Berwick Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) Records
1802-1975
10 vols., 1 box 1.25 linear feet
Call no.: MS 902 B479
The fortunes of the Berwick (Maine) Monthly Meeting reflect the rise and decline of Quakerism in southern Maine more generally. Worship began in North Berwick in about 1750 and the Berwick Monthly Meeting was formally set off from its parent, Dover, in 1802. Following the Wilburite split, however, the meeting gradually declined. Regular meetings were suspended in 1919 and the meeting was formally laid down in 1952.
The surviving records of the Friends Monthly Meeting in North Berwick, Maine, contain the minutes of men’s, women’s, and joint meetings from throughout 1802, when it was set off from Dover Monthly Meeting, until it was laid down in 1952. The collection also contains records of births, deaths, and marriages under auspices of the meeting from the first worship in North Berwick in 1750 into the mid-nineteenth century.
Gift of New England Yearly Meeting of Friends, April 2017
Subjects
Berwick (Me.)--Religious life and customsQuakers--MaineSociety of Friends--MaineContributors
New England Yearly Meeting of FriendsTypes of material
Minutes (Administrative records)Vital records (Document genre)