It is important to remember that those involved with the Underground Railroad operated in secrecy, and usually did not leave a record of their activities. Quaker Meetings did keep excellent written records, but not of Underground Railroad activities; most information and first-person accounts of the Underground Railroad were written after the fact.
Wilmington College serves as the archive for Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting and Wilmington Yearly Meeting, and accepts materials generated by or related to those Meetings and generated by and related to individuals belonging to those Meetings. The archive also maintains a small collection of material related to local genealogy, primarily Quaker but including some county and state material. Wilmington College archives does not have a dedicated Underground Railroad collection.
If members of a Quaker Meeting were involved in Underground Railroad activities, that will not be reflected in their Meeting Minutes or other “church” documentation.
What you may be able to find in Meeting Minutes and associated materials at Watson Library is:
Other possible sources of information about Underground Railroad Activities:
Levi Coffin
Levi Coffin was an abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor who lived in Indiana and Ohio (Cincinnati). His autobiography, Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the underground railroad; being a brief history of the labors of a lifetime in behalf of the slave, with the stories of numerous fugitives, who gained their freedom through his instrumentality, and many other incidents is a first-hand account of Coffin’s underground railroad activities. Watson Library has several copies of Coffin’s Reminiscences, multiple books on Coffin, and a few meeting minutes relating to his membership in Cincinnati Monthly Meeting. For more information on Coffin, we recommend contacting Earlham College and/or the Levi and Catharine Coffin State Historic Site.
William Still
William Still was an African-American abolitionist and Underground Railroad Conductor from Philadelphia. He is the author of The Underground Railroad. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author, vitally important as a first-person account of underground railroad activities by an African-American author. Watson Library has several copies of Still’s book and some books about Still. For more information on Still, and information about archival material, we recommend contacting Temple University.
Watson Library has multiple copies of Larry Gara's book The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad. The library also has a substantial collection of Gara's papers.
Note that these are only a selected sample; we have many more general-purpose books, juvenile and YA books, etc. The following list reflects our local and/or less easily sourced material.
The Underground Railroad in Ohio – by Kathy Schulz
The underground railroad in Ohio – by Wilbur Henry Siebert and Arthur W. McGraw
The underground railroad in Ohio – by Mary Harrison Games
Levi Coffin and the Underground Railroad – by Charles Ludwig
Levi Coffin, Quaker: breaking the bonds of slavery in Ohio and Indiana –by Mary Ann Yannessa
The underground railroad's busiest escape route – by Paul Young
People, Places and Voices: abolition and the underground railroad in Fayette County, Ohio
Anti-slavery & the Underground Railroad: taking a risk for freedom: report of the Research Committee – by Karen S. Campbell
Front line of freedom: African Americans and the forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley – by Keith P Griffler
Ohio's African American Civil War heritage: a collection of essays by the Research History classes 2000-2003 Washington [Senior] High School, Washington C.H., Ohio
For emancipation and education: some black and Quaker efforts, 1680-1900 – by Eliza Cope Harrison, Margaret Hope Bacon
A Quaker pioneer: Laura Haviland, superintendent of the Underground – by Mildred E Danforth
The abolitionist's journal: memories of an American antislavery family – by James Richardson
Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance – by Cheryl Janifer LaRoche
Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad – by Randolph Runyon