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QM/Ph/MM. Constituent Monthly, Preparative, and Quarterly meetings

 Record Group Term
Identifier: QM/Ph/MM
_____ MONTHLY MEETING _____ The basic unit of Quaker administration, which holds regular monthly business meetings. Only members can participate. It has responsibility for care of members, authorizes removals and marriages, maintains discipline, considers the queries, manages meeting property, fosters social concerns, and reports regularly to the quarterly meeting. _____ PREPARATIVE MEETING _____ A regularly-organized business meeting of a single congregation which prepared business to be presented to the monthly meeting. The scope of business as recorded in its minutes was normally limited to responses to queries and matters of property and school oversight. _____ QUARTERLY MEETING _____ Meetings for business held four times per year, attended by representatives of all monthly meetings in a region. It is an intermediary between the monthly and yearly meeting, serves as an appellate body for disciplinary matters, and considers problems too large for a local meeting to solve. A quarterly meeting holds the authority to establish or discontinue a monthly, preparative, or particular meeting for worship. It collects financial assessments from each monthly meeting in accordance with the quota established by the yearly meeting.

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Robeson Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-R610
Scope and Contents Records of Robeson Monthly Meeting, pre-Separation, Orthodox, and Hicksite. Records of the pre-Separation meeting include: men's meeting minutes, 1789-1812; rough or clerk's copies of minutes, 1789-1826; minutes of the meeting of ministers and elders, 1798-1819. Records of the Hicksite meeting include: Rough minutes of the men's meeting 1826-1839, and miscellaneous papers, 1799-1837, & n.d. Records of the Orthodox meeting include: minutes of the men's meeting, 1812-1862; women's meeting...
Dates: 1744-1872