Who are Amesbury Friends?

A Brief History of Amesbury Friends Meeting

The first record of the Friends Society in Hampton, New Hampshire, is 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 Meeting-house thereon".

Quakers from all of the surrounding towns attended monthly or weekly meeting there until a Meetinghouse was built inAmesbury in 1705. Between 1710 and 1768 monthly meeting alternated between the two locations.

Amesbury meeting is best known as the meeting of the famous poet and social activist, John Greenleaf Whittier.