The Quakers

Lick Creek Monthly Meeting was set-off from Whitewater Monthly Meeting and held on the 25^th of Ninth Month 1813. Its limits then included the present bounds of Washington and Orange counties.

In 1807 or 1808 Jonathan Lindley scouted the Indiana territory and returned to North Carolina with glowing accounts of the land and forests.

In the spring of 1811 Lindley headed a company composed of his sons and daughters and other near relations who came north intending to settle in the Wabash country. Upon arrival in the Indiana territory they were convinced not to go there because of the Indian unrest. By what chance they came to settle on Lick Creek is not now known. The settlement was three miles east of Paoli in what is now Paoli township.

In Whitewater Monthly Meeting, 8^th mo 1811, "The lonesome situation of friends living in the Southern part of this territory & remote from meetings coming weightily under consideration, Ephraim Overman & Andrew Hoover are appointed to Visit them as truth may opn the way…"

A year later an indulged meeting for worship was allowed. In spite of the general state of affairs on the frontier, the meeting thrived and a monthly meeting was established.

The following meetings were established and later set-off as monthly meetings: Blue River (1815), Honey Creek (1820) and White Lick (1823).

In 1891 a meeting was held at Paoli and a meetinghouse built there. In 1893 the name Lick Creek was changed to Paoli Monthly Meeting and held there. For records of Paoli, see subsequent account.

Men's Minutes

Women's Minutes

Joint Minutes

9-25-1813 : 12 mo 1859*

8 mo 1874 : 12-27-1878*

9-25-1813 : 12 mo 1859*

1-26-1838 : 2-21-1852*

5-17-1855 : 11-16-1878*

1-18-1879 : 7-15-1893*

Honey Creek Monthly Meeting was set-off from Lick Creek Monthly Meeting and first held the 9^th of the Ninth Month 1820. It was located near Prairieton in Prairieton Township, Vigo County.

As early as 1823 there was a friends settlement in Vermilion County, Illinois, and a subordinate meeting established there. I 1826 Vermilion Monthly Meeting was set off from Honey Creek. It was at that time the most westerly monthly meeting in America.

In 1826 Elevatis was established as a meeting for worship and a preparative in Parke County. In 1827 it was set-off as a monthly meeting and called Bloomfield (changed to Bloomington in 1875).

Following the Separation the orthodox members of Honey Creek were attached to Bloomfield Monthly Meeting in 1829 as the monthly meeting was laid down. The meeting for worship had ceased to exist by 1856.

Bloomfield Monthly Meeting was set-off from Honey Creek Monthly Meeting and first held the 1^st of Twelfth Month 1827. The meeting for worship and the preparative had previously been known as Elevatis. The location of Elevatis is thought to have been one mile south of the present meetinghouse.

In 1875 when the post office of the village was named Bloomingdale, the name of the monthly meeting was changed to Bloomingdale.

Two monthly meeting were set-off from Bloomfield: Rocky Run (1864) and Rush Creek (1850), both located in Parke County.

Vermilion Monthly Meeting was set-off from Honey Creek Monthly Meeting and first held on the 2^nd of Ninth Month 1826. The meeting is located 4 miles south of Georgetown. Friends settled here as early as 1823.

This monthly meeting is the link to the meetings in the west. Certificated were deposited here until Salem Monthly Meeting was established in Iowa. [In Henry County]

One monthly meeting was set-off in Indiana: Holewell (1873) in Vermillion County, Indiana.

Because of a controversy Vermilion Monthly Meeting was laid down the Third Month 1840 and the membership was attached to Bloomfield Monthly Meeting. Vermilion was re-established First month 1841

The Salem MM was established in 1838, a set-off from the Vermilion MM, Illinois