Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends Records
Friends in Middletown, Connecticut, began holding meetings under the care of Hartford Monthly Meeting by 1943 and were set off as a monthly meeting of their own in 1956. Drawing heavily from the faculty and staff at Wesleyan College, at least in their early years, the meeting is part of Connecticut Valley Quarter.
The records of Middletown Monthly Meeting document more than sixty years of a Quaker meeting in the lower Connecticut Valley beginning in the mid-1950s.
Background on Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends
Friends in Middletown, Connecticut, began holding meetings under the care of Hartford Monthly Meeting by 1943 and were set off as a monthly meeting of their own in 1956. Drawing heavily from the faculty and staff at Wesleyan College, at least in their early years, the meeting is part of Connecticut Valley Quarter.
Scope of collection
The records of Middletown Monthly Meeting document more than sixty years of a Quaker meeting in the lower Connecticut Valley beginning in the mid-1950s.
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.
Processing Information
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, November 2018.
Language:
English
Copyright and Use (More information )
Cite as: Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends Records (MS 902 M5337). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Search terms
Subjects
- Middletown (Conn.)–Religious life and customs
- Quakers–Connecticut
- Society of Friends–Connecticut
Names
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
Genre terms
- Minutes (Administrative records)
- Newsletters