While traveling to the mountains last week for a hike in New Hampshire, I decided to stop at the Quaker Meeting House in Dover, New Hampshire. I suspect there is a relationship between this building and a late eighteenth century slip script decorated red earthenware pan that I recently wrote about, which was recovered in neighboring Rollinsford, New Hampshire, a community filled with Quakers that was a part of Dover until the 1800s. The pan is inscribed with religious text and dated "1793: http://www.earlyamericancerami
Built in 1768, the Dover Quaker Meeting House will also be included as part of the new two-volume book I’m working on now, titled, An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, South Danvers, Peabody and Salem, Massachusetts: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2025/09/some-info-about-forthcoming-book.html.
The history of the Dover Quaker Meeting House began in the mid-1600s when Quaker missionaries arrived in the area, leading to the establishment of the Dover Friends Meeting in 1680. After earlier meetinghouses were constructed, a significant third meetinghouse was built in 1768 at 141 Central Avenue, which still stands today and is the oldest religious structure in the city. This building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and remains in use by the Dover Friends Meeting. This Quaker group was also intertwined with the Quakers living in the Danvers and Salem area before the American Revolution.
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