Hartford Friends Meeting Records
Although a Friends Meeting under the care of New York Yearly Meeting gathered in West Hartford from 1805 to 1819, the recent history of Friends in the Connecticut capitol began in 1935, when meetings were held as part of the independent Connecticut Valley Association of Friends. During the general unification of Friends in New England in 1944, the Association formally joined New England Yearly Meeting and Hartford Friends Meeting was officially set off.
The records of Hartford Monthly Meeting are unusually complete and extensive for a meeting from western New England, including nearly unbroken runs of meeting minutes and newsletters from the start of the meeting to the present.
Background on Hartford Friends Meeting
Although a Friends Meeting under the care of New York Yearly Meeting gathered in West Hartford from 1805 to 1819, the recent history of Friends in the Connecticut capitol began in 1935, when meetings were held as part of the independent Connecticut Valley Association of Friends. During the general unification of Friends in New England in 1944, the Association formally joined New England Yearly Meeting and Hartford Friends Meeting was officially set off.
Still part of Connecticut Valley Quarterly, the Hartford Friends Meting has been a steward or point of origin for serval other meetings, including a worship groups in Middletown (1943-1956), Storrs (1962-1962), and Watertown (1969-1975), each of which has been set off as a monthly.
Scope of collection
The records of Hartford Monthly Meeting are unusually complete and extensive for a meeting from western New England, including nearly unbroken runs of meeting minutes and newsletters from the start of the meeting to the present.
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
Hartford Friends Meeting website (accessed Nov. 2018).
Processing Information
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, October 2018.
Language:
English
Copyright and Use (More information )
Cite as: Hartford Friends Meeting Records (MS 902 h378). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Search terms
Subjects
- Hartford (Conn.)–Religious life and customs
- Quakers–Connecticut
- Society of Friends–Connecticut
Names
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
Genre terms
- Minutes (Administrative records)
- Newsletters