Background on Sidney Monthly Meeting
Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930.
Photo by Alton H. Blackington
Quaker meeting for worship began in Sidney, Maine, in 1795, under the care of Vassalboro Monthly Meeting and advanced to preparative meeting status in 1800, before finally being set off as a monthly meeting in 1802. One of a number of meetings established in the Kennebec River Valley in the decades after the American Revolution, Sidney became the parent of worship groups in several nearby towns at the turn of the nineteenth century, the most successful of which was the one in Fairfield, which was set off from Sidney as a monthly meeting in 1911. Sidney was laid down to Winthrop Monthly Meeting in 1932.
Sidney Monthly: constituent meetings
- Athens Preparative (before 1805-ca.1824)
- Athens Worship Group (ca.1824-ca.1833)
- Belgrade Worship Group (1802-1864, 1876-1879)
- Capstown Worship Group (1803)
- Fairfield Preparative (1802-1901)
- Fairfield Worship Group (1901-1907)
- Oakland Worship Group (1907-1932)
- Sidney Preparative (1802-1901)
- Tingtown Worship Group (1804)
- Winthrop Preparative (1802-1808)
