Introduction

The Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Quaker) records, located at Malone College, Canton, Ohio, were transferred for microfilming to the Center for Archival Collections in April 1987, with the assistance of Malone College personnel. The collection is comprised of 266 record books which date from 1760 to 1965 and cover certain areas of Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, and West Virginia. The volumes contain meeting minutes and membership information, including records of birth, marriage, removal, transfer, and death.

No restrictions exist on the research use of this collection. The collection and finding aid were prepared by Stephen M. Charter and Stephen C. Young in June 1987.

Scope and Content

The Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends, Mt. Pleasant/Damascus, Ohio (now Evangelical Friends Church, Eastern Region) collection (1760-1965) provides the researcher with a great quantity of statistical information on membership activities such as births, marriages, removals, transfers, and death. Vital statistical information such as names (fathers names and mother's maiden names), dates, and location are provided within some volumes. Administrative information is available through the minutes of the various meetings held by the Friends, including the Women Friends, Preparative, Select Preparative, Monthly, and other meetings. The Treasurer's Reports, as well as some of the meeting minutes, provide information on financial aspects of the Friends Church.

Organizational records include Library Account Books which list the titles of books and names of patrons, Sunday School Record Books which list the names of officers, teachers, and pupils, and the minutes and membership records of the Christian Endeavor Society and Foreign Missionary Society.

Order of Microfilming

Roll 1

Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends
  1. Women Friends Minutes, 1827-1837
  2. Women Friends Minutes, 1838-1871
  3. Women Friends Minutes, 1872-1887
  4. Women's Foreign Missionary Board Minutes, 1888-1893
  5. Women's Foreign Missionary Board Minutes, 1893-1900
  6. Women's Foreign Missionary Board Minutes, 1900-1911

Roll 2

Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends
  1. Women's Foreign Missionary Board Minutes, 1911-1923
  2. Foreign Missionary Society Treasurer's Book, 1902-1909
  3. Foreign Missionary Society Treasurer's Book, 1909-1916
  4. Foreign Missionary Society Treasurer's Book, 1917-1927
  5. Ministers and Elders Minutes, 1870-1965

Roll 3

Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends
  1. Meeting for Sufferings Minutes (becomes Meeting of Representatives Minutes), 1854-1876
  2. Representative Body of Ohio, 1877-1930

    Alum Creek, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
    Ashley Preparative Meeting:
  3. Ashley Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1887-1891

    Ashley Monthly Meeting:
  4. Ashley Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1891-1903

    Alum Creek Monthly Meeting:
  5. Record of Births and Deaths, 1830-
  6. Record of Marriages and Removal Certificates, 1833-1923
  7. Membership Book No. 2, 1875-1889
  8. Membership Book (Ashley included), 1891-1931

Roll 4

Alum Creek, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
Alum Creek Monthly Meeting
  1. Women Friends in Delaware County, 1817-1842
  2. Women Friends Minutes, vol. 3, 1854-1876
  3. Women Friends Minutes, vol. 4, 1876-1882
  4. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1817-1833
  5. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1833-1850
  6. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1850-1865
  7. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1865-1881

Roll 5

Alum Creek, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
Alum Creek Monthly Meeting
  1. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1881-1898
  2. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1898-1905
  3. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1905-1912
  4. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1912-1935

    Greenwich Preparative Meeting:
  5. Men's Record Book No. 1, 1834-1854

Roll 6

Alum Creek, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
Williamsville (Orange) Monthly Meeting:
  1. Monthly Meeting Business Records (becomes Orange Monthly Meeting), 1901-1904
  2. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1904-1920
  3. Ministry and Oversight Minutes, 1930-1945
  4. Orange Home and Foreign Missionary Society Minutes, 1930-1956
  5. Sunday School Record Book, 1923-1925

    Cleveland, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
  6. Quarterly Meeting Minutes, 1905-1922
  7. Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders Minutes, 1895-1910

    Cleveland Monthly Meeting:
  8. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1883-1895

Roll 7

Cleveland, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
Cleveland Monthly Meeting
  1. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1896-1902
  2. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1902-1908
  3. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1908-1919
  4. Overseers' Meeting of the First Friends Church, Cedar Avenue, Cleveland, Minutes, 1899-1922

