Belfast Area Friends Meeting Records
The Belfast (Maine) Area Friends Meeting began as an independent worship group under the care of Vassalboro Quarterly Meeting in 1982. Two years after being set off as a monthly meeting in 1988, it changed its name slightly to the current Belfast Area Friends Meeting.
The Belfast Area Friends Meetings includes state of the society reports, meeting minutes, an address listing of members, and other miscellaneous records.
Background on Allen’s Neck Monthly Meeting of Friends
Desiring a more convenient place of worship in 1758, Quakers in Allen’s Neck, Mass., built a meetinghouse on a hill overlooking Buzzards Bay, six miles from the Apponegansett Meeting House of their parent meeting, Dartmouth Monthly. A relatively small worship group, the meeting was designated the West Preparative Meeting under Dartmouth in 1813, but after experiencing modest growth during the mid-twentieth century, they were formally set off as a monthly meeting in 1956.
Part of Salem Quarterly Meeting since becoming a formal monthly, Allen’s Neck for business each month with Smith Neck Meeting at Apponegansett.
Scope of collection
The Belfast Area Friends Meetings includes state of the society reports, meeting minutes, an address listing of members, and other miscellaneous records.
Inventory
Administrative information
Access
The collection is open for research.
Provenance
Gift of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends Records, March 2016.
Related Material
This collection is part of the New England Yearly Meeting Records.
Current contact for the meeting
Allen’s Neck facebook page (accessed Nov. 2018).
Processing Information
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, October 2018.
Language:
English
Copyright and Use (More information )
Cite as: Allen’s Neck Monthly Meeting of Friends Records (MS 902 a454). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Search terms
Subjects
- Dartmouth (Mass.)–History
- Quakers–Massachusetts
- Society of Friends–Massachusetts
Names
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
Genre terms
- Newsletters