New London Friends Meeting Records
A monthly Quaker meeting affiliated with Connecticut Valley Quarter, New London Friends Meeting began in about 1964, when Hobart Mitchell moved to the area to join the faculty at Mitchell College and gathered together a small cadre of Friends to create an independent worship group. New London Friends were granted status as a monthly meeting in 1966, and secured a meetinghouse of their own in 1985.
The records of New London Friends Meeting consist of an incomplete set of minutes from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s.
Background on New London Friends Meeting
New London Friends Meeting began in about 1964, when Hobart Mitchell moved to the area to join the faculty at Mitchell College and discovered there was no active meeting in the immediate area. Through the Friends World Committee and Friends General Conference, Mitchell came up with the names of two “isolated” Friends nearby, and convinced two each from Westerly and Guilford Monthly Meetings to gather in an independent worship group.
In the early years, this small circle met in Mitchell’s living room, but after growing and securing status as a monthly meeting under care of Connecticut Valley Quarter in 1966, they found themselves without a home, gathering in various places in town and at Connecticut College as opportunity presented. When the Community Chapel on Oswegatchie Road closed down in 1985, however, the requirement that the building be used only for religious purposes resulted in New London Friends having a meetinghouse of their own.
Scope of collection
The records of New London Friends Meeting consist of an incomplete set of minutes from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s.
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
New London Meeting facebook page (accessed Nov. 2018).
Processing Information
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, October 2018.
Language:
English
Copyright and Use (More information )
Cite as: New London Friends Meeting Records (MS 902 N495). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Search terms
Subjects
- New London (Conn.)–Religious life and customs
- Quakers–Connecticut
- Society of Friends–Connecticut
Names
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
Genre terms
- Minutes (Administrative records)