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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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