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<titleproper encodinganalog="245$a">Quaker City Unity Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) Records</titleproper>
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<author encodinganalog="245$c">Finding aid prepared by I. Eliot Wentworth.</author>
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<abstract encodinganalog="520$a">Situated in a rural area halfway between White River Junction and the Massachusetts border, the Quaker City Unity Monthly meeting gathered initially in Friends' homes beginning as early as 1813. Recognized as a preparative meeting in 1822, the meeting was laid down only a few years later in 1855. Regular meetings for worship were revived in Unity in 1984, using the historic meetinghouse, and Quaker City Unity was set off as a formal monthly meeting in 1993.<lb />The records of Quaker City Unity Monthly Meeting consist of minutes of business meetings beginning 1990, with a set of photocopies of earlier records drawn from the minutes of Weare Monthly Meeting.</abstract>
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<dao href="http://credo.library.umass.edu/images/resize/400/muph061-sl461-i001-001.jpg"><daodesc><p>Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930.<lb />Photo by Alton H. Blackington</p></daodesc></dao>

<p>Meetings for Quaker worship began in Unity, N.H., in 1813 under care of Weare Monthly Meeting. Situated in a rural area halfway between White River Junction and the Massachusetts border, the meeting gathered initially in Friends' homes, drawing from the adjacent town of Acworth as well, until members constructed a meetinghouse in 1820 after Amos Johnson donated a small parcel of land for the purpose. Unity was recognized as a preparative meeting in 1822, but was laid down only a few years later in 1855.</p>

<p>During the latter years of the nineteenth century, Quaker meetings were held at Unity only once per summer, if at all. After a period of dormancy, the annual practice was revived in 1978, with regular meetings for worship beginning in 1984 under the informal care of Weare Monthly Meeting. This nascent meeting came under the formal care of Putney Monthly Meeting in 1990, and was set off as Quaker City Unity Monthly Meeting in 1993. Quaker City Unity is a member of Northwest Quarterly Meeting.</p>

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<p>The records of Quaker City Unity Monthly Meeting consist of minutes of business meetings beginning 1990, with a set of photocopies of earlier records drawn from the minutes of Weare Monthly Meeting.</p>
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<p><emph render="italic">Cite as</emph>: Quaker City Unity Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) Records (MS 902 Q354). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.</p>
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<p>Gift of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends Records, March 2016.</p>
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<p>This collection is part of the <extref href="http://findingaids.library.umass.edu/ead/mums902">New England Yearly Meeting Records</extref>.</p>
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<archref>Quakers</archref>
<archref>Religion</archref>
<archref>New Hampshire</archref>
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<c02 level="file"><did><container type="box">1</container><container type="folder">3</container><unittitle>Quaker City Unity Monthly: Minutes</unittitle><unitdate type="inclusive" normal="2000/2003">2000-2003</unitdate></did></c02>

<c02 level="file"><did><container type="box">1</container><container type="folder">4</container><unittitle>Quaker City Unity Monthly: Minutes</unittitle><unitdate type="inclusive" normal="2004/2005">2004-2005</unitdate></did></c02>

<c02 level="file"><did><container type="box">1</container><container type="folder">5</container><unittitle>Quaker City Unity Monthly: Minutes</unittitle><unitdate type="inclusive" normal="2006/2007">2006-2007</unitdate></did></c02>

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<c02 level="file"><did><container type="box">1</container><container type="folder">7</container><unittitle>Weare Monthly Meeting: Extracts from Minutes re: Quaker City Unity Meeting (photocopies ca.1989)</unittitle><unitdate type="inclusive" normal="1813/1989">1813-1989</unitdate></did></c02>

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