Acushnet Friends Records
The following 200+ images are of old film scans of Friends records maintained by the Acushnet Friends Meeting prior to their closing.
These images represent only a portion of the actual book(s). It is unknown if any more of these film scans exist.
Recommended reading
Disowned without just cause : Quakers in Rochester, Massachusetts, during the eighteenth century. Carol, Hagglund University of Massachusetts Amherst
This dissertation puts all these Quaker records we are transcribing into perspective related to the Quaker mindset, methodology and the evolution of the various monthly meetings from Sandwich to Dartmouth.
While it's focus is the Rochester Meeting (which was a ‘constituent meeting’ of Dartmouth for many years), the influence of the Sandwich and Dartmouth Meetings paint a more encompassing story of the early Quaker settlements across all of the South Coast.
It addresses the Proprietors and land distribution, building the Friends organization, and formulating and implementing policies such as found in the Quaker Books of Discipline.
A must read for anyone interested in the Quaker history of our south coast!
These images represent only a portion of the actual book(s). It is unknown if any more of these film scans exist.
Recommended reading
Disowned without just cause : Quakers in Rochester, Massachusetts, during the eighteenth century. Carol, Hagglund University of Massachusetts Amherst
This dissertation puts all these Quaker records we are transcribing into perspective related to the Quaker mindset, methodology and the evolution of the various monthly meetings from Sandwich to Dartmouth.
While it's focus is the Rochester Meeting (which was a ‘constituent meeting’ of Dartmouth for many years), the influence of the Sandwich and Dartmouth Meetings paint a more encompassing story of the early Quaker settlements across all of the South Coast.
It addresses the Proprietors and land distribution, building the Friends organization, and formulating and implementing policies such as found in the Quaker Books of Discipline.
A must read for anyone interested in the Quaker history of our south coast!
The book headings in this set of images are as follows:
Members received, names, births, removed, returned, disowned, deaths, where buried
Alphabetical last names A - L
Alphabetical Last names M - Y
Members received, names, births, removed, returned, disowned, deaths, where buried
Alphabetical last names A - L
Alphabetical Last names M - Y
Names and numbers of members of local meetings
Friends Long Plain 1793
Friends list unknown (maybe New Bedford)
NB set off from Dartmouth
1869 Friends count
Member counts
Friends Long Plain 1793
Friends list unknown (maybe New Bedford)
NB set off from Dartmouth
1869 Friends count
Member counts
