Primitive Methodist Church records, 1842-1984

Contents List

Container Title
Platteville Micro 40/Micro 1127
Reel   1
Series: Disciplines, 1852, 1871, and 1900
Reel   1
Series: Published and Unpublished Correspondence and Minutes
Reel   1
“The Origin of the Primitive Methodist Connexion in the Middlewest,” written by James Alderson to the Primitive Methodist Magazine, 1842-1843
Note: Typescript.
Reel   1
“Clowes Primitive Methodist Church, 1853, Grant Hill, Illinois” by Alderson from the Primitive Methodist Magazine
Note: Typescript.
Reel   1
Numerous articles on Primitive Methodism in the Middlewest from the Primitive Methodist Magazine, 1847-1858
Note: Typescript.
Reel   1
Memoir of John Leekly of New Diggings, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, by John Sharpe, 1854, from the American Primitive Methodist Magazine
Note: Typescript.
Reel   1
Letters of John Leekley; reproduced pages from the Primitive Methodist Magazine
Reel   4
Documents regarding Joseph Hewitt
Note: Found at very end of Reel 4, after “End of Reel” target
Western Conference Minutes
Reel   1
1851-1894
Reel   4
1895-1930
Scope and Content Note: Also includes Eastern Conference minutes, 1873 and 1874. The minutes are in a single chronological order. They include synopses of meetings in 1851, 1853, 1862, 1870, 1877, 1878, 1893, 1895-1901, and 1903 (mainly from periodicals and newspapers); and printed booklets documenting meetings in 1872-1874, 1886, 1889-1892, 1893-1922, 1924-1925, and 1930.
Reel   4
Western Conference Minute book, 1883-1890
Reel   4
General Conference Minutes, 1893, 1897, 1901, 1905, 1909, 1913, 1917, 1921, 1925, 1929
Note: Published booklets
Reel   4
John Hardcastle tribute by James A. Nichols and a newspaper obituary, 1929
Western Conference Connexional Committee Minute book
Reel   4
1870-1892 Sept 27
Note: Pages 1-175
Reel   2
1892 Sept 27-1910
Note: Pages 176-end
Series: Local Congregation and Circuit Records
Reel   2
Rockyford Circuit: Minute book, 1843-1862
Reel   2
Benton Church: original and transcribed documents, 19th century; and minutes of the Benton Local Preachers' Association, , 1847-1862
Hazel Green Circuit
Note: See additional records in Platteville SC 56 listed below.
Reel   2
Trustee's book, 1880-1903
Reel   2
Circuit steward's book, 1886-1903
Reel   2
Minute books, 1906-1922, 1963-1966
Reel   2
Mifflin-Linden: Minute book, 1904-1941
Reel   2
Mt. Zion (near Lancaster, WI): Records, 1871-1984, 1920-1983
Reel   2
New Diggings Circuit: Minute book, 1887-1914
Note: See additional records in Platteville SC 56 listed below.
Reel   2
Pleasant Ridge (near Dodgeville, WI): Minute book, 1894-1947
Reel   2
Pleasant View (near Darlington, WI): Minute book, 1896-1962
Note: See additional records in Platteville SC 56 listed below.
Reel   2
Wardsville (near Darlington, WI): Minute book, 1866-1935
Reel   2
Plum Grove (near Dodgeville, WI): Minute book, 1882-1890
Note: See additional records in Platteville SC 56 listed below.
Reel   2
Laxey (Linden township, Iowa County): 1978 picnic papers and transcribed cemetery records
Mt. Zion (Little Grant) Circuit
Reel   3
Class members record book, 1871-1892
Reel   3
Quarterly meeting minutes, 1883-1891
Reel   3
Notes from leaders' meetings, 1871-1879, then marriage records, , 1879-1880
Reel   3
Grant Mission roll book, 1865-1879
Reel   3
Superintendent's Condensed Minute Book, 1896-1899
Reel   3
Mission steward's book (financial records), 1872-1877
Reel   3
Quarterly meeting minutes, 1872-1884
Reel   3
Circuit steward's book
Reel   3
Quarterly meeting minutes, 1884-1898
Reel   3
Annual reports to national Conference, 1865-1898
Reel   3
Financial record book, 1871-1876
Reel   3
Quarterly financial reports, 1864-1876, and later notes
Reel   3
Quarterly meeting minutes, 1898-1902
Reel   3
Centennial book listing guests, pictures, general information, October 3, 1971
Platteville SC 56
Folder   1
Hazel Green, WI, Minutes and Miscellaneous, 1963-1965
Folder   2
New Diggings Circuit, WI, Digest of quarterly meetings, 1896-1926
Folder   3
Pleasant View, Wardsville, WI, History, 1965
Folder   4
Plum Grove, WI, History, undated