    New Garden (Springfield, Damascus), Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
  5. Women Friends Minutes, 1828-1836
  6. Women Friends Minutes (becomes Springfield Quarterly Meeting), 1837-1850
  7. Springfield Women Friends Minutes, 1851-1866
  8. Springfield Women Friends Minutes (becomes Damascus Quarterly Meeting), 1867-1868
  9. Women Friends Minutes, 1868-1882

Roll 8

New Garden (Springfield, Damascus), Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
  1. Quarterly Meeting Minutes, 1828-1836
  2. Quarterly Meeting Minutes (becomes Springfield Quarterly Meeting), 1837-1866
  3. Quarterly Meeting Minutes (becomes Damascus Quarterly Meeting), 1867-1883

    Damascus, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
  4. Quarterly Meeting Minutes, 1884-1904
  5. Quarterly Meeting Minutes, 1904-1921

Roll 9

Damascus, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
  1. Ministers and Elders Minutes, 1886-1898
  2. Ministers and Elders Minutes (becomes Ministry and Oversight Minutes), 1898-1904
  3. Ministry and Oversight Minutes, 1904-1926

    Augusta Preparative Meeting:
  4. Augusta Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1853-1886
  5. Augusta Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1887-1901

    Augusta Friends Church:
  6. Sabbath School Minutes, 1888-1899
  7. Sabbath School Minutes, 1899-1908
  8. Augusta (or Sandy Springs) Membership Records, n.d.

    Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting:
  9. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1820-1844

Roll 10

Damascus, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting
  1. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1844-1879
  2. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1879-1895
  3. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1895-1910
  4. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1910-1921
  5. Marriage Certificates, 1821-1874
  6. Transfer Certificates, 1821-1906
  7. McGowen Library Record Book, 1845-1913

    Sandy Spring Preparative Meeting:
  8. Ministers and Elders Minutes, 1855-1894

Roll 11

Damascus, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
Marlborough (Alliance) Monthly Meeting:
  1. Women Friends Minutes, 1814-1836
  2. Women Friends Minutes, 1837-1864
  3. Marriage Certificates, 1828-1870
  4. Membership List, 1795-1880
  5. Book of Transfers, 1829-1882
  6. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1814-1828
  7. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1828-1834
  8. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1834-1856

Roll 12

Damascus, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
Marlborough (Alliance) Monthly Meeting
  1. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1857-1865
  2. Monthly Meeting Minutes (becomes Alliance Monthly Meeting), 1865-1879
  3. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1901-1913
  4. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1913-1923
  5. Membership Book, 1901-1913
  6. Membership Book, 1917
  7. Evangelistic and Pastoral Committee Minutes (Finance Committee Reports included), 1902-1915

    Beloit Preparative Meeting:
  8. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1889-1900
  9. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1900-1901

    Beloit Monthly Meeting:
  10. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1901-1917

Roll 13

Damascus, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
Beloit Monthly Meeting
  1. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1917-1939
    (Upper) Springfield (Damascus) Preparative Meeting:
  2. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1808-1814
  3. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1825
  4. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1827-1831
  5. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1844-1849
  6. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1853-1857
  7. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1860-1867
  8. Preparative Meeting Minutes (becomes Damascus Preparative Meeting), 1867
  9. Preparative Meeting Minutes 1867-1868
  10. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1877-1901

    Upper Springfield (Damascus) Monthly Meeting:
  11. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1825-1838
  12. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1838-1855

Roll 14

Damascus, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
Upper Springfield (Damascus) Monthly Meeting
  1. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1856-1867
  2. Monthly Meeting Minutes (becomes Damascus Monthly Meeting), 1856-1867
  3. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1867-1872
  4. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1872-1899
  5. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1899-1907
  6. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1907-1912

