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From: "Elizabeth Zaring" <>
Subject: Dover NH Lib. Quaker Holdings
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:02:44 -0500
In-Reply-To: <012801c5f686$2cd00cd0$6401a8c0@Dutt337fam1>


This fall I took the opportunity to spend a day at the Dover, New Hampshire,
Public Library to research my Quaker ancestors from that area. The library
has 5 reels of film with the following information, mainly from the Dover MM
and some from Salem and Rochester MM:

Reel #1:
Salem Monthly Meeting Records 1677-1778
Births & Deaths 1709-1818
Marriage Certificates 1683-1799
Salem Monthly Meeting Records 1778-1796

Reel #2:
Dover Monthly Meeting
Minutes, Men 1840-1890
Minutes, Women 1846-1886
Births, Deaths, Marriages 1678-1949
Ministers & Elders 1793-1891

Reel #3:
Dover Monthly Meeting
Minutes, women 1701-1784
Minutes, Women 1814-1844
Minutes of Rochester Meeting 1862-1873

Reel #4:
Births, Deaths, Marriages: 1678-1862 taken from earliest records begun 1787
Marriages: 1789-1959
Births, Deaths, Marriages: 1678-1949 made from earlier records, 1871-on
Dover Monthly Meeting of Ministers & Elders
Minutes: 5-17-1793 to 8-13-1833
Minutes: 10-14-1873 to 12-09-1891

Reel #5:
Vol. 4: Minutes of Men Friends 12-12-1811 to 12-11-1823
Vol. 5: Minutes of Men Friends 01-08-1824 to 12-11-1834
Vol. 6: Minutes of Men Friends 01-08-1835 to 10-09-1845


In 1909 the NH Genealogical Society donated its collection to the Dover
Public Library. The library has over 4000 volumnes of local and state
history in its Historical Room. The Historical Room also contains a
remarkable collection of family histories and genealogies. I found family
histories on my Shaw, Nutter, Leighton, Varney (three different books on
the Varney's), and Sarah Starbuck ancestors.

Regards,
Beth Zaring


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