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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

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Journal of Joshua Evans 1795-1796 (E)