Monadnock Quaker Meeting Records
In 1957, a group of Quakers in Rindge, New Hampshire, established an independent worship group affiliated with the Connecticut Valley Quarter which became the Monadnock Quaker Meeting in the following year. From 1957 to 2011, members of the meeting supported the Meeting School in Rindge, a co-educational boarding school run on Quaker principles.
The records of Monadnock Quaker meeting offer a perspective on the growth of the Society of Friends in southern New Hampshire over more than half a century. As kept by the meeting clerks, the records for the early 1980s include a jumble of newsletters, notes, drafts, and minutes of meetings which appear to be nearly complete.
Background on Monadnock Quaker Meeting
In 1957, a group of Quakers in Rindge, New Hampshire, established an independent worship group affiliated with the Connecticut Valley Quarter which became the Monadnock Quaker Meeting in the following year. From 1957 to 2011, members of the meeting supported the Meeting School in Rindge, a co-educational boarding school run on Quaker principles.
Care of Monadnock Meeting was transferred from Connecticut Valley to Northwest Quarter in 1973. The meeting has in turn supported worship groups in Keene (1978-1980), Nelson (1987-?), and Wilton, N.H. (1987, now Souhegan Preparative Meeting). The meeting currently meets in Jaffrey, N.H.
Scope of collection
The records of Monadnock Quaker meeting offer a perspective on the growth of the Society of Friends in southern New Hampshire over more than half a century. As kept by the meeting clerks, the records for the early 1980s include a jumble of newsletters, notes, drafts, and minutes of meetings which appear to be nearly complete. The collection also includes a couple of issues of the newsletter from the Meeting School.
Inventory
Closed until 2028
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
Monadnock Quaker Meeting website (accessed Nov. 2018).
Processing Information
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, November 2018.
Language:
English
Copyright and Use (More information )
Cite as: Monadnock Quaker Meeting Records (MS 902 M663). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Search terms
Subjects
- Boarding schools–New Hampshire
- Jaffrey (N.H.)–Religious life and customs
- Quakers–New Hampshire
- Society of Friends–New Hampshire
Names
- Meeting School (Rindge, N.H.)
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
Genre terms
- Minutes (Administrative records)
- Newsletters