An introduction to Quaker genealogy.

1. FRIENDLY RESEARCH An Introduction to Quaker Genealogical Research With Bibliographies of Primary, Secondary & Internet Resources Companion CD-Rom to the printed Pathfinder Karen S. Campbell, Genealogy Librarian Ohioana Room The Mary L. Cook Public Library © The Mary L. Cook Public Library , 2008

2. The publication of the pathfinder, Friendly Research , was in 2005. It is meant to be an aid to researchers using the resources of the Ohioana Room in The Mary L. Cook Public Library and other local facilities to find their Quaker ancestors in southwest Ohio. This CD-Rom is a companion to the book. The information contained in the pathfinder (hardcopy) also includes comprehensive bibliographies and a list of the major Quaker repositories and resource sites worldwide with Internet links.

3. Friendly Research CD-Rom has a companion CD-Rom: THE QUAKERS IN SOUTHWEST OHIO A Pioneering Journey of Faith & Moral Principle Against Slavery by Karen S. Campbell, Genealogy Librarian Topics covered : John Woolman, Zechariah Dix, Thomas Beals, the Great Migration from the south to the Northwest Territory , the structure of The Society of Friends , The Testimonies of The Society of Friends , the Settlement of Waynesville, Ohio, the Establishment of Miami Monthly Meeting , old and new maps, Quaker schisms ( Hicksite and Orthodox , Gurneyite and Wilburite , Anti-Slavery and Progressive ), the “ genealogy ” of Quaker Yearly Meetings, and, different types of Quakers in southwest Ohio.

4. Book : Friendly Research Pathfinder $15.00 Companion CD-Roms : The Quakers in Southwest Ohio $5.00 Friendly Research $5.00

5. Karen S. Campbell, Genealogy Librarian Ohioana Room The Mary L. Cook Public Library 381 Old Stage Road Waynesville, Ohio 45068 1-513-897-4826 http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us [email_address]

6. An old saying in family history research is that “ All genealogy is local .” One can say the same thing about The Society of Friends , too. “ All Quaker history and genealogy is local ”. Slide #1 ~ Photograph of the “ White Brick ” Friends Meetinghouse On Quaker Hill. Built in 1811. A Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly Meetinghouse Waynesville, Ohio

7. The Quakers ( The Society of Friends ) are not: SHAKERS AMISH

8. An introduction to Quakerism online is http://www.quaker.org , the official web site of The Society of Friends . It covers history, literature, genealogy, organizations, modern issues, and many other topics. Other good sites are: • http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/quakerism , Quakerism-Suite 101.com. A good introduction. • http://people.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/~ubcg09q/dmr/intro.htm , “ The Quakers in Brief ” : An excellent introduction to Quakerism by David M. Murray-Rust of the Birkenhead Meeting , Merseyside, England. This booklet online covers the time period from 1650 to 1990. • http://www.strecorsoc.org/gfox/ , The Journal of George Fox , Rufus M. Jones, editor. • http://www.strecorsoc.org/gfox/gf_index.html , A Guide to The Journal of George Fox . • http://www.afsc.org/qic.htm , Quaker Information Center located at Friends Center in Philadelphia. • http://www.afsc.org/ , American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization, which includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. Its work is based on the Quaker belief in the worth of every person, and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice.

9. • http://fwccworld.org/ , Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) is the international Friends organization, which works with all the Yearly Meetings of Quakers worldwide. FWCC exists to facilitate communication and understanding among Friends. • http://www.haverford.edu/library/fha/fha.html , The Friends Historical Association is an association devoted to the study, preservation and publication of material relating to the history of The Religious Society of Friends . Founded in Philadelphia in 1873, FHA has become an organization that is international in membership and interests and which anyone, Friend or not, is invited to join. The Annual Meeting in the fall, and an historical pilgrimage in the spring to an area associated with the history of Quakerism are important activities of the Association. • http://www.qis.net/~daruma/index.html , George Amoss’s Quaker Electronic Archive & Meeting Place . This site, the first general-purpose Quaker archive on the Internet, contains Quaker writings and other documents such as minutes and resource guides, as well as a message board and chat rooms in which Friends and friends are welcome to meet and worship together. The archive offers a keyword search function, and links to other sites of interest to Friends are also provided. • http://www.qhpress.org/texts/index.html , Quaker Historical Texts (Larry and Licia Kuenning) • http://www.strecorsoc.org/web_ring/quakrweb.html , Quaker Web Ring.

10. The “ Genealogy ” of Local Yearly Meetings in Southwestern Ohio: As the pioneer Friends moved west into the Northwest Territory , their meetings were established through Redstone Quarterly Meeting in Brownsville, Fayette Co., in southwestern Pennsylvania, which was one of the Quarterly Meetings of Baltimore Yearly Meeting . Baltimore Yearly Meeting had been founded in 1672, one of the earliest Yearly Meetings in America. The name of this Yearly Meeting also changed over the years. It was first known as West River Yearly Meeting , then in 1763 it was renamed Maryland Yearly Meeting . After 1790 it became known as The Yearly Meeting of Friends held in Baltimore for the Western-shore of Maryland and the Adjacent Parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia . In 1844 Virginia Yearly Meeting , which had been founded in 1673 was “ laid down ” and its monthly meetings were united with those of Baltimore Yearly Meeting . In 1813, because of the increasingly large settlement of Quakers in Ohio, Ohio Yearly Meeting was established by Baltimore Yearly Meeting and this new Yearly Meeting had jurisdiction over the meetings in Ohio, western Pennsylvania and Indiana. In 1814 the Ohio Yearly Meetinghouse was built in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, Jefferson County. It was the first yearly meetinghouse built west of the Alleghenies. It has the seating capacity of 2000 people. It has a balcony and the building can be divided by a huge wooden screen into two equal sections for men and women’s business meetings. The 1814 Ohio Yearly Meetinghouse is now a historical site administered by the Ohio Historical Society . Mt. Pleasant, Ohio

