Berwick Monthly Meeting of Friends (Wilburite) Records
The Friends’ Monthly Meeting at Berwick, Maine, divided during the Wilburite split of 1845, with the smaller Wilburite Meeting organized under the Wilburite Dover Quarterly Meeting (1845-1851) and then under the combined Salem and Dover Quarterly. Berwick was laid down on April 28, 1881, with its last recorded meeting on May 26, 1881. Its members joined Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Wilburite).
Surviving records of this short-lived Wilburite Friends meeting include one volume each of minutes from the Men’s and Women’s meetings.
Background on Berwick Monthly Meeting of Friends (Wilburite)
The Friends’ Monthly Meeting at Berwick, Maine, divided during the Wilburite split of 1845, with the smaller Wilburite Meeting organized under the Wilburite Dover Quarterly Meeting (1845-1851) and then under the combined Salem and Dover Quarterly. Berwick was laid down on April 28, 1881, with its last recorded meeting on May 26, 1881. Its members joined Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Wilburite).
Scope of collection
Surviving records of this short-lived Wilburite Friends meeting include one volume each of minutes from the Men’s and Women’s meetings.
Inventory
Administrative information
Access
The collection is open for research.
Provenance
Acquired as part of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends Records, April 2017.
Related Material
These monthly meeting records are part of the New England Yearly meeting of Friends Records.
See also the records of Berwick Monthly Meeting of Friends, from which this meeting originated, and the records of the Dartmouth Monthly (Wilburite) into which it merged. Both collections are held at UMass Amherst. Statler reported two volumes of men’s minutes for the years 1845-1881, however at the time of transfer to UMass, only one volume (1854-1881) could be located.
Processing Information
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, October 2018.
Language:
English
Copyright and Use (More information )
Cite as: Berwick Monthly Meeting of Friends (Wilburite) Records (MS 902 W55 B479). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Search terms
Subjects
- Berwick (Me.)–Religious life and customs
- Quakers–Maine
- Society of Friends–Maine
Names
- Berwick Monthly Meeting of Friends
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
- South Kingstown Monthly Meeting of Friends (Wilburite: 1845-1945)
Genre terms
- Minutes (Administrative records)