Marion Monthly Meeting
Monadnock Quaker Meeting Records
1957-2012
MS 902 M663
1 vol., 3 boxes
1.25 linear feet
Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries
In 1957, a group of Quakers in Rindge, New Hampshire, established an independent worship group affiliated with the Connecticut Valley Quarter which became the Monadnock Quaker Meeting in the following year. From 1957 to 2011, members of the meeting supported the Meeting School in Rindge, a co-educational boarding school run on Quaker principles.
The records of Monadnock Quaker meeting offer a perspective on the growth of the Society of Friends in southern New Hampshire over more than half a century. As kept by the meeting clerks, the records for the early 1980s include a jumble of newsletters, notes, drafts, and minutes of meetings which appear to be nearly complete.
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Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930.
Photo by Alton H. Blackington
In 1957, a group of Quakers in Rindge, New Hampshire, established an independent worship group affiliated with the Connecticut Valley Quarter which became the Monadnock Quaker Meeting in the following year. From 1957 to 2011, members of the meeting supported the Meeting School in Rindge, a co-educational boarding school run on Quaker principles.
Care of Monadnock Meeting was transferred from Connecticut Valley to Northwest Quarter in 1973. The meeting has in turn supported worship groups in Keene (1978-1980), Nelson (1987-?), and Wilton, N.H. (1987, now Souhegan Preparative Meeting). The meeting currently meets in Jaffrey, N.H.
The records of Monadnock Quaker meeting offer a perspective on the growth of the Society of Friends in southern New Hampshire over more than half a century. As kept by the meeting clerks, the records for the early 1980s include a jumble of newsletters, notes, drafts, and minutes of meetings which appear to be nearly complete. The collection also includes a couple of issues of the newsletter from the Meeting School.
The collection is open for research.
Cite as: Monadnock Quaker Meeting Records (MS 902 M663). 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.
Current contact for the meeting
Monadnock Quaker Meeting website (accessed Nov. 2018).
Quakers
Religion
New Hampshire
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, November 2018.
New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
Meeting School (Rindge, N.H.)
Quakers--New Hampshire
Boarding schools--New Hampshire
Society of Friends--New Hampshire
Jaffrey (N.H.)--Religious life and customs
Minutes (Administrative records)
Newsletters
Minutes
1957-2012
09:B3Monadnock Quaker Meeting: Minutes1957 Aug. 18-1978 July 16Bound vol.
11Monadnock Quaker Meeting: Minutes1978 Aug.-1988
12Monadnock Quaker Meeting: Minutes1989-1995
13Monadnock Quaker Meeting: Minutes1996-2001
14Monadnock Quaker Meeting: Minutes2002-2004 Apr.
31Monadnock Quaker Meeting: Minutes2004-2012
Correspondence and reports
1989-1998
15Monadnock Quaker Meeting: rough notes on 19981998Closed until 2028
37Monadnock Quaker Meeting: traveling minutes for Virginia Towle to visit Kenya1989 July
39Meeting School newsletter1961-1991
38Meeting School newsletter1987-1988
Newsletters and publications
1983-2010
21Monadnock Quaker Meeting: Newsletters, minutes, and miscellaneous (sporadic)1983-1984
22Monadnock Quaker Meeting: Newsletters, minutes, and miscellaneous1985-1987
23Monadnock Quaker Meeting: Newsletters, minutes, and miscellaneous 1988-1989
32Monadnock Quaker Meeting: Newsletters1990-1992
33Monadnock Quaker Meeting: Newsletters1993-1995
34Monadnock Quaker Meeting: Newsletters1996-2003
35Monadnock Quaker Meeting: Newsletters (lacking Nov. and Dec. 2006; Oct. 2007)2006-2009
36Monadnock Quaker Meeting: Newsletters2010