11. http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/places/ne05/

13. http://users.1st.net/gudzent/index.html

14. The town of Mt. Pleasant became prosperous and peaceful up until the Hicksite Schism when in 1828 the Orthodox Friends tried to bar the Hicksite Friends from the meetinghouse. In a violent reaction, a number of Friends were hurt. For a while, three Quaker traditions held meeting in the yearly meetinghouse: The Orthodox Gurneyites , the Wilburites (Conservative) and the Hicksites . Mt. Pleasant was a center for the abolition movement during the antebellum period. It was a station on the Underground Railroad . Here The Philanthropist was published as well as the Genius of Universal Emancipation . In 1837 Mount Pleasant Friends founded a boarding school near the Yearly Meetinghouse. It burned down in 1875. See the following web sites for more information: • http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maggieoh/quaker.html Route of Carolina Quakers into Eastern Ohio Mt. Pleasant Quaker Boarding School

15. WHAT KIND OF QUAKER WERE YOUR QUAKERS?

17. o Indiana Yearly Meeting ( Orthodox ) experienced a schism in 1843 with the founding of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Anti-Slavery Friends . It was laid down in 1857. o Indiana Yearly Meeting ( Hicksite ) experienced a schism 1843-1848 when Green Plain Monthly Meeting in Selma, Greene County, Ohio called for a separation from Indiana Yearly Meeting ( Hicksite ) over the issue of slavery and what to do about it. The new yearly meeting was named, “ Green Plain Yearly Meeting of Congregational Friends ”. THE PURPOSE OF KNOWNING ABOUT ALL THESE 19 TH CENTURY SCHISMS, IS TO KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE MEETING RECORDS. YOU MUST TRACE YOUR ANCESTORS TO THE MEETINGS THEY BELONGED TO AS THEY PIONEERED WEST. AND , THEN DURING CONTROVERSIES, MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OFTENED MOVED FROM ONE GROUP TO ANOTHER, I.E. HICKSITES WHO “ CAME OUT OF ” THEIR MEETINGS TO START THE PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS.

20. Quaker Collection, Everett L. Cattell Library, Malone College, Canton, Ohio http://www.malone.edu/1288 (Has been moved. See below). The Malone College Quaker Collection of The Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Quaker) records were transferred for microfilming to the Center for Archival Collections at Bowling Green University , Ohio, in April 1987, with the assistance of Malone College personnel. http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/ms0492.html The collection is comprised of 266 record books that 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. This is the official repository of the Evangelical Friends Church, Eastern Region . Bowling Green is part of the Ohio network of eight American History Research Centers affiliated with the State Archives. http://www.ohiohistory.org/lgr/networkl.html Records at Bowling Green University ~ Jerome Library • [Microform] / Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends, 1760-1965

21. Wilmington Yearly Meeting Wilmington Yearly Meeting was set off from the Orthodox branch of the Indiana Yearly Meeting in 1892 and united with Friendsville, Tennessee Quarterly Meeting , which transferred from North Carolina Yearly Meeting in 1897. An excellent resource for learning about Wilmington Yearly Meeting is Claiming Our Past: Quakers in Southwest Ohio and Eastern Tennessee by D. Neil Snarr and Associates. Wilmington Yearly Meeting is a member of the Friends United Meeting (FUM). The WYM web site is: http://www.geocities.com/wilmingtonquaker/ . The records for both the Wilmington Yearly Meeting and the Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting ( the old Indiana Yearly Meeting Hicksite , are located in the Watson Library at Wilmington College. Special Collections Policies : http://www.watsonlibrary.org/specialcollections/special_coll.html

22. Clinton County Genealogical & Historical Societies at the Rombach Place Museum 149 E. Locust St. Wilmington, OH 45177 (937) 382-4684, Fax (937) 382-5634 [email_address] http://www.clintoncountyhistory.org/ Under the terms of a joint operating agreement, the Wilmington College Archives & Quaker Collection and the Clinton County Historical Society share the responsibility for genealogy inquiries. The Historical Society acts as a clearinghouse to assess each question and provides a response or referral. Wilmington College accepts questions on referral, and supports the work of the Historical Society's volunteer genealogy researchers. Paid professional research assistance is also available through the Historical Society .

23. The Quaker Collection in Special Collections Wilmington College S. Arthur Watson Library Pyle Box 1227 251 Ludovic Street Wilmington, Ohio 45177 (937) 382-6661 or 1-800-341-9318 http://www.wilmington.edu/LIBRARYspcol.htm Contact the Clinton County, Ohio Historical Society for all genealogical requests. The Quaker Collection contains approximately 7,000 volumes, ca. 1800-present. The collection includes bound periodicals, several hundred pamphlets, tracts, and rare books, and a small collection of books for children and young adults. About 4,000 volumes comprise the circulating collection, covering all aspects of Quaker history, philosophy, thought, and practice. Most titles may circulate for three weeks. The Quaker Collection also holds current subscriptions to 40 Quaker periodicals and newsletters and retains the published minutes of various Yearly Meetings throughout the United States. Generally, these items do not circulate. Minutes of Wilmington Yearly Meeting of Friends & Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting .

24. Area Quaker History Online Resources Provided by Thomas C. Hill: http://www2.wilmington.edu/academics/ThomasC.HillsAreaQuakerHistoryResources.cfm Watson Library Quaker Collections : This page features links to full-text documents selected from the Quaker Rare or other Quaker collections in the Watson Library, Wilmington College (Oh). These documents are made available because of their importance, rarity, or popularity with researchers. http://www2.wilmington.edu/academics/QuakerOnlineResourcesfromWatson.cfm

25. Indiana Yearly Meeting ( http://www.iym.org/ ) is affiliated with Friends United Meeting (FUM). The records of Indiana Yearly Meeting ( FUM ) are housed in the Friend’s Collection and College Archives of Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. This Quaker archive also houses the records of Western Yearly Meeting . http://www.earlham.edu/library/content/friends/index.html Friends Collection at Earlham http://www.earlham.edu/library/documents/genealogy.pdf Genealogy at Earlham Dr. Thomas Hamm, Archivist, Professor of History

