{"id":36646,"date":"2026-08-18T12:51:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/?page_id=36646"},"modified":"2026-09-06T05:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:25:20","slug":"acushnet-friends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/digital-library\/colonial-era-records\/acushnet-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Acushnet Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tAcushnet Friends Records\t<\/h1>\n\tThe following 200+ images are of old film scans of Friends records maintained by the Acushnet Friends Meeting prior to their closing.<br \/>\nThese images represent only a portion of the actual book(s). It is unknown if any more of these film scans exist.\n<h2>\n\t\t\tRecommended reading\t<\/h2>\n\t<ul>\n\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1I6m67HvQtJjRyNnN9U0n30VAVVVRvUOk\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1I6m67HvQtJjRyNnN9U0n30VAVVVRvUOk\/view\">\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdf-icon-navy.svg\" alt=\"pdf-icon-navy\" title=\"pdf-icon-navy\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t<h2>Disowned without just cause<\/h2><\/a><\/li>\t<\/ul>\n\t<p>Quakers in Rochester, Massachusetts, during the eighteenth century. Carol, Hagglund University of Massachusetts Amherst.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s focus is the Rochester Meeting (which was a &#8216;constituent meeting&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A must read for anyone interested in the Quaker history of our south coast!<\/p>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tThe book headings in this set of images are as follows:\t<\/h3>\n\t<p>Members received, names, births, removed, returned, disowned, deaths, where buried<\/p>\n\t<ul>\n\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1-5iV8ZVSYUVu3HMydmQI6zOnWEl4qLhK\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1-5iV8ZVSYUVu3HMydmQI6zOnWEl4qLhK\/view\">\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdf-icon-navy.svg\" alt=\"pdf-icon-navy\" title=\"pdf-icon-navy\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t<h2>Alphabetical last names A &#8211; L<\/h2><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ZrNU5ksCj0IqRAqiHdCKKR7Oreat0_ry\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ZrNU5ksCj0IqRAqiHdCKKR7Oreat0_ry\/view\">\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdf-icon-navy.svg\" alt=\"pdf-icon-navy\" title=\"pdf-icon-navy\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t<h2>\u200bAlphabetical Last names M &#8211; Y<\/h2><\/a><\/li>\t<\/ul>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tNames and numbers of members of local meetings\t<\/h3>\n\t<ul>\n\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Fxx-WxRV3dw-JNcSWKO55dpUaucbs81f\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Fxx-WxRV3dw-JNcSWKO55dpUaucbs81f\/view\">\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdf-icon-navy.svg\" alt=\"pdf-icon-navy\" title=\"pdf-icon-navy\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t<h2>Friends Long Plain 1793<\/h2><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1dw7vHq8YI33E7MXpUNfSzNlo6rHZZuAD\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1dw7vHq8YI33E7MXpUNfSzNlo6rHZZuAD\/view\">\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdf-icon-navy.svg\" alt=\"pdf-icon-navy\" title=\"pdf-icon-navy\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t<h2>Friends list unknown (maybe New Bedford)<\/h2><\/a><\/li>\t<\/ul>\n\t<ul>\n\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/nb_set_off_from_dart.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/nb_set_off_from_dart.jpg\">\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<h2>NB set off from Dartmouth<\/h2><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/1869_friends_count.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/1869_friends_count.jpg\">\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<h2>1869 Friends count<\/h2><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/member_counts.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-content\/uploads\/member_counts.jpg\">\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<h2>Member counts<\/h2><\/a><\/li>\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"parent":36605,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36646","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36646"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39054,"href":"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36646\/revisions\/39054"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiebox.com\/super\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}