Background on Richmond Monthly Meeting
Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930.
Photo by Alton H.
Blackington
Meetings for Quaker worship began in Richmond, N.H., as early as 1766. Situated in a small town on the border of Massachusetts, the new meeting was initially placed under the care of Smithfield Monthly meeting, transferring to Uxbridge Monthly in 1783. Having achieved a degree of stability, the meeting was set off as the Richmond Monthly Meeting in 1792 as part of Rhode Island Quarterly Meeting, although they were transferred to Smithfield Quarterly in 1801. Richmond was parent to a worship group in Pelham, Mass., from 1808 to 1813 and 1831 to about 1833. Pelham was a Preparative Meeting from 1821-1821.
With a decline in membership, Richmond Monthly was laid down in 1850; its remaining members were attached to Uxbridge Monthly Meeting.
