Organization name |
East Hartford Friends meeting |
Date founded |
1788 |
Org type |
Local meeting |
Bio notes |
Hartford's first Quakers emigrated from New York and established a meeting in the Connecticut area in 1788. Joshua Evans held a meeting for worship in what he described as East Hartford in 1795. In 1800, Friends established a preparative meeting under the Oblong Monthly Meeting, around which time they built a Meeting House and school in West Hartford. |
See also |
New York Yearly meeting of Friends, Hartford Friends meeting |
Citations |
https://www.quakercloud.org/cloud/pages/hartford-meeting-history |