Lewiston Monthly Meeting of Friends Records
The Society of Friends has had a long, but discontinuous history in Lewiston, Maine. After periods of activity from 1785-1851 and 1867-1911, Quaker worship in Lewiston was revived in 1972, leading to reinstatement of a monthly meeting in 1980. Oxford Hills Monthly Meeting was set off from Lewiston in 1993.
The records of the Quaker meeting in Lewiston, Maine, cover its third and most recent iteration, including minutes from 1980 to 1993 ad a handful of state of society reports. The collection also include limited documentation of the Oxford Hills Worship Group prior to its setting off as a monthly meeting in 1993.
Background on Lewiston Monthly Meeting of Friends
The Society of Friends has had a long, but far from continuous history in Lewiston, Maine. A Quaker worship group began meeting in Lewiston under care of Falmouth Monthly Meeting in 1785, transferring five years later to Durham Monthly and becoming a preparative meeting in 1816.
After having been laid down from 1851 to 1867, the Lewiston Preparative Meeting was revived and advanced to a monthly meeting under Falmouth Quarter when it was set off from Durham in 1891, but twenty years later it was again laid down with its remaining members transferred to Durham.
In 1972, Quakers in Lewiston came together yet again to hold summer meetings for worship under the care of Falmouth Monthly Meeting, leading to a reinstatement of Lewiston Monthly Meeting in 1980. A worship group in Oxford Hills that began meeting under Lewston’s care in 1984 was set off as its own monthly meeting in 1993.
Scope of collection
The records of the Quaker meeting in Lewiston, Maine, cover its third and most recent iteration, including minutes from 1980 to 1993 ad a handful of state of society reports. The collection also include limited documentation of the Oxford Hills Worship group prior to its setting off as a monthly meeting in 1993.
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.
A volume of minutes from Lewiston Monthly Meeting, 1891-1911, are housed at the Maine Historical Society.
Processing Information
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, October 2018.
Language:
English
Copyright and Use (More information )
Cite as: Lewiston Monthly Meeting of Friends Records (MS 902 L495). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Search terms
Subjects
- Lewiston (Me.)–Religious life and customs
- Quakers–Maine
- Society of Friends–Maine
Names
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
Genre terms
- Minutes (Administrative records)