26. Dr. Thomas D. Hamm is archivist for the Friends Collection and professor of history at Earlham College . His many works include: • The Anti-Slavery Movement in Henry County, Indiana • A Centennial Landmark: The History of the New Castle (Indiana) Friends Meeting, 1881-1981 , co-authors, Thomas D . Hamm and Wilma L. Kern. • Earlham College : A History, 1847-1997, Thomas D . Hamm with the assistance of Jason Alberts. • God's Government Begun: The Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, 1842-1846 • Marcus Mote and Eli Harvey: Two Quaker Artists from Southwest Ohio • Morgan County, Indiana Cemetery Inscriptions • The Quakers in America • SpiceLore: Stories, Tales, and Memories of Spiceland, Indiana edited by Thomas D . Hamm for the Spiceland Preservation and Tourism Society. • SpiceLore II: More Stories, Tales, and Memories of Spiceland, Indiana edited by Thomas D . Hamm for the Spiceland Preservation and Tourism Society. • Springboro Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) [and pre-Separation], Warren County Ohio, Abstracts of Records, 1824-1917. • The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 1800-1907

27. Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana 801 National Road West · Richmond, Indiana 47374-4095 Friends Collection and College Archives Thomas D. Hamm, College Archivist and Curator of the Friends Collection & Professor of History [email_address] ; voice: (765) 983-1511 WHAT CAN BE FOUND AT EARLHAM : Earlham College is the repository for all the records of Indiana Yearly Meeting (FUM) and Western Yearly Meeting (FUM), which had been set off from IYM (FUM) in 1858. http://www.earlham.edu/library/content/friends/manuscripts/index.html Manuscript Collections http://www.earlham.edu/library/content/friends/meetings/index.html Indiana Yearly Meeting Archives http://www.earlham.edu/library/content/friends/meetings/index.html Western Yearly Meeting Archives http://www.iym.org/ Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends http://www.westernym.net/ Western yearly Meeting of Friends

28. American Friend Obituary Index This index of obituaries and death notices in the American Friend was compiled between 1996 and 1999 by Thomas D. Hamm. http://www.earlham.edu/library/content/friends/obituaries/index.html

29. Primary Sources: Things to Know about Monthly Meeting Record Keeping THE KEY TO QUAKER GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH IS FINDING YOUR ANCESTOR’S MONTHLY MEETING AND ITS RECORDS As with all genealogical endeavors, start by making a study of your own immediate family. If you are no longer Quaker, your family will probably still be aware of having Quaker roots. Family stories and legends are good starting points although they must be confirmed with credible proof. The stories can give you some clues to where your Quaker ancestors lived. Perusal of local county histories and atlases can help you pin point where they lived and local meetinghouses. See, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohwarren/Beers/IV/way/0568.htm Remember that some old meetinghouses may no longer be extant and/or have been torn down.

32. • Stephen B. Weeks. Southern Quakers And Slavery . Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1896. • Errol T. Elliott. Quakers On The American Frontier . Friends United Press • Clayton Terrell. Quaker Migration To Southwest Ohio . Published by C. Clayton Terrell, 1967. • Quaker Historical Collections: Springfield Friends Meeting, 1809-1981. Near Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio. Wilmington, Ohio: The Ames Printing Shop, 1959. • Neil D. Snarr and Associates. Claiming Our Past: Quakers In Southwest Ohio And Eastern Tennessee. Sabina, Ohio: Gaskins Printing, 1992. Quakers have always been pioneers, literally and spiritually. Friends often moved many times and migrated west. Friends who settled in the mid-west came from the east coast and their ancestors came from somewhere in Great Britain. The story of a Quaker family is usually a story of a journey. For Friends in the mid-west research the migration movements of Quakers from the east and the south into the Northwest Territory (Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia) at the turn of the 19th century. Knowing something about their journey will help you pin point the county and township of major Quaker settlements. Excellent sources for this are:

33. A researcher can track a Quaker family’s movement through the recording of “ Certificates of Removal ” from one meeting to another. After a committee’s investigation, their original meeting’s recording clerk would write a short minute stating that the family or the individual was a member is good standing of The Society of Friends . They would take the written minute with them to their new meeting where it would be recorded in the minutes. The migration of the family would be recorded in both meetings’ minutes and gives the dates of the recordings (the date that the “ Certificate of Removal ” letter was written by the clerk and the date it was recorded in the new meeting). Modern “ Recording Clerks ” often use computers.

34. If your ancestor moved to a preparative Meeting of their Monthly Meeting, this does not constitute a move requiring a certificate of removal . If a Hicksite Quaker moved from Miami Monthly Meeting in Waynesville to Harveysburg, they would attend the Hicksite Preparative Meeting (known as Grove Meeting ) in Harveysburg. Their records would be found under Miami Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). Miami Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) Waynesville, Ohio Grove Meeting in Harveysburg and cemetery Information about Quakers who attended Grove Meeting will be found in the records of Miami Monthly Meeting. Grove is a subordinate meeting to Miami Monthly.

38. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting ~ Arch Street Indiana Yearly Meeting Hicksite Yearly Meetinghouse, now the Wayne Co., Indiana Historical Museum in Richmond, Indiana

39. Example of the Minutes of Indiana Yearly Meeting’s “ Meeting for Sufferings ”, the Executive Committee of the Yearly Meeting.

