Hanover Friends Meeting Records
After operating as an independent worship ground for five years under the care of Upper Connecticut Valley Monthly Meeting, a group of Friends, most associate with Dartmouth College, were set off in 1959 as a formal monthly meeting. Hanover Friends Meeting has been part of Northwest Corner since its inception.
Although lacking documentation for the early years, the records of Hanover Friends Meeting include a continuous run of meeting minutes beginning in the late 1980s and newsletters from 1974 on. Additional records have been retained at the meetinghouse.
Background on Hanover Friends Meeting
After operating as an independent worship ground for five years under the care of Upper Connecticut Valley Monthly Meeting, a group of Friends, most associate with Dartmouth College, were set off in 1959 as a formal monthly meeting. Hanover Friends Meeting has been part of Northwest Corner since its inception.
During their early years, the meeting met in members’ homes, but a bequest in 1965 enable them to acquire property on Rope Ferry Road for a meetinghouse. When they outgrew this space in the 1980s, they relocated to Lebanon Street, renovating the space further in the early 2000s.
Scope of collection
Although lacking documentation for the early years, the records of Hanover Friends Meeting include a continuous run of meeting minutes beginning in the late 1980s and newsletters from 1974 on.
As of 1997, when Rick Statler compiled the previous guide to the New England Yearly Meeting Records, other records from Hanover Friends Meeting were housed at the meetinghouse. These included some duplicates of materials in SCUA, but also records from the meeting’s early years.
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.
Additional record for the meeting are located at the Hanover Meeting, including:
- Minutes, 1959-1970
- Minutes, 1970-1979
- Minutes ,1980-1989
- Membership, 1956-1969
- Membership, 1970-1979
- Ministry and counsel, 1960-1969
- Ministry and counsel, 1970-1979
- Ministry and counsel, 1980-1989
- Trustees records, 1965-1969
- Newsletters, 1970-1979
- Newsletters, 1980-1989
Current contact for the meeting
Hanover Friends Meeting website (accessed Nov. 2018).
Processing Information
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, October 2018.
Language:
English
Copyright and Use (More information )
Cite as: Hanover Friends Meeting Records (MS 902 h366). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Search terms
Subjects
- Hanover (N.H.)–Religious life and customs
- Quakers–New Hampshire
- Society of Friends–New Hampshire
Names
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
Genre terms
- Minutes (Administrative records)
- Newsletters