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.
Although not quite complete, the records of Middletown Monthly Meeting document nearly 25 years of a Quaker meeting in the lower Connecticut Valley, beginning in the mid-1980s.
Background on Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends
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
Although not quite complete, the records of Middletown Monthly Meeting document nearly 25 years of a Quaker meeting in the lower Connecticut Valley, beginning in the mid-1980s.
Inventory
Minutes
1983-2007
11:C5
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
Miscellaneous
1987-2001
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
Administrative information
Access
The collection is open for research.
Provenance
Gift of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends Records, March 2016.
Cite as: Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends Records (MS 902 M5337). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.