Gonic Friends Meeting Records
Quaker worship in Rochester, New Hampshire, began in 1742 under the care of Dover Monthly Meeting, becoming the Pine Grove Worship Group by 1846. After the meetinghouse was moved to the Gonic neighborhood of Rochester in about 1862, the name of the meeting was changed to Gonic. Gonic became a preparative meeting in 1950 and was finally set off from Dover as a monthly meeting in 1981.
The scant records of Gonic Friends Meeting consist solely of newsletters: one run from Gonic in the late 1980s and another from the West Epping Preparative Meeting from 1982-1996.
Background on Gonic Friends Meeting
Quaker worship in Rochester, New Hampshire, began in 1742 under the care of Dover Monthly Meeting, becoming the Pine Grove Worship Group by 1846. After the meetinghouse was moved to the Gonic neighborhood of Rochester in about 1862, the name of the meeting was changed to Gonic. Gonic became a preparative meeting in 1950 and was finally set off from Dover as a monthly meeting in 1981. It remains a part of Dover Quarter.
Scope of collection
The scant records of Gonic Friends Meeting consist solely of newsletters: one run from Gonic in the late 1980s and another from the West Epping Preparative Meeting from 1982-1996.
Inventory
Includes minutes for Apr. 1983, Mar. and No. 1983; State of the meeting reports, 1983-1984.
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.
See also: Leslie, A. Shirley: oral history interview with Barbara Sturrock, July 2004, on her work with United Society of Friends Women and Gonic Monthly Meeting (filed with USFW Records).
Current contact for the meeting
Gonic Friends Meeting facebook page (accessed November 2018).
Processing Information
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, October 2018.
Language:
English
Copyright and Use (More information )
Cite as: Gonic Friends Meeting Records (MS 902 G665). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Search terms
Subjects
- Quakers–New Hampshire
- Rochester (N.H.)–Religious life and customs
- Society of Friends–New Hampshire
Names
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
- West Epping Preparative Meeting of Friends
Genre terms
- Newsletters