Massachusetts Peace Society

{{Short description|Historical US anti-war organization}}

The Massachusetts Peace Society (1815–1828) was an anti-war organization{{Citation

|publisher = Manning & Loring

|location = Boston

|title = The Massachusetts register and United States calendar for the year of our Lord 1829

|url = https://archive.org/stream/massachusettsreg1829bost#page/n3/mode/2up

|edition =

|date = 1829

|oclc = 1770853

}} in Boston, Massachusetts, established to "diffuse light on the subject of war, and to cultivate the principles and spirit of peace."Massachusetts Peace Society. Boston Recorder, 02-28-1816 Founding officers included Thomas Dawes, William Phillips, Elisha Ticknor, Thomas Wallcut and Noah Worcester.{{Citation

|publisher = Loring

|location = Boston

|title = The Massachusetts register and United States calendar for the year of our Lord 1817

|url = https://archive.org/stream/pocketalmanackfo1817amer#page/n3/mode/2up

|edition =

|date = 1817

}} In 1828 the society "merged into the newly formed American Peace Society."{{cite web |url=http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG001-025/dg020MassPeaceSociety.htm |title=Massachusetts Peace Society Records (DG 020), Swarthmore College Peace Collection |website=www.swarthmore.edu |access-date=2010-09-04}}James Libby Tryon. The Rise of the Peace Movement. Yale Law Journal, Vol. 20, No. 5 (Mar., 1911)