Title: Primitive Methodist Church records
Inclusive Dates: 1842-1984

Call Number: Platteville SC 56; Platteville Micro 40; Micro 1127

Quantity: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder) and 4 reels of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:

Housed at the Southwest Wisconsin Room and Area Research Center, Ullsvik Hall, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Platteville Southwest Wisconsin Room / Platteville Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Records gathered by Charles W. Tyrrell and others during his research for Steeples on the Prairies, a history of the Primitive Methodist Church in the Midwest. Included are published disciplines, conference minutes, and relevant items from periodicals and newspapers; transcriptions of published items; and many original records relevant to southwestern Wisconsin. Present are letters and memoirs of pioneer pastors; minutes of the General (national) Conference, the Western Conference, and the Western Conference's Connexional Committee; and various recordbooks and other documents of several of the local churches and circuits.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-micr1127

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These materials were brought together for microfilming through the efforts of Charles Tyrrell and officers and members of the Primitive Methodist Churches in southwestern Wisconsin (Middlewest) and the main office in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

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Reel   1	Series: Published and Unpublished Correspondence and Minutes	⇧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