box 1: 3
Middletown Monthly: Minutes (includes State of Meeting reports, 1987-1989)
1990 Apr.-1991 Nov.
Box 1: 4
Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1992 Sept.-1994 June
Box 1: 5
Middletown Monthly: Minutes
1996 Nov.-2002 Dec.
Box 1: 6
Middletown Monthly: Minutes
2003 Jan.-2007 May
Box 1: 7
Middletown Monthly: Minutes
2007-2014
Middletown Monthly: Minutes
2014
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
2015
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
2016
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
2017
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
2018
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
2019
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
2020
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
2021
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
2022
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Middletown Monthly: Minutes
2023
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Miscellaneous
1955-2001
11:C5
Middletown Monthly: Newsletters
1987 Sept.
Box 1: 8
McAllester, David P.: Early days of Middletown Friends Meeting, 1948-2001
2001
Box 1: 9
Middletown Monthly: State of Meeting reports
1990-1995
Box 1: 10
History of Middletown Meeting by anonymous author
undated
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Letter to Hartford Monthly Meeting
1955

Requesting the establishment of a Monthly Meeting in Middletown

Letter to Eds Manice
1955 June 2

Thanking him for information regarding the creation of a Monthly Meeting

Letter to Cornelius Kruse from. Jeanette Purdy
1955 Nov 22

Affirming Hartford's approval of a Monthly Meeting in Middletown

State of Society report for Middletown Monthly Meeting
1955
State of Society report for Middletown Monthly Meeting
1959-2012
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Membership lists
2011-2023
digital files
Memorial minutes
undated
digital files
Minute Laying Down the Middletown Monthly Meeting
2023 Oct 7
digital files

Administrative information

Access

The collection is open for research.

Provenance

Gift of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends Records, March 2016.

Related Material

This collection is part of the New England Yearly Meeting Records.

Processing Information

Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, November 2018.

Language:

English

Copyright and Use (More information )

Cite as: Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends Records (MS 902 M5337). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.

Search terms

Subjects

  • Middletown (Conn.)--Religious life and customs
  • New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
  • Quakers--Connecticut
  • Society of Friends--Connecticut

Contributors

  • Marion Monthly Meeting [main entry]

Genres and formats

  • Minutes (Administrative records)
  • Newsletters

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