New Bedford began meetings for worship in 1772, and was set off from Dartmouth Monthly Meeting in 1792. This meeting was divided by the split of 1845. Members of the Nantucket Monthly Meeting were received in 1867, and from Pembroke Monthly Meeting in 1876. Mattapoisett Monthly Meeting was set off in 1992.
Records for the New Bedford Monthly Meeting include minutes, correspondence and reports, worship
and ministry, vital records, financial and property, New Bedford Preparative, and Long Plain
Preparative.
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Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930.
Photo by Alton H. Blackington
New Bedford began meetings for worship in 1772, and was set off from Dartmouth Monthly Meeting in 1792. This meeting was divided by the split of 1845. Members of the Nantucket Monthly Meeting were received in 1867, and from Pembroke Monthly Meeting in 1876. Mattapoisett Monthly Meeting was set off in 1992.
Records for the New Bedford Monthly Meeting include minutes, correspondence and reports, worship and ministry, vital records, financial and property, New Bedford Preparative, and Long Plain Preparative.
The Barclay Society began in 1841 as a woman's organization "for reading and sewing for needy people."
Includes: "New Bedford Fifty years ago"; "The Society of Friends"; Program cards; "The horse race," by Alice Tucker and Amelia Gummere
The collection is open for research.
Gift of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends Records, March 2016.
This collection is part of the New England Yearly Meeting Records.
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, October 2018.
Cite as: New Bedford Monthly Meeting of Friends Records (MS 902 N493). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
