Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends Records
Scope and Contents
Records of the Ohio and Indiana Yearly Meetings deposited in the collections of Friends Historical Library. Primarily include those of the Hicksite and Wilburite branches and their predecessors, but some Gurneyite materials are resprented in the collections as well.
Dates
- Creation: 1755-1956
Creator
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1921) (Organization)
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) (Organization)
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Friends Church (Evangelical : 1854-1971) (Organization)
- Indiana Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1821-1828) (Organization)
Language of Materials
These records are entirely in English
Limitations on Accessing the Collection
Where available, access is through microfilm.
Copyright and Rights Information
Information on reproduction policies available in the library.
Biographical / Historical
The Ohio Yearly Meeting was set off from Baltimore Yearly Meeting in 1812 for Friends west of the Allegheny Mountains (including Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana). It opened in 1813 at Short Creek in Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Indiana Yearly Meeting was set off in 1821, composed of Friends in the states of Indiana, Illinois, and the western part of Ohio.
Ohio Yearly Meeting separated into Hicksite and Orthodox branches in 1828, and Congregational/Progressive meetings split off in 1850-1852. In 1854, the Orthodox branch further divided into Wilburite and Gurneyite sections. Members of nine particular Wilburite meetings split off in 1862-63 and formed the Ohio General Meeting of Men and Women Friends. The Hicksite branch of Ohio Yearly Meeting stopped holding business sections in 1919, and by the 1940s, it had laid down all of its constituent meetings.
Extent
42 Linear Feet
Arrangement
Divided into series by meeting name.
Physical Location
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Custodial History
Most of the Hicksite records were transferred by the Executive Committee of Ohio Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) to FHL after 1919. Concord Monthly Meeting records were deposited by Theorora Wieneke in 1983. Freeport records were deposited by Austin G. Evans in 1946.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposits, 1919-1983
Subject
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1921) (Organization)
- Beaver Falls Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : New Brighton, Pa.) (Organization)
- Beaver Falls Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : New Brighton, Pa.) (Organization)
- Carmel Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : Rogers, Ohio) (Organization)
- Center Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Wilburite : Grindstone, Pa.) (Organization)
- Concord Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : Colerain, Ohio) (Organization)
- Cope’s Run Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : Westville, Ohio) (Organization)
- Deer Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : Limaville, Ohio) (Organization)
- Dover Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : Wilmington, Ohio) (Organization)
- Freeport Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : Freeport, Ohio) (Organization)
- Green Plain Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : Selma, Ohio) (Organization)
- Grove Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : Winona, Ohio) (Organization)
- Middleton Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : Crestview, Ohio) (Organization)
- New Garden Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : Winona, Ohio) (Organization)
- New Garden Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox : Winona, Ohio) (Organization)
- Plainfield Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : Saint Clairsville, Ohio) (Organization)
- Providence Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Wilburite : Perryopolis, Pa.) (Organization)
- Providence Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Wilburite : Perryopolis, Pa.) (Organization)
- Redstone Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : Brownsville, Pa.) (Organization)
- Redstone Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Gurneyite : Brownsville, Pa.) (Organization)
- Redstone Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox : Brownsville, Pa.) (Organization)
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1921). Redstone Quarterly Meeting (Organization)
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) (Organization)
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1854). Redstone Quarterly Meeting (Organization)
- Saint Clairsville Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : Saint Clairsville, Ohio) (Organization)
- Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : Salem, Ohio) (Organization)
- Salem Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : Salem, Ohio) (Organization)
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1921). Salem Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Organization)
- Sandy Creek Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox : Mercer, Pa.) (Organization)
- Sandy Hill Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox : Uniontown, Pa.) (Organization)
- Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Wilburite : Hanoverton, Ohio) (Organization)
- Sewickley Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Wilburite : Herminie, Pa.) (Organization)
- Sewickly Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Wilburite : Herminie, Pa) (Organization)
- Short Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : Emerson, Ohio) (Organization)
- Short Creek Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : Emerson, Ohio) (Organization)
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1921). Short Creek Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Organization)
- Stillwater Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : Belmont County, Ohio) (Organization)
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1921). Stillwater Quarterly Meeting (Organization)
- West Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : Westville, Ohio) (Organization)
- Western Quarterly Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : Winona, Ohio) (Organization)
- Westland Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : Centerville, Pa.) (Organization)
- Westland Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Gurneyite : Centerville, Pa) (Organization)
- Westland Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Wilburite : Centerville, Pa.) (Organization)
- Westland Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Wilburite : Centerville, Pa.) (Organization)
- General Meeting of Friends of Ohio (Society of Friends : Maulite : Chesterhill, Ohio) (Organization)
- Indiana Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1821-1828) (Organization)
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Friends Church (Evangelical : 1854-1971). Redstone Quarterly Meeting (Organization)
- Ohio Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1813-1828). Redstone Quarterly Meeting (Organization)
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Redstone Quarterly Meeting (Organization)
- Title
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends Records
- Author
- Inventory prepared by: FHL Staff
- Date
- 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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