Beacon Hill Friends Meeting Records
The Beacon Hill Friends Meeting began in 1958 as a worship group in Boston under the care of Cambridge Monthly Meeting and was set off as its own monthly meeting in 1980. Since that time it has fallen under the aegis of Salem Quarterly Meeting.
Since their establishment as a monthly meeting in 1980, Beacon Hill Friends have regularly maintained minutes of business meetings and published a newsletter, although some gaps persist.
Background on Beacon Hill Friends Meeting
The Beacon Hill Friends Meeting began in 1958 as a worship group in Boston under the care of Cambridge Monthly Meeting and was set off as its own monthly meeting in 1980. Since that time it has fallen under the aegis of Salem Quarterly Meeting.
Since 1957, Beacon Hill Friends Meeting have supported the Beacon Hill Friends House, a cooperative residential community. Each year, around 20 people live in the home organized around Quakerly principles of faith, simplicity, integrity, community, and social responsibility.
Scope of collection
Since their establishment as a monthly meeting in 1980, Beacon Hill Friends have regularly maintained minutes of business meetings and published a newsletter, although some gaps persist.
Inventory
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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
Beacon Hill Friends website (accessed Nov. 2018).
Processing Information
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, October 2018.
Language:
English
Copyright and Use (More information )
Cite as: Beacon Hill Friends Meeting Records (MS 902 b433). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Search terms
Subjects
- Boston (Mass.)–History
- Quakers–Massachusetts
- Society of Friends–Massachusetts
Names
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
Genre terms
- Minutes (Administrative records)
- Newsletters