Roll 15

Damascus, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
Upper Springfield (Damascus) Monthly Meeting
  1. Women Friends Minutes, 1848-1867
  2. Women Friends Minutes (becomes Damascus Monthly Meeting), 1867
  3. Women Friends Minutes, 1867-1881
  4. Women Friends Minutes, 1881-1883
  5. Women Friends Missionary Auxiliary Minutes, 1894-1905
  6. Library Account Book, 1849-1867
  7. Library Account Book (becomes Damascus Monthly Meeting), 1867-1895
  8. Membership Record (with index), n.d.
  9. Membership Record, 1866-1921

Roll 16

Damascus, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
Upper Springfield (Damascus) Monthly Meeting
  1. Membership Record, 1915-1931
  2. Birth and Death Records, 1825-1884
  3. Removal and Marriage Certificates, 1826-1855
  4. Marriage Certificates, 1855-1883
  5. Transfer Certificates, 1856-1897
  6. Young People's Society for Christian Endeavor Minutes, 1893-1899
  7. Christian Endeavor Society Membership Records, 1893-1901

    Upper Springfield (Damascus) Select Preparative Meeting:
  8. Ministers and Elders Minutes, 1826-1852
  9. Ministers and Elders Minutes, 1853-1867
  10. Ministers and Elders Minutes (becomes Damascus Select Preparative Meeting), 1867-1877
  11. Ministers and Elders Minutes, 1878-1892

    (East) Goshen Preparative Meeting:
  12. Women Friends Minutes, 1864-1882
  13. Ministry and Oversight Minutes, 1913-1959

Roll 17

Damascus, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
East Goshen Monthly Meeting:
  1. Women Friends Minutes, 1870-1882
  2. Women Friends Minutes (becomes East Goshen Monthly Meeting Minutes), 1889-1898
  3. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1898-1912
  4. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1912-1924
  5. Charter and Board of Trustees Minutes, 1898-1934
  6. Records of Births and Deaths, 1870-

    Valley Friends Monthly Meeting:
  7. Charter Membership Book, 1915

    New Garden (Winona) Monthly Meeting:
  8. Women Friends Minutes, 1871-1882
  9. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1867-1884
  10. Monthly Meeting Minutes (becomes Winona Monthly Meeting), 1884-1891
  11. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1891-1912

Roll 18

Damascus, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
New Garden (Winona) Monthly Meeting
  1. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1912-1929
  2. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1930-1939
  3. Membership Book, 1892-
  4. Salem Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1888-1906
  5. Salem Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders (becomes Winona Preparative Meeting of Ministry and Oversight), 1906-1913

    Salem, Ohio Quarterly Meeting:
  6. Quarterly Meeting Minutes, 1854-1883
  7. Quarterly Meeting Minutes, 1883-1917
  8. Women Friends Minutes, 1866-1883
  9. Ministry and Oversight Minutes, 1916-1926
  10. Ministry and Oversight Minutes (becomes Damascus Quarterly Meeting), 1927-1937

    Goshen, Ohio Quarterly Meeting:
  11. Women Friends Minutes, 1875-1883
  12. Quarterly Meeting Minutes, 1875-1916

Roll 19

Salem, Ohio Quarterly Meeting
Goshen, Ohio Quarterly Meeting
  1. Ministry and Oversight Minutes, 1899-1942
  2. Treasurer's Book, 1909-1935

    Bellefontaine Preparative Meeting:
  3. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1908-1918

    Westland (Carmel) Monthly Meeting:
  4. Women Friends Minutes, 1872-1883
  5. Record Book (Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Removals), 1863-1944 (scattered)
  6. Membership Book (includes Westland Preparative, Carmel, and North Lewisburg membership lists), 1907
  7. (Westland Monthly Meeting becomes Carmel Monthly Meeting) Membership Book, 1888-1946
  8. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1921-1938
  9. Christian Endeavor Society Minutes, 1906-1917

    Goshen Preparative Meeting:
  10. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1857-1891
  11. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1891-1909
  12. Ministers and Elders Minutes, 1861-1881
  13. Ministers and Elders Minutes, 1881-1901
  14. Ministers and Elders Minutes (becomes Ministry and Oversight Minutes), 1901-1915
  15. Ministry and Oversight Minutes, 1919-1936

