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Subject: QUAKERS MM OH/PA /NC/IN dates info # 20
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 07:48:16 EDT
Info from ancestry.com subscription site - reference below
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Vol. 4
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy: Ohio
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The first Friends moved into eastern Ohio in September, 1800. In less than one
year Friends so increased that two preparative meetings were established and
on December 19, 1801, Concord Monthly Meeting was opened, consisting of the
two preparative meetings at Concord and Short Creek. These first preparative
meetings were branches of Westland Monthly Meeting, Pa., and the first monthly
meeting was a branch of Redstone QM, Pennsylvania. The stream of emigrants
seemed unending and soon there were Friends communities in Belmont, Jefferson,
Harrison, Columbiana, Morgan and Washington Counties. Early in 1804 these
meetings began to look to the establishment of a quarterly meeting. Their
request was granted by the yearly meeting in 1806 and Short Creek QM convened
for the first time on June 6, 1807.
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In the latter part of 1799 some families of friends from Bush River MM, South
Carolina, settled near the present site of Waynesville. Some months later a
group of Friends arrived from Hopewell MM, Va., and during the same year, a
few from North Carolina. Other Friends continued to arrive and a volunteer
meeting for worship was established April 26, 1801, at Waynesville. Twelve
families were represented in the meeting. All of these members were certified
to Westland Monthly Meeting, Western Pennsylvania. This meeting was recognized
by Westland MM, December 26, 1801, and Miami MM was established October 13,
1803. From this nucleus developed the meetings of Ohio west of the Hocking
River, including what later became West Branch QM to the north and Whitewater
QM in eastern Indiana, as well as all the friends meetings in Indiana and
farther west.
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When Ohio Yearly Meeting was organized in 1813, it consisted of the following
Monthly Meetings: Westland and Redstone in southwestern Pennsylvania and Short
Creek, Concord, Plymouth, Plainfield, Stillwater, Middleton, Salem, New
Garden, West Branch, Mill Creek, Elk, Miami, Caesar's Creek, Fall Creek,
Fairfield, Center, Darby Creek and Clear Creek in Ohio. In 1815 all these
Monthly Meetings were still in existence with the addition of Union,
Marlborough and Cincinnati. In 1822 we find Providence Monthly Meeting in
addition to the two southwestern Pennsylvania. In Ohio, the following Monthly
Meetings, in addition to the ones already named, had been established; Carmel,
Sandy Spring, Smithfield, Flushing, Somerset, Lee's Creek, Newberry,
Springfield, Green Plain, Alum Creek, and Westfield. These were all in
existence before the opening of Indiana Yearly Meeting in 1821 after which
those in western and southern Ohio were attached to Indiana Yearly Meeting.
However, they were all located within the limits of the state of Ohio.
Beginning with 1809 (White Water) several monthly meetings were established in
Indiana by Baltimore and Ohio Yearly Meetings. These meetings were transferred
to Indiana Yearly Meeting in 1821.
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In 1826, two years before the Separation (Hicksite), the names of Monthly
Meetings belonging to Ohio Yearly Meeting were, Westland, Redstone,
Smithfield, Short Creek, Mount Pleasant, Concord, Flushing, Middleton, Salem,
Upper Springfield, Marlborough, Stillwater, Plainfield, Somerset, Ridge, New
Garden, Elk Run and Carmel. In the same year the names of the Monthly Meetings
in Ohio belonging to Indiana Yearly Meeting were Miami, West Branch, Center,
Fairfield, Elk, Caesar's Creek, Mill Creek, Fall Creek, Goshen (name changed
from Darby Creek in 1824), Clear Creek, Union, Cincinnati, Newberry, Lee's
Creek, Springfield, Alum Creek, Green Plain, Westfield, Springboro and Dover
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At the time of the two major separations in Ohio, the Hicksite in 1828 and the
Wilburite or Conservative in 1854, some monthly meetings were divided, each
claiming to be the legal Friends meetingk and in some instances the meeting as
a whole joined in the separation movement. This was true for the state as a
whole in 1828, but the Conservative separation only included the territory
within the field of Ohio Yearly Meeting. In 1832 the following Hicksite
Monthly Meetings were in existence in the state: Short Creek, Concord,
Smithfield, Flushing, Salem, Middleton, Stillwater, Plainfield, Deerfield,
Somerset, New Garden, Carmel and Marlborough in Ohio Yearly Meeting, and
Miami, Springborough, Cincinnati, Green Plain, Goshen, Center, Fall Creek,
Alum Creek, Westfield and Elk in Indiana Yearly Meeting.
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The largest collection of meeting records within the limits of Ohio is to be
found in the library of Wilmington College. These are records of meetings
belonging to Wilmington Yearly Meeting. Some are still held within the limits
of their respective monthly meetings. The Library of the Ohio State
Archealogical and Historical Society has a few books of records of meetings in
Wilmington Yearly Meeting.
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The minutes of the monthly meetings in Ohio belonging to Indiana Yearly
Meeting (Orthodox) are to be found in their respective meetings or in the
Yearly Meeting vault at Richmond, Indiana.
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