The collection consists of meeting minutes, membership lists, marriages, births, and deaths of members in Friends meetings dated from the early 1800s on and including the following locations in North Carolina: Great Contentnea, Nuese, Woodland, Westfield, Deep Creek, Mount Pleasant, Dover, Hopewell, Union, Core Sound (Carteret County), Center, New Garden, Springfield (Guilford County), Rich Square (Northampton County), Cane Creek (Orange County, now Alamance), Spring-Orange County, Pasquotank County, Perquimans County, Sutton's Creek (Perquimans County), Marlborough, Holly Spring, and Back Creek (Randolph County). North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends was established in 1698; in 1904 several monthly meetings withdrew to form the Conservative branch, while the larger body remained affiliated with Five Years Meeting (founded 1902), later Friends United Meeting (FUM).