Roll 20

Goshen, Ohio Quarterly Meeting
Goshen Monthly Meeting:
  1. Women Friends Minutes, 1862-1879
  2. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1867-1880
  3. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1880-1894
  4. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1894-1913
  5. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1913-1941
  6. Marriage Certificates, 1829-1875

Roll 21

Goshen, Ohio Quarterly Meeting
Goshen Monthly Meeting
  1. Transfer Certificates, 1820-1879
  2. Membership Record, 1900
  3. Treasurer's Book, 1906-1926
  4. Christian Endeavor Minutes, 1898-1906
  5. Sabbath School Records, 1895-1898
  6. Sabbath School Records, 1898-1908
  7. Sabbath School Records, 1908-1913
  8. Sabbath School Records, 1914-1918
  9. Sabbath School Records, 1918-1919
  10. Sabbath School Records, 1919-1923
  11. Sabbath School Records, 1923-1926

    Lewisburg Preparative Meeting:
  12. Women Friends Minutes, 1875-1889
    Urbana Preparative Meeting:
  13. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1906-1914

Roll 22

Short Creek, Ohio Quarterly Meeting
  1. Wedding Record Book, 1808-1869
  2. Women Friends Minutes, 1807-1879
  3. Women Friends Minutes, 1879-1881
  4. Quarterly Meeting Minutes, 1819-1837
  5. Quarterly Meeting Minutes, 1863-1917
  6. Quarterly Meeting Minutes, 1918-1934

Roll 23

Short Creek, Ohio Quarterly Meeting
  1. Ministry and Oversight Minutes, 1902-1930

    Concord Monthly Meeting:
  2. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1801-1821
  3. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1822-1826
  4. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1825-1826

    East Richland Monthly Meeting:
  5. Membership Book, 1895-
  6. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1908-1931
    East Richland Preparative Meeting:
  7. Ministry and Oversight Minutes, 1929-1955

    Flushing Monthly Meeting:
  8. Women Friends Minutes, 1854-1879

    Guernsey Preparative Meeting:
  9. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1877-1900

    Mt. Pleasant Preparative Meeting:
  10. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1897-1916

    Pleasant Grove (West Virginia) Monthly Meeting:
  11. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1877-1882

    Short Creek Monthly Meeting:
  12. Membership List, 1800-1875

Roll 24

Short Creek, Ohio Quarterly Meeting
Short Creek Monthly Meeting
  1. Marriage Certificates, 1805-1832
  2. Transfer Certificates, 1805-1832
  3. Women Friends Minutes, 1811-1813
  4. Women Friends Minutes, 1818-1854
  5. Women Friends Minutes, 1853-1879
  6. Women Friends Minutes (becomes Monthly Meeting Minutes), 1879-1882

Roll 25

Short Creek, Ohio Quarterly Meeting
Short Creek Monthly Meeting
  1. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1804-1882
  2. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1823-1825
  3. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1872-1915
  4. Library Records, 1822-1836

    Short Creek Preparative Meeting:
  5. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1823-1831

    Skimmino (Virginia) Preparative Meeting:
  6. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 18101-1817

    Smithfield Monthly Meeting:
  7. Birth Records, 1792-1874

Roll 26

Short Creek, Ohio Quarterly Meeting
Smithfield Monthly Meeting
  1. Death Records, 1806-1875
  2. Smithfield-Plymouth Transfers, 1808-1874
  3. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1833-1836
  4. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1836-1839
  5. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1842-1862
  6. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1862-1894
  7. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1894-1914

Roll 27

Short Creek, Ohio Quarterly Meeting
Smithfield Monthly Meeting
  1. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1914-1948
  2. Women Friends Minutes, 1863-1881

    Adrian, Michigan Quarterly Meeting:
  3. Membership Records (Births, Marriages, Deaths), 1760-1884
  4. Women Friends Minutes, 1845-1887
  5. Women Friends Minutes, 1843-1933

