Boston Monthly Meeting of Friends Records
1870-1974
37 vols., 1 box 3.5 linear feet
Call no.: MS 902 B678
Although Quakers first worshipped in Boston in 1661, they were late in the game in organizing a formal meeting. A preparative meeting operated in the city for just over a hundred years (1707-1808) under the auspices of the Salem Monthly Meeting, and a second attempt at building a community began in 1870 with authorization of an indulged meeting in Roxbury. Set off formally as the Boston Monthly Meeting Friend in 1883, this meeting continued until 1944, when it merged with an independent meeting in neighboring Cambridge to create the current Friends Meeting at Cambridge.
The records in this collection offer thorough documentation of the Boston Monthly Meeting of Friends from its establishment as an indulged meeting in 1870 through to its merger in 1944 and change of name to the Friends Meeting at Cambridge. In addition to the meeting minutes, the collection includes substantial records of the monthly’s Friends Guild and Women’s Foreign Missionary Society.
Gift of New England Yearly Meeting of Friends, April 2017
Subjects
Boston (Mass.)--Religious life and customsQuakers--MassachusettsSociety of Friends--MassachusettsContributors
New England Yearly Meeting of FriendsTypes of material
Minutes (Administrative records)Vital records (Document genre)