Pennsville Quarterly Meeting

 

MEETING DETAILS

Name

Pennsville Quarterly Meeting

Mtg Type

Quarterly Meeting

Established By

Ohio Yearly Meeting 09/06/1854

First Met

01/25/1855

Laid Down By

Ohio Yearly Meeting 09/13/1926

Last Met

11/25/1926

Record Last Modified

05/20/2021

Pennsville QM existed for seven decades for Friends in Morgan and Washington Counties in Ohio. When the QM was established in 1854, it included three large MMs: Pennsville, Chesterfield, and Plymouth. The majority of the members of each MM moved to Iowa in the 1860s. Local meetings began to collapse near the end of the nineteenth century, including Plymouth MM in 1897. When Pennsville MM was laid down in 1904, the QM included only one MM, Chesterfield. Ohio YM appointed a committee to work with Chesterfield to sustain Pennsville QM, but in 1926 the YM laid down Pennsville QM and attached Chesterfield to Stillwater QM.

 

SUPERIOR MEETINGS

Ohio Yearly Meeting 1855-1926

SUBORDINATE MEETINGS

Pennsville Monthly Meeting 1855-1904

Chesterfield Monthly Meeting 1855-1926

Plymouth Monthly Meeting 1855-1897

Coal Creek Monthly Meeting 1864-1867

ORGANIZATION

Pennsville Men's QM 1855-1926

Pennsville Women's QM 1855-1926

Pennsville Select QM 1855-1926

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