Roll 28

Adrian, Michigan Quarterly Meeting
  1. Men Friends Minutes, 1843-1898
  2. Ministers and Elders Minutes, 1843-1950
  3. Raisin Valley Seminary Minutes, 1862-1877
  4. Adrian Tract Society Minutes, 1860-1876
  5. Adrian Tract Society Minutes (becomes Home Missionary Board Minutes), 1876-1894
  6. Treasurer's Book, 1910-1923
  7. Treasurer's Reports, 1914-1920
  8. Y.P.S. Christian Endeavor Union Minutes, 1892-1910
  9. Young Ladies Foreign Missionary Society Minutes, 1893-1903
  10. Women's Foreign Missionary Society Minutes, 1900-1913

Roll 29

Adrian, Michigan Quarterly Meeting
Adrian Preparative Meeting:
  1. Ministers and Elders Minutes, 1833-1848
  2. Ministers and Elders Minutes, 1848-1868
  3. Ministers and Elders Minutes, 1869-1917
  4. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1931-1838
  5. Women Friends Minutes, 1831-1848
  6. Women Friends Minutes, 1848-1879

    Adrian Monthly Meeting:
  7. Women Friends Minutes, 1831-1839
  8. Women Friends Minutes, 1839-1853
  9. Women Friends Minutes, 1840-1848
  10. Women Friends Minutes, 1853-1878
  11. Women Friends Minutes, 1878-1881
  12. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1831-1837

Roll 30

Adrian, Michigan Quarterly Meeting
Adrian Monthly Meeting
  1. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1843-1867

    Lane (Lupton) Preparative Meeting:
  2. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1887-1903
  3. Preparative Meeting Minutes (becomes Lupton Preparative Meeting), 1903-1913

    Lane (Lupton) Monthly Meeting:
  4. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1893-1903
  5. Monthly Meeting Minutes (becomes Lupton Monthly Meeting), 1903
  6. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1904-1917
  7. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1917-1954

    Raisin Monthly Meeting:
  8. Birth, Death, and Membership Book, 1842-1929

Roll 31

Adrian, Michigan Quarterly Meeting
Raisin Monthly Meeting
  1. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1842-1854
  2. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1855-1882
  3. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1882-1908
  4. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1909-1957

Roll 32

Adrian, Michigan Quarterly Meeting
Raisin Preparative Meeting:
  1. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1840-1854
  2. Ministers and Elders Minutes, 1844-1876
  3. Ministers and Elders Minutes, 1876-1902
  4. Ministers and Elders Minutes (becomes Ministry and Oversight Minutes), 1902-1911
  5. Ministry and Oversight Minutes, 1913-1948
  6. Women Friends Minutes, 1868-1879

    Raisin Center Friends Church:
  7. Sunday School Minutes, 1880-1882
  8. Sunday School Minutes, 1887-1893
  9. Sunday School Minutes, 1909-1912
  10. Society of Christian Endeavor Minutes, 1889-1894
  11. Junior Mission Band Minutes, 1896-1909
  12. Women's Foreign Missionary Society Minutes, 1887-1903
  13. Women's Foreign Missionary Society Minutes, 1904-1925

Roll 33

Adrian, Michigan Quarterly Meeting
Raisin Center Friends Church
  1. Women's Foreign Missionary Society Minutes, 1925-1935

    Rollin Monthly Meeting:
  2. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1853-1880
  3. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1881-1924
  4. Women Friends Minutes, 1851-1878
  5. Membership Records, -1886

    Rollin Preparative Meeting:
  6. Women Friends Minutes, 1835-1853
  7. Women Friends Minutes, 1853-1879
  8. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1859-1888

Roll 34

Adrian, Michigan Quarterly Meeting
Rollin Preparative Meeting
  1. Ministers and Elders Minutes, 1860-1887

    Tecumseh Monthly Meeting:
  2. Membership Book, 1822-1950
  3. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1893-1922
  4. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1923-1947

    Tecumseh Preparative Meeting:
  5. Women Friends Minutes, 1851-1869
  6. Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1890-1893
  7. Ministry and Oversight Minutes, 1903-1960

    Tecumseh Friends Church:
  8. Women's Foreign Missionary Society Minutes, 1891-1898
  9. Women's Foreign Missionary Society Minutes, 1898-1907
  10. Women's Foreign Missionary Society Minutes, 1907-1944