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The Quaker Meeting

Forty-five years ago, Arthur Power donated two acres of ground lying a little north of the centre of section 28, and in its northeast quarter, to be used by the Quaker people of Farmington for church and cemetery purposes, one acre for each. These two acres are now just within the western boundary of the corporation of Farmington village. Upon this ground the old Quaker meeting- house, a good frame structure, was built in the year 1832; Mr. Power himself furnishing a goodly share of the necessary means. It was the intention that the ground which was not covered by the building should be utilized as a grazing-place, where the horses of the worshipers might refresh themselves while their owners were within the temple awaiting the moving of the spirit; and for these purposes the building and the glebe were used by the peaceful, unostentatious Quakers and their beasts for a space of about thirty years, until death's ravages had so far thinned their congregation that the few survivors thought it best to discontinue their meetings as a sect. This is all the history of the Quaker church. Its existence was marked by no ceremonious installations, no schisms or bickerings, and no revivals, or notable harvests of souls. The generation have passed away, and the old house, whose walls witnessed their undemonstrative worship for many years, is now a dwelling-house, occupied by sons of the descendants of Farmington's first Quaker man, Arthur Power.