North Fairfield Monthly Meeting of Friends Records
1848-2013
3 boxes (3.25 linear feet)
Call no.: MS 902 N435
Quaker worship began in Fairfield, Maine, in 1784, under the care of Falmouth Quarterly Meeting,
resulting in creation of a preparative meeting in 1803 under aegis of Sidney Monthly. Fairfield Monthly Meeting was set off in 1911,
changing its name to North Fairfield in about 1935.
Documentation of North Fairfield
Monthly Meeting includes meeting minutes, financial records, histories of North Fairfield,
correspondence, attendance records, newsletters, meeting calendars, and photographs.
Background on North Fairfield Monthly Meeting of Friends
Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930. Photo by Alton H. Blackington
Quaker worship began in Fairfield, Maine, in 1784, under the care of Falmouth Quarterly Meeting, resulting in creation of a preparative meeting in 1803 under aegis of Sidney Monthly. Fairfield Monthly Meeting was set off in 1911, changing its name to North Fairfield in about 1935. It admitted members of Saint Albans Monthly Meeting, when that meeting was laid down in 1928.
North Fairfield Monthly has been part of Vassalboro Quarter since 1952.
Scope of collection
Documentation of North Fairfield
Monthly Meeting includes meeting minutes, financial records, histories of North Fairfield,
correspondence, attendance records, newsletters, meeting calendars, and photographs.
Inventory
Account book
1911-1942
Box 2
Includes names
Account book
1980-1983
Box 2
Includes names
Account book
1987-1989
Box 2
Includes names
Account book
1989-1991
Box 2
Includes names
Attendance, annotated
1961-1974
Box 2
Albert Smith, Pastor
Attendance: 1st day Meeting and Bible School
1977-1978
Box 2
With birthday dates
Bowerman, Elihu
1848
Box 2
Copy of letter sent 1848
Building loans, gifts
undated
Box 2
Concern: centrality of Christ
1983-1984
Box 2
Correcspondence: sexuality
1975-1993
Box 2
Correspondence
1980
Box 2
Correspondence
1949-2001
Box 2
Correspondence: archives
undated
Box 2
Debe, Peter: bequest
undated
Box 2
Epistle: Distress in Ireland and London YM
1848, 1878
Box 2
Original (?) printed copies
Financial materials, news
1973-1974
Box 2
Financial reports, annual
1975-1993
Box 2
Treasurer's reports
Geneologies early Quakers
undated
Box 2
Bowerman, Allen, Hoxie, Taylor, Gifford
Greene, Ralph
undated
Box 2
Recording and correspondence
Greene, Ralph
undated
Box 2
Master's thesis on history of Quakers in Central Maine
Guest book
1976-1980
Box 2
Kidder, Lucile
undated
Box 2
Kidder, Mattie
1933
Box 2
Letters
Letters of membership
undated
Box 2
Luder, Grace
undated
Box 2
Correspondence on temperance
Membership book
1884-1985
Box 3
Five Years Mtg published record book; some loose notes and obituaries
Membership lists
undated
Box 2
Memorial minutes
undated
Box 2
Ministry
undated
Box 2
Various writings and correspondence
Ministry and Counsel: minutes
1962-1968
Box 2
Minute books
1911-1962
Box 3
Minute books
1963-1981
Box 2
Minutes
1995-1997
Box 2
Sparse minutes
Minutes
2001-2005
Box 2
With gaps
Minutes, correspondence, financials
1981-1994
Box 2
Minutes, extracts
1979-1994
Box 1
Minutes, financials
2006-2013
Box 2
Minutes, tax bills
1825, 1836
Box 2
Sidney MM (North Farifield was a Preparative mtg)
Newsletters
1987-1993
Box 1
Includes a letter concerning unity of New England Yearly meeting and same sex marriage, 1987; Minute on the recording of ministers, 1993; Minute approving same sex marriage, 1993
North Fairfield history
undated
Box 2
Letters, clippings, unsigned notes on history
North Fairfield History of Meeting by Leona Stevens (?)
Cite as: North Fairfield Monthly Meeting of Friends Records (MS 902 N435). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
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Subjects
New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
North Fairfield (Me.)--Religious life and customs
Quakers--Maine
Society of Friends--Maine
Contributors
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