Encyclopedia
of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. IV & V
of the Ohio Yearly Meetings - Nearly 2500 Pages
by William Wade Hinshaw
originally published by Edwards Brothers, Inc., Ann Arbor,
Michigan, 1938
William Wade Hinshaw's renowned Encyclopedia of American
Quaker Genealogy, originally published between 1936 and 1950, contains
approximately 500,000 entries, each volume with a separate surname index. Almost no class of records, religious or secular, has been kept as
meticulously as the monthly meeting records of the Religious Society of Friends
(Quakers). The oldest such records span three centuries of American history and
testify to a general movement of population that extended from New England and
the Middle Atlantic states southward to Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia;
then west to Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The importance of these records cannot
be overstated. Not until recently have the vital statistics of Quakers been
recorded in civil record offices.
Thus, for more than two centuries, the only vital records identifying these
people are to be met with in the Quaker records themselves. Fortunately, the
monthly meeting records contain extensive lists of births, marriages, and
deaths, as well as details of the removal of members from one meeting to
another. (The monthly meeting, during which vital statistics are recorded, is in
fact, a business meeting.)
Painstakingly developed from these monthly meeting records, Hinshaw's
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy is the magnum opus of Quaker
genealogy. In its production, thousands of records were located and abstracted
into a uniform and intelligible system of notation. The data gathered in these
volumes of the Encyclopedia are arranged by meeting, then alphabetically by
family name, and chronologically thereunder. Volume 1: NORTH CAROLINA Volume II:
NEW JERSEY AND PENNSYLVANIA Volume III: NEW YORK Volume IV: OHIO Volume V: OHIO
Volume VI: VIRGINIA. If as the publisher suggests, 50% of our pre-1850 US ancestors were Quaker,
than every researcher needs a personal copy of each and every Volume!
This CD Contains TWO Volumes - Volume
IV and V :
A Complete Searchable Publication
on CD
Volume IV - OHIO - 1424 Pages
Listing marriages, births, deaths, certificates, disownments, etc. and
much collateral information of interest to genealogy, history, biology, and
social conditions Volumes IV and V comprise a two-volume set, each volume
containing about half of the Ohio Quaker genealogical records. Volume IV
is the largest of the two and is in fact the largest volume of the whole
Encyclopedia. Quakers arrived in the Old Northwest by the thousands,
establishing hundred of Meetings for Worship and erecting an unprecedented
number of monthly meetings. Volume IV contains the genealogical records found
in all original books of the thirty monthly meetings listed below and now
belonging to, and under, the jurisdiction of the two presently (1946) established
Ohio Yearly Meetings; namely, the Wilbur and Gurney Branches of the Society
of Friends in Ohio. Twenty-five of the monthly meetings are in Ohio, four
are in Pennsylvania, and one is in Michigan. The thirty monthly meetings
whose records of births, marriages, and deaths are included in this volume
are as follows:
Names of Monthly Meetings (in this file):
1. Westland, Washington County,
PA
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12. Carmel, Columbiana County, OH
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23. Gilead, Morrow County, OH |
| 2. Redstone, Fayette County, PA
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13. Alum Creek, Delaware County,
OH |
24. West, Mahoning County, OH |
| 3. Sewickley, Westmoreland County,
PA |
14. Flushing, Belmont County, OH
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25. Greenwich, Morrow County, OH
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| 4. Concord, Belmont County, OH
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15. Somerset, Belmont County, OH
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26. Plymouth, Washington County,
OH |
| 5. Plymouth-Smithfield, Jefferson
County, OH |
16. Sandy Spring, Columbiana County,
OH |
27. East Goshen, Mahoning County,
OH |
| 6. Middleton, Columbiana County,
OH |
17. Goshen, Logan County, OH |
28. Columbus, Franklin County, OH
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| 7. Short Creek (Mt. Pleasant),
Jefferson Co., OH |
18. Upper Springfield, Columbiana
Co., OH |
29. Cleveland, Cuyahoga County,
OH |
| 8. Salem, Columbiana County, OH
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19. Deerfield (Pennsville), Morgan
Co., OH |
30. Adrian, MI |
| 9. New Garden, Columbiana County,
OH |
20. Plainfield, Belmont County,
OH |
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| 10. Stillwater, Belmont County,
OH |
21. Marlborough, Stark County, OH
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| 11. Providence, Fayette County,
PA |
22. Chesterfield, Athens County,
OH |
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Volume V - OHIO - 1060 Pages
This volume completes the Ohio
Quaker genealogical records. It contains the genealogical records found in
all original books known to exist of the twenty-one monthly meetings listed
below. These records now belong to and are under the jurisdiction of the
Wilmington Yearly Meeting, Clinton County, Ohio, and/or the Indiana Yearly
Meeting, Richmond, Indiana. All twenty-one meetings are located in south-central,
western, and southwestern Ohio. Records of meetings formerly held in these
areas, but now laid down (including Hicksite), are included. Ohio Yearly
Meeting was established in 1813 by Baltimore Yearly Meeting and took jurisdiction
over all meetings in Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and Indiana. (Indiana Yearly
Meeting was established in 1821 and took jurisdiction over western Ohio and
all of Indiana.) The monthly meetings included in this volume are as follows:
Names of Monthly Meetings (in this file):
1. Miami, Warren County, OH
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8. Mill Creek, Miami County, OH
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15. Westfield, Preble County, OH |
| 2. Fairfield, Highland County,
OH |
9. Clear Creek, Clinton County,
OH |
16. Green Plain, Clark County, OH |
| 3. West Branch, Miami County, OH
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10. Union, Miami County, OH
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17. Springborough, Warren County,
OH
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| 4. Center, Clinton County, OH |
11. Cincinnati, Hamilton County,
OH
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18. Dover, Clinton County, OH |
| 5. Elk, Preble County, OH |
12. Newberry, Clinton County, OH
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19. Hopewell, Clinton County, OH |
| 6. Caesar's Creek, Clinton County,
OH |
13. Lees Creek, Highland County,
OH |
20. Wilmington, Clinton County,
OH
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| 7. Fall Creek, Highland County,
OH |
14. Springfield, Clinton County,
OH |
21. Van Wert, Van Wert County, OH |
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