Smith Neck Meetinghouse in South Dartmouth, Mass., was built in 1818, but Quaker settlers in the Smith Neck area of Dartmouth had begun to meet in homes about 1768. Smith Neck Meeting conducts business under the formal name of Dartmouth Meeting, which was originated in 1699. As a programmed meeting influenced by the nineteenth-century evangelical Quaker Joseph John Gurney, their service is led by a part-time pastor and the benches look more like pews.