42. Quaker Maps 1853 Map of Indiana Yearly Meeting by Marcus Mote

44. MEETINGS IN SW OHIO ~ ACTIVE WILMINGTON YEARLY MEETING ( Friends United Meeting ) http:// www.wilmingtonyearlymeeting.org / Wilmington Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Wilmington College ~ Pyle Center Box 1194, 251 Ludovic St. (Offices at Rooms 1 & 3 Kelly Center ) Wilmington, Ohio 45177-2443 937-382-2491 MIAMI CENTER QUARTER: Ada Chapel ~ Wilmington, Ohio Campus Monthly Meeting ~ Wilmington College Cincinnati Monthly Meeting (Hamilton County) Community Monthly Meeting (Hamilton County) Chester Monthly Meeting (Clinton County) Cuba Monthly Meeting (Clinton County) Dover Monthly Meeting (Clinton County) Eastern Hills Friends Meeting (Hamilton County) Jamestown Monthly Meeting (Greene County) New Burlington Monthly Meeting (Greene County) Sabina Monthly Meeting (Clinton County) Springfield Monthly Meeting (Clinton County) Wilmington Friends Meeting (Clinton County) Xenia Monthly Meeting (Greene County)

45. MEETINGS IN SW OHIO ~ ACTIVE WILMINGTON YEARLY MEETING (Con’t.) ( Friends United Meeting ) http:// www.wilmingtonyearlymeeting.org / FAIRFIELD QUARTER: Centerfield Monthly Meeting (Highland County) Fairview Monthly Meeting (Clinton County) Fall Creek Monthly Meeting (Highland County) Hardins Creek Monthly Meeting (Highland County) Highland Monthly Meeting (Highland County) Leesburg Monthly Meeting ~ Fairfield (Highland County) Londonderry Monthly Meeting ~ Ross County Newberry Monthly Meeting ~ Martinsville Meeting (Clinton County) Samantha Monthly Meeting ~ Clear Creek (Highland County) Valley Monthly Meeting (Vinton County) Westboro Monthly Meeting (Clinton County)

46. OHIO VALLEY YEARLY MEETING ( Friends General Conference ) http:// www.quaker.org/ovym / P.O. Box 1333 Richmond, Indiana 47374 (The old Indiana Yearly Meeting ~ Hicksite ) Active in SW Ohio Miami Quarter: Campus Monthly Meeting ~ Wilmington College Community Monthly Meeting (Hamilton County) Dayton Friends Meeting (Dayton, Ohio) Eastern Hills Friends Meeting (Hamilton County) Miami Monthly Meeting (Waynesville, Warren Co.,Ohio ) Oxford Friends Meeting (Oxford, Ohio) Yellow Springs Friends Meeting

47. HISTORICAL MEETINGS No longer active in SW Ohio Caesar's Creek Monthly Meeting (Warren County) Center Meeting (Clinton County, Ohio) Grassy Run Meeting (Clinton County, Ohio) Green Plain Meetinghouses in Selma (Clark County) Meetinghouses in Harveysburg: Grove & Harveysburg Springboro Monthly (Warren County) Spring Valley Monthly Meeting (Greene County)

48. INDIANA YEARLY MEETING (Friends General Conference) http://www.iym.org/ 4715 North Wheeling Avenue Muncie, Indiana 47304-1222 765-284-6900 1-800-292-5238 Active in SW Ohio Center Friends (Miami County) Englewood Friends (Montgomery County) West Elkton Friends (Preble County) West Milton Friends (Miami County) (Could not find a link)

49. MODERN MAPS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE MARY L. COOK PUBLIC LIBRARY WEBSITE WHICH SHOW WHERE ALL THE FRIENDS MEETINGS MENTIONED IN " MONTHLY MEETINGS IN NORTH AMERICA: A QUAKER INDEX " COMPILED BY THOMAS C. HILL Local Quaker Meetinghouses & Sites (Miami, Montgomery, Greene, Clark Clinton and Warren Counties) PDF File of Map Local Quaker Meetinghouses & Sites in Cincinnati, Ohio & Addresses PDF File of Map Local Quaker Meetinghouses & Sites in Highland County, Ohio PDF File of Map

50. QuakerMeetings.com "Monthly Meetings in North America: A Quaker Index" compiled by Thomas C. Hill A TREMENDOUS RESOURCE http://quakermeetings.com/ (Front Page) http://www.quakermeetings.com/search_form (The search engine) http://www.quakermeetings.com/YearlyMeetings (Everything you will ever want to know about all the Friends Yearly Meetings in North America!!) http://www.quakermeetings.com/DataDefinitions (Definitions) Let’s look at the information for Miami Monthly Meeting here in Waynesville, Ohio.

51. Meeting name: MIAMI (FGC) Website : http:// www.quaker.org/ovym/mi.htm Former meeting names No former names are known State or Province : OHIO County : WARREN Physical location : WAYNESVILLE 45068, 407 W. HIGH Latitude : Longitude : Date granted : 1803/09/05 Date of first meeting : 1803/10/13 Current Status : ACTIVE Before and After : VOLUNTARY 1801/04/26, INDULGED 1802/09/25 UNDER WESTLAND MM. WORSHIP, PM & MM 1803/09/05. Branches [HICKSITE, FGC] AFTER 1828/10/29 Latest yearly meeting : OHIO VALLEY Y.M. Where records are kept : WILMINGTON mf LDS 364704-05, 1630243-44, -49. IND. H.S. F451 Records known extant : OVYM W.C. ARCHIVES: MIN 1803-1951, WOMEN MIN 1803-1859, 1861-1896, BIRTHS AND DEATHS 1754-1934, CEMETERY 1832-1946, MEMB 1803-1843, 1887-1903, 1916-1920, 1937, REMOVALS 1828-1920, MARRIAGES 1804-1928, WOMEN PM 1830-1846, 1859-1893, OVERSEERS 1801-1918, M&E 1853-1906, TREAS 1916-1946, YOUNG FRIENDS 1898-1899, 1915-1927, HISTORY 1803-1928. WYM ARCHIVES: MEMB, BIRTHS & DEATHS 1768-1828, BIRTHS & DEATHS 1822-1828, REMOVALS 1825-1828. CON’T. ON NEXT SLIDE

52. Meeting name: MIAMI (FGC), CON’T. Affiliations REDSTONE Q.M. UNTIL 1809/03/06 MIAMI Q.M. AFTER 1809/05/13 BALTIMORE Y.M. UNTIL 1812 OHIO Y.M. 1813 - 1820 Local-related histories: PROCEEDINGS; CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY, MIAMI MONTHLY MEETING, WAYNESVILLE, OHIO, 10TH MONTH, 16-17, 1903 (1903). Comments : SEE HINSHAW, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY , Vol. V, pp. 17-146. Subordinates ELK PM 1806/12/01-1809 DARBY CREEK PM 1811/02/09-1811/11/09 [LOGAN CTY., OHIO] MOUTH OF TODD'S FORK INDULGED 1807/08/13, BECAME: HOPEWELL PM [ROACHESTER] 1817/03/20-1866/02/10 SPRINGBORO PM 1818/05/09-1824/08/14 GROVE [HARVEYSBURG, OH] INDULGED 1817/01/29 GROVE PM 1823/11/08-1897/06/23 CLEAR CREEK WORSHIP 1870-1895/02/09 [HIGHLAND CTY., OHIO] TODD'S FORK INDULGED 1805/04/11, BECAME CENTER CENTER PM [WILMINGTON] 1864/05/14-1865/05/13 [LAST 2 IN CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO] CINCINNATI VOLUNTARY 1811, PM 1814/02/12-1815/02/1 WILMINGTON INDULGED 1874/02/14-1883/05/23 SALT RUN INDULGED 1826, WORSHIP 1829/11/14-1850/02 IS THIS ALL THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT MIAMI MONTHLY MEETING ? OH, NO!! DON’T FORGET THE SCHISMS!

53. Meeting name: MIAMI (FUM) Former meeting names HARVEYSBURG, INFORMALLY AFTER 1942/07/26 State or Province : OHIO County : WARREN Physical location : HARVEYSBURG 45032, MAPLE ST., AT CLARK Latitude : Longitude : Date granted : 1803/09/05 Date of first meeting : 1803/10/13 Date laid down : 1960/08/13 Date of last meeting : Before and After : MIAMI VOLUNTARY 1801/04/26, INDULGED 1802/09/25, PM [WAYNESVILLE] 1803/10-1942/07/26, HARVEYSBURG PM AFTER 1836/11/06. ATTACHED TO SPRINGFIELD MM? Branches [ORTHODOX, FUM] AFTER 1828/10/29 Latest yearly meeting : WILMINGTON Y.M. Where records are kept : WILMINGTON mf LDS 272166, 364704-05, 477166-70, -75, 559340, 974079, 1020416. IND. H.S. F451 Records known extant : WYM ARCHIVES: MIN 1803-1960, WOMEN MIN 1803-1805, 1828-1887, MEMB, BIRTHS & DEATHS 1768-1865, 1867-1931, BIRTHS & DEATHS 1822-1894, TO 1831, MEMB 1826-1949, REMOVALS 1825-1832, 1856-1896, DISOWN 1829-1833, MARRIAGES 1829-1868, M&O 1836-1846, 1869-1921, HARVEYSBURG PM MIN 1880-1902, MEMB, BIRTHS & DEATHS 1832-1951, 1891, REMOVALS 1902-1952. OVYM ARCHIVES: MIN 1803-1828, WOMEN MIN 1803-1828, BIRTHS & DEATHS 1754-1934, MEMB 1803-1828, MARRIAGES 1804-1828, OVERSEERS 1801-1828. CON’T. ON NEXT SLIDE

54. Meeting name: MIAMI (FUM), CON’T. Affiliations REDSTONE Q.M. UNTIL 1809/03/06 MIAMI Q.M. AFTER 1809/05/13 BALTIMORE Y.M. UNTIL 1812 OHIO Y.M. 1813 - 1820 INDIANA (FUM) Y.M. 1821 - 1891 Local-related histories: PROCEEDINGS; CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY, MIAMI MONTHLY MEETING, WAYNESVILLE, OHIO, 10TH MONTH, 16-17, 1903 (1903). Comments : SEE HINSHAW, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY , Vol. V, pp. 17-146. Subordinates MIAMI PM [WAYNESVILLE] 1803-1942 ELK PM [WEST ELKTON] 1806/12/01-1809 SPRINGBORO INDULGED 1816/04/24, WORSHIP & PM 1818/05/09-1824/08/14 HARVEYSBURG INDULGED 1831/01/26 , PM AFTER 1836/11/06 TURTLE CREEK INDULGED 1806/04/10, WORSHIP 1824/08/ , PM 1859/05/14-1942/05/31 CINCINNATI VOLUNTARY 1811 , PM 1814/02/12-1815/02/11 GROVE INDULGED 1817/01/29, WORSHIP & PM 1823/11/08 SUGAR CREEK INDULGED 1816/12/25, WORSHIP & PM 1822/11/09-1824/08/14 FLAT FORK PM [MASSIE TWP.] 1922/08/12-1942/07/26 HIGHLAND (DAYTON MISSION) PM 1889/08/10-1892/04/20 THE LOCATION AND ROLE OF QUAKER MEETINGHOUSES CAN BE CONFUSING IF YOU DON’T KNOW SOME OF THE HISTORY OF THE MEETING!

55. WHY TRACE THE “ GENEALOGY ” OF THE MEETINGS? What if your great great great grandmother in her journal mentioned that she and her family went to meeting for worship on First Day at Harveysburg meeting but then later in the journal she mentioned that she was a member of Miami Monthly Meeting which is in Waynesville. Which town did she go to meeting? What other question must you ask to know which meetinghouse she attended? Your great great great uncle in his journal mentions that he and his family attend at Turtle Creek Meeting. His great great grandson mentions that his family attended at Flat Fork Meetinghouse. You have looked all over trying to find a monthly meeting by these names but can’t find them. What do you do? You also want to find the meetinghouses or their locations because you might find a meeting cemetery. Frustrated?? Go to: http://harveysburg.blogspot.com/2005/08/quaker-meetinghouses-in-harveysburg.html

56. WHENEVER IN DOUBT ABOUT THE LOCATION OF THE RECORDS OF A SPECIFIC MEETING, USE: QuakerMeetings.com "Monthly Meetings in North America: A Quaker Index" compiled by Thomas C. Hill http:// quakermeetings.com / (Front Page)

57. The local Monthly Meetings are required to deposit their records in a Quaker repository for safekeeping. Such Quaker Archives are usually housed in a local Quaker college or university that has been selected to preserve the minutes of a particular Yearly Meeting and all its subordinate meetings. The earliest original records are found in large ledger books and are hand written. Later records are usually type written. Researchers interested in reading through the original records must contact the Quaker Archive and arrange an appointment with the archivist or curator.

58. Microfilm of Quaker records can be found in colleges and universities and also in the LDS Family History Library and Family History Centers. The unfortunate thing about microfilm is that over time the image fades and the microfilm can become more difficult to read than the originals. A list of what is available through LDS Family History Library is found in the hardcopy of “ Friendly Research .”

59. Unfortunately, there are normally no detailed subject/topic or name indexes to the original handwritten or typed monthly meeting records. You will have to read or scan through the original minutes, which are, of course, in chronological order. Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy is an abstract of the basic vital statistics (birth, marriage, death, burial, and migration from one meeting to another) found in the original monthly meeting minutes. The Encyclopedia does not abstract or index subjects or topics discussed, the appointment of various committees or the appointment of persons to roles of responsibility such as Elders, Overseers and Traveling Ministers at business meetings.

62. If your ancestors married “ outside of unity ” or “ contrary to discipline ” , they were either married by an ordained minister or by a Justice of the Peace . Before the Civil War , when the Friends were still very sectarian, these inter-faith marriages were the biggest cause of disownment . In these cases, you will be able to find their marriage records in another local church’s records as well as county marriage records. In the Quaker minutes you will find the appointment of committees to “ labor ” with the person and their reports back to their business meeting. If the disowned person did not ask for re-admittance to the Society by apologizing for his/her behavior, all recorded entries of him or her after disownment would cease in the meeting minutes. Unlike the Amish, the Quakers did not shun people who were disowned. A shunned person could still attending meeting for worship but could not be involved in business meetings.

64. TYPES OF MONTHLY MEETING RECORDS: Men’s and Women’s Business Meeting Minutes (Monthly Meeting) . Records of the business of the local Meeting. They would cover the following: • Certificates of Removal (Membership) received and issued. • Records of disciplinary actions taken against someone who had violated the Society’s rules. The number of Quakers " disowned " before the Civil War runs into the thousands! • Unfortunately, most Monthly Meetings did not keep rosters of their full membership. It is possible that a person who never moved, never married, who never was in trouble, and wasn’t involved in committee work could have passed his/her days in the Quaker community and be never mentioned in the record.

66. Women Friends of Miami Monthly Meeting are reported dealing with committee reports, with newly convinced Friends who wish to joint the meeting (the children of Sarah Ann Brown), with the business of its preparative meeting ( Grove Preparative Meeting in Harveysburg) and requests from Quaker Ministers to visit other Friends (Friend Rhoda Hocket). Rhoda Hocket

67. Friends are paying bills, planning repairs to the White Brick meetinghouse, appointing committees, making donations and planning a Vacation Bible School in cooperation with Waynesville Methodist Episcopal Church . Raymond Braddock was the Clerk, assisted by Elsie Hockett.

68. Registers of Births and Deaths . Family groups should be listed with parents, births of children with dates and early deaths of children. However, Birth and Death Registers are notoriously incomplete . Sometimes whole families are omitted. Often younger children in a family are never registered. Place of birth was not usually recorded. Some Monthly Meetings listed marriages in the same register. Some had a separate book of the Marriages. If the register for births and deaths has been lost, look through the Monthly Meeting minutes (Men’s and Women’s) to see if any of your ancestors are mentioned doing committee work. Dig into all the records for clues. Quaker graveyards are very simple.

69. Many monthly meetings established Quaker graveyards on their property. The early tradition was not to use grave markers or very simple ones with only initials carved in them. Individuals were buried in the order they died, not by family groups. Records, however, were kept by the monthly meeting of the date the person was buried and in what row and lot. Quaker graveyards were not exclusive and were also open for others to use. In pioneer days, the Quaker cemetery could be the only graveyard in a community. Often indigents and African-Americans were buried there. The Quaker graveyard (actually three graveyards over the years) on Quaker Hill in Waynesville began to be used in 1802 by Friends and the larger community. The first was located where the Orthodox Friends had their burials. Waynesville Friends established another public cemetery (Pottersfield) on their land in 1820 but after one of the bodies was stolen, use of it declined. In 1831, the Hicksite Quakers fenced off the present graveyard. On the next slide is a 1875 map of Waynesville showing Quaker hill and the three above mentioned cemeteries ( Combination Atlas Map of Warren County, Ohio by L. H. Everts, 1875).

70. Cemeteries on Quaker Hill Waynesville, Ohio

71. A Record of Interments in Miami Grave Yard Graveyard on Quaker Hill in Waynesville, Ohio

72. Early Quakers were buried chronologically in rows as they died, not in family groups.

73. Certificates associated with Marriage. A Quaker marriage took place at the bride’s Meeting or at the bride’s home. The groom was required to show a certificate of removal , as if he were joining her Meeting. This process proved that he was a Quaker in good standing at his own Monthly Meeting. Look for his certificate of removal from his home Meeting to be able to get married. Usually the married couple would then move to the husband’s Meeting. Look for their certificate of removal from her Meeting. Search the husband’s Meeting’s records for their surname and list of children .

74. The couple had to approach the Meeting twice, two months in a row, with their intention to marry. They had to go before both the men’s business meeting and the women’s business meeting twice. A “ clearness ” committee was appointed to investigate whether they were both free to marry. The committee would then give their approval or disapproval. When researching, the best and conclusive evidence is the actual date of the marriage ceremony on the certificate itself or found in the separate marriage register. Other dates you might find are: o Date of “ liberation ” (permission) to marry-given usually 1 to 7 days before the nuptials. o Date of second “ declaration of intention ” to marry-expressed from 1 to 14 days before the nuptials. o Date of first “ declaration of intention ” to marry-expressed 4 to 6 weeks before the nuptials. o The date often is found in the Monthly Meeting minutes of the Meeting up to three weeks after the marriage. Records of these proceedings can be found in both the Men’s and Women’s monthly business meetings. When researching, be careful about the dates. It is easy to confuse an " intent to marry " with the actual marriage date .

75. A Quaker Wedding Certificate In the presence of God and these our Friends, I take thee to be my <wife/husband>, promising with Divine assistance to be unto thee a loving and faithful <wife/husband> as long as we both shall live. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting has a good pamphlet online about Quaker marriage: http://www.pym.org/publish/pamphlets/marriage.htm Example : http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~quakers/jackson.htm Some Monthly Meetings kept separate books for Marriages. Sometimes the clerk would copy the whole certificate into the register.

77. OTHER QUAKER RECORDS Publication of Yearly Meeting Minutes. Yearly meetings would go to the expense of publishing their minutes in booklets every year after their sessions were over. Quaker Archives will not only have the original hand written ledgers but also a collection of published yearly booklets, which are a bit easier to read. Yearly Meeting minutes include list of officers and committees of the Yearly Meeting, reports of the actions taken and the treasurer’s reports from the various committees, the epistles written to the Yearly Meeting from other yearly meetings, the collective reflection, or examination of Conscience, on the Testimonies .

78. Note that representatives from Quarterly Meetings and members of committees are listed in the extract of the minutes.

79. Note that there were still separate men’s and women’s business meetings.

80. Minutes also include a census of the yearly meeting.

81. Yearly Meeting minutes include memorials to weighty Friends who died during the year.

82. Lists of the standing committees are found in the Yearly Meeting Minutes

83. Booklets or books that celebrate the founding of a meeting or a specific event : A good example of this is “ Friends Centennial: Miami Monthly Meeting, Waynesville, Ohio, 1803-1903 ” (Waynesville, Ohio: Press of the Miami-Gazette, 1903). This book of the proceedings included most of the presentations given by guest professors and dignitaries during the festivities in October of 1903. It is a good source for meeting history and biographies of “ weighty ” pioneer Friends. This celebration in 1903 was a joint celebration of Miami Monthly Meeting with Friends of both Hicksite and Orthodox traditions participating.

84. Pamphlets: Friends have always been inexhaustible pamphleteers. If one of the addresses at Yearly Meeting was considered worthy, the Meeting for Suffering ( Executive Meeting of Yearly meeting) could approve the publication of the speech in pamphlet form. The proceedings of various associations would also be published separately such as, “ Proceedings of the Indiana First-Day School Association, held at Waynesville, Ohio, 9th Month 28th, and 10th Month 2d, 1878 ”. The proceeding reports will mention the representatives sent from the monthly meetings to participate. Although not necessarily full of “ genealogical ” information, these reports will illustrate the activities of an ancestor within his/her meeting .

86. Quaker Obituaries Two major periodicals published by The Society of Friends were: • The Friends Intelligencer , a Hicksite periodical was published from 1844 to 1955 • The Friend , an Orthodox periodical was published from 1827 to 1955 Both of these periodicals published obituaries of Friends from all over the United States. There is an index of these obituaries: • Quaker Necrology. 2 Vols. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1961. The American Friend Obituary List , an index compiled by Thomas Hamm of Earlham College can be found on their web site at: http://www.earlham.edu/library/content/friends/obituaries/index.html Quaker records: being an index to &quot;The annual monitor,&quot; 1813-1892, containing over twenty thousand obituary notices of members of the Society of Friends, alphabetically & chronologically arranged, with references to &quot;The annual monitor. Edited by Joseph J. Green. London, Edward Hicks, 1894.

88. Quaker Periodicals Quaker periodicals such as the Friends’ Intelligencer and The Friend not only published obituaries but also included a variety of articles and reports from various committees from all over the Quaker world. For example, a traveling minister from the east visiting a meeting further west would make a report to his/her home meeting and often the report of the journey would be reprinted in one of the periodicals. Meetings could regularly send in articles about their activities, which mention their members. Reports on the affairs of Quaker schools and colleges as well as other Quaker organizations are included. Also found in the periodicals are articles about theological, social and spiritual issues.

89. Births, Marriages and Deaths reported in the Intelligencer .

90. Secondary Sources: Encyclopedias, Indexes & Abstracts • Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy , William Wade Hinshaw (six volumes, the seventh volume is an index to the other six volumes). These volumes contain abstracts of Quaker Meetings minutes from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York City and Long Island, Southwestern Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia. Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia is an unfinished work. You should also check the card index of Hinshaw’s unpublished work at Swarthmore College in Philadelphia. Its official title is the William Wade Hinshaw Index to Quaker Meeting Records . It includes more Pennsylvania and New Jersey Meeting records, as well as records from California, Iowa, Kansas, and Indiana. This index has also been microfilmed by the Latter Day Saints Family History Library in Salt Lake City and is available through LDS Family History Centers . In addition to this, the Family History Library made a transcript of Hinshaw’s work on the Iowa Quaker Meeting records. It is entitled The William Wade Hinshaw Index to Iowa Quaker Meeting Records . The transcript is available on microfiche and is available at LSD Family History Centers .

91. WILLIAM WADE HINSHAW 1867-1947 Famous Opera Singer & Even More Famous Genealogist You can find William Wade Hinshaw’s family genealogy at http://www.rawbw.com/~hinshaw/cgi-bin/id?284 ( The Hinshaw Family Association ). The William Wade Hinshaw Grand Opera Company was a mainstay of the Chautauqua circuit. He founded the Hinshaw School of Opera in Chicago. He founded the International Grand Opera Company of Chicago , 1909. He sang with the Metropolitan Opera 1910-13, début 16 NOV 1910 as Biterolf in Tannhäuser .

92. HOW TO USE HINSHAW’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY : When using Hinshaw, always remember that it is an index to Quaker Meeting records; truly a great one, but still it is only an index and a secondary resource. The next step after consulting Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia is to search through the primary sources, your ancestor’s Meeting’s handwritten or typed records. Like all abstracted and printed works, the index itself if not perfect and can contain errors. It is a collaborative work, too. Hinshaw could not do all the indexing himself. Numerous librarians at the Quaker repositories did it for him. Also keep in mind that although the Quakers were meticulous record keepers, they were also human and could make mistakes in their record keeping. The six volumes are arranged by monthly meetings (local congregations), beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest. The chapter for each meeting is introduced with a brief history that includes the names of the earliest members. Next is a section listing information from the meeting’s birth and death records, arranged alphabetically by family name. Following that is an abstract of the minutes of the meeting, including marriages, new memberships, transfers of membership, disownments, and restorations to membership. Again the entries are arranged alphabetically by family, and then chronologically.

