Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Mt. Pleasant/Damascus, Ohio) records
Collection Overview
Abstract
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.
(Note: This finding aid contains collection- and series-level descriptions for the Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Mt. Pleasant/Damascus, Ohio) records. For the full collection inventory, see the order of microfilming available on our legacy finding aids site.)
Dates
- Creation: 1760-1965
Extent
34 Reels
Creator
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Friends Church (Evangelical : 1854-1971) (Organization)
- Evangelical Friends Church, Eastern Region (1971-) (Organization)
Scope and Contents
(Note: This finding aid contains collection- and series-level descriptions for the Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Mt. Pleasant/Damascus, Ohio) records. For the full collection inventory, see the order of microfilming available on our legacy finding aids site.)
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 mothers' 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.
This finding aid contains collection- and series-level descriptions for the Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Mt. Pleasant/Damascus, Ohio) records. For the full collection inventory, see the order of microfilming available on our legacy finding aids site.
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends
- Alum Creek, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
- Cleveland, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
- New Garden, Ohio Quarterly Metting of Friends
- Damascus, Ohio Quarterly Meeting of Friends
- Salem, Ohio Quarterly Meeting
- Goshen, Ohio Quarterly Meeting
- Short Creek, Ohio Quarterly Meeting
- Adrian, Michigan Quarterly Meeting
Conditions Governing Access
No known access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Researchers using this collection assume full responsibility for conforming to the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright, and are responsible for securing permissions necessary for publication or reproduction.
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
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.
Processing Information
The collection and finding aid were prepared by Stephen M. Charter and Stephen C. Young in June 1987.
Other Finding Aids
This finding aid contains collection- and series-level descriptions for the Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Mt. Pleasant/Damascus, Ohio) records. For the full collection inventory, see the order of microfilming available on our legacy finding aids site.
Subject
- Title
- Guide to the Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Mt. Pleasant/Damascus, Ohio) records
- Author
- Stephen M. Charter, Stephen C. Young, Haley Hoffman, Nick Pavlik
- Date
- 1987, 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin