Amesbury Friends Meeting
Amesbury Friends Meeting
Amesbury Friends Meeting is a “monthly meeting” of the Religious Society of Friends. Quakers first met in our current Amesbury location in 1705. In 1851 our meetinghouse was completed.
Our meeting, with other regional monthly meetings, are part of the Salem Quarterly Meeting, and the New England Yearly Meeting.
Worship
Our community of Friends meets for an “unprogrammed” Meeting for Worship every Sunday at 10:00am. If you have not joined us before see:
An Invitation to Meeting for Worship and Suggestions for Newcomers
First Day Youth Program
Find out more about our Youth Program.
Business Meetings & Process
Meeting for Worship to Conduct Business: On the Third Sunday of each month we join to discuss Friends’ business, conducted in the Spirit of Meeting for Worship. We reach decisions through careful listening to God’s will and speaking from the heart, believing this process to be as important as the decision itself.
The work of the Meeting is all volunteer, organized by various committees. We encourage new members to attend Meeting for Business and join a committee to enjoy the fuller life of our Quaker Community.
See a List of our Committees and their Clerks
Read our Handbook of Policies & Procedures
Living Our Vision Through Community Outreach
Amesbury Friends Meeting is committed to community support and outreach. We offer both financial and volunteer support to various Quaker and Community organizations.
Read this article about Quakerism by one of our long-time members and author Edith Maxwell
We invite you to join our ever-widening circle of Friends!
History of Amesbury Meeting
The first record of the Friends Society in Hampton, New Hampshire, was in 1701. At that time the decision was made to build a meetinghouse. A total of sixty-six pounds was raised to pay for the structure and in June of 1701 Thomas Chase of Hampton gave a parcel of land to the Quakers of the area to “Seat a Meetinghouse thereon.”
Quakers from the surrounding towns attended monthly or weekly Meeting there until a Meetinghouse was completed in Amesbury by 1710.
Between 1710 and 1768 monthly meeting alternated between the two locations. In 1705 the first written record of the Amesbury Meeting appeared. It met under the care of the Hampton New Hampshire Monthly Meeting with a name change in 1792 to the Seabrook Monthly Meeting. In 1884 we became the Amesbury Monthly Meeting.
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