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Subject: QUAKERS MM OH/PA /NC/IN dates info # 23
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:24:43 EDT
Info from ancestry.com subscription site - reference below
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Vol. 4
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy: Ohio
[p.1387] INDEX
The first Friends migrating to Ohio became members of Hopewell Monthly
Meeting, Virginia, and a little later of Westland or Redstone Monthly
Meetings, Pennsylvania until they could establish meetings of their own. As
Monthly Meetings were established in Ohio these Friends automatically became
members of the new meetings within whose territories they happened to reside.
No certificates of transfer were issued and no 11st of names was entered in
the records of either meeting. Similarly, when an Ohio Meeting was divided to
set up a new Monthly Meeting, the membership was divided according to place of
residence and no list of members of the new meeting was entered in the records
of either meeting. The names of persons who became members of new meetings in
this way will disappear from the records of the parent meeting but may be
followed to the records of any new meeting in which they may appear by
reference to the family name index at the end of the book.
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Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy: Ohio
SEWICKLEY MEETING
page 134
A deed dated December 12, 1832 records the donation of land by James McGrew:
James McGrew willed to the Society of Friends, April 11, 1805, seven acres of
land in Sewickley Township for a meeting house and burial ground. From 1799
until 1805 meetings were conducted in members homes. In the latter year, a one
room log house was erected. Part of the surrounding seven acres was plotted as
a graveyard. By 1893 the meeting declined in membership to the extent that
only a few members were left. A deed dated March 16, 1893 says, The Society
of Friends, Sewickley Township, sold to J. M. Guffey of Pittsburgh, Alleghany
County, the coal under the seven acres of ground for $628.75. Another deed
dated June 6, 1907, states that the Society of Friends, Sewickley Township,
sold to Salem (Ohio) Monthly Meeting the seven acres of ground in their
possession.
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[p.137] CONCORD MONTHLY MEETING
page 136
There is a tradition that at Concord (Colerain) a group assembled first on the
trunk of a fallen tree, then were invited to the newly erected cabin of
Jonathan Taylor, and later moved to a log meeting house. 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,
1800, Concord Monthly Meeting was opened.
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Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy: Ohio
[p.167] SHORT CREEK MONTHLY MEETING
page 166
Short Creek Monthly Meeting was established in Jefferson County, Ohio, 3rd Mo.
17th, 1804, by Redstone Quarterly Meeting. It had been a preparative meeting
under Concord Monthly Meeting. Short Creek Monthly Meeting was made up of
Short Creek and Plymouth Preparative Meetings. Short Creek Monthly Meeting
established a meeting for worship called Cross Creek on 6th Mo. 16th, 1804,
and this was made a preparative meeting 4th Mo. 20th, 1805 and West Grove
Meeting for worship was established 2nd Mo. 20th, 1808. Short Creek Monthly
Meeting was divided 2nd Mo. 24th, 1915, Mt. Pleasant and Long Run Preparative
Meetings becoming Mt. Pleasant Monthly Meeting and West Grove and Georgetown
Preparative Meetings constituting Short Creek Monthly Meeting.
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Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy: Ohio
[p.317] PLAINFIELD MONTHLY MEETING
page 316
Plainfield Monthly Meeting, Belmont County, Ohio, was set off from Concord
Monthly Meeting, 3rd Mo. 26th, 1828, by Short Creek Quarterly Meeting and was
composed of Plainfield and Flushing Preparative Meetings.
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Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy: Ohio
[p.461] PLYMOUTH-SMITHFIELD MONTHLY MEETING
page 460
Plymouth-Smithfield Monthly Meeting, located in Jefferson County, Ohio, was
organized as early as 1802. The first meetings were held in the private
residences of members until about 1804 when a log building was erected. This
was used until 1813 when a substantial brick building took its place.
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[p.507] FLUSHING MONTHLY MEETING
page 506
Flushing Monthly Meeting, Belmont County, Ohio, was set up 10th Mo. 23rd,
1818, by Plainfield Monthly Meeting. It was composed of Flushing, Nottingham,
Bushy Fork, Westchester, Lower Flushing and Guernsey Preparative Meetings. In
1817, Nottingham Preparative Meeting built a large, brick house, planned for a
quarterly meeting house and the name was changed from Nottingham to Freeport.
Among early ministers at Flushing were Jacob Branson and Abigail Branson;
other ministers in the limits of the monthly meeting were Joseph Cadwallader
and Israel Wilson. Henry Carver, Jr. and Ann Strahl were the first to marry in
Flushing Monthly Meeting, 12th Mo. 25th, 1818.
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