94. The infants Edwin L. MOTE and his brother Edwin M. were buried in Turtle Creek Meetinghouse Cemetery a few miles south of Waynesville, Ohio on the dates given. See: http://harveysburg.blogspot.com/2005/08/quaker-meetinghouses-in-harveysburg.html & http://www.co.warren.oh.us/genealogy/cem/Turtlecreek.htm David and Dorcas MOTE moved to Miami Monthly Meeting from Wrightsborough Monthly Meeting in Georgia. Their Certificate of Removal (dated 1804.3.3) was received by Miami MM on Seventh Month (July), 12th day, 1804. Jeremiah MOTE and his wife, Mary, and his children William, David, Aaron, Jeremiah and Isaiah were received by Miami MM from Wrightsborough MM in George. Their Certificate of Removal (dated 1804.3.12) was received by Miami MM on Seventh Month, 12th day, 1804.

95. WILLARD C. HEISS (1921-1988) was the archivist of Indianapolis, Indiana and a noted Quaker scholar and publisher of many Quaker books and booklets. A supplement to Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia was complied by Willard C. Heiss, Encyclopedia Of American Quaker Genealogy: Abstracts Of Records Of The Society Of Friends In Indiana , Parts 1-6, published by the Indiana Historical Society , 1975. The Willard C. Heiss Collection is housed in the Friends Collection at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana (manuscript collection, FMS 33). Willard C. Heiss , in collaboration with Thomas D. Hamm , also compiled Quaker Genealogies: A Selected List of Books. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1985. Willard C. Heiss authored and compiled many other books and monographs on Quaker topics. They are listed on the next slide.

96. • A brief history of Western Yearly Meeting of Conservative Friends and the separation of 1877 • Abstracts of the records of Farmland Monthly Meeting of Friends, Randolph County, Indiana • A list of all the Friends Meetings that exist or ever have existed in Indiana, 1807-1955 • Guide to research in Quaker records in the Midwest (Reprint of the March and April, 1962 issues of the “ Indiana History Bulletin .&quot;) • Honey Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends: Vigo County, Indiana, 1820/ • Logan County, Ohio, saw mill account book, 1815-1821 • Memoranda of the early settlement of Friends in the North-west Territory, and especially of Thomas Beals, who was the first minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends who crossed the Ohio River • Milford Monthly Meeting, Wayne County, Indiana • Notes On The Green Family Of Clinton County, Ohio • Pickett - Allen family letters : (Nineteenth century Quakers in Indiana) and the Allen genealogy • Quakers in the South Carolina Back Country Wateree and Bush River • Quaker Biographical Sketches of Ministers and Elders and Other Concerned Members of the Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia, 1682-1800 • Working in the Vineyards of Genealogy • And many other Indiana and Ohio genealogy abstracts and indexes. See the bibliography in the hardcopy of “ Friendly Research ” for details.

97. Dictionary of Quaker Biography This is a joint project between Britain Yearly Meeting and Haverford College in Haverford, Pa., part of greater Philadelphia, Pa. This source of information has entries for over 15,000 Quakers. There are only two copies, one in England and the other at Haverford College .

98. GILBERT COPE (1840-1928) Other websites about Cope : o http://www.cchs-pa.org/photoarchives.php Noted Historian and genealogist Gilbert Cope took 2500 views from 1887 - 1918 documenting Chester County landscape, families and Quaker community. This online gallery features a sample of Gilbert Cope’s work. A searchable database of the entire collection of Cope's photographs is available for public use by visiting the Chester County Historical Society Library . Also see, http://www.cchs-pa.org/pdfs/photoarchives/WebCopeGuide2006.pdf is know as “ the father of genealogical research in Pennsylvania ” and was the leading authority on Quaker genealogy before Hinshaw. He was a meticulous genealogist and did a great deal to preserve important manuscripts for the future. His collection is housed at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania and The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The LDS library has microfilmed this information and the Index to Gilbert Cope’s Collection of Family Data can be found at http:// www.rootsweb.com/~quakers/cope.htm .

99. Books by Gilbert Cope: 􀂃 A record of the Cope family. As established in America, by Oliver Cope, who came from England to Pennsylvania, about ... 1682, with the residences, dates of births, deaths and marriages of his descendants as far as ascertained. By Gilbert Cope. 􀂃 Genealogy of the Baily Family of Bromham, Wiltshire, England. 􀂃 The Browns of Nottingham 􀂃 Genealogy of the Darlington Family 􀂃 Genealogy of Dunwoody and Hood Families, and Collateral Branches 􀂃 Genealogy of the Dutton Family of Pennsylvania 􀂃 The Jefferis family 􀂃 The Grubb family of Pennsylvania and Delaware 􀂃 Genealogy of the Sharpless Family 􀂃 Genealogy of the Smedley Family 􀂃 Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania. 􀂃 With John Smith Futhey , History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches (1881).

100. ALBERT COOK MYERS (1874-1960): Myers is the author of an important Quaker genealogy classic: Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania: 1682 - 1750 . The book has three parts. Part One, begins with the planting of Quakerism in Ireland. It then goes on to discuss the rise of Quakerism in England, the Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, the beginnings of Quakerism in Ireland and the racial origin of the Friends of Ireland. Part Two, begins with the migration of the Irish Friends to Pennsylvania. This section discusses the reasons for the Irish Friends' immigration into Pennsylvania, the places in Ireland from which the Friends came, the different waves of immigration and the ways and means of migration. The book's appendix includes lists of certificates of removal from Ireland received at the monthly meetings of Friends in Pennsylvania, 1682-1750. Counties involved include Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, Chester, Lancaster, and York in Pennsylvania; New Castle County, Delaware; and Cecil County, Maryland. There also are some extracts from Irish records including information of the Wright, Farquhar, McMillan, Marsh, Mackey and Moore families. Contains a bibliography and surname index.