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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.

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Pikeland Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/P500
Identifier: QM-Ph-P500
Scope and Contents

Includes: minutes of the men's meeting, 1838-1854; deed, 1834.

Dates: 1834-1854
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Schuylkill Monthly, Preparative, and Indulged Meetings Records (including Charlestown Meeting)

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/S300
Identifier: QM-Ph-S300
Scope and Contents Records include: Minutes of the indulged meeting, 1939-1954, and of the Monthly Meeting, 1954-1972, 1974-1977, 1979-1982, 1998-2002, and 2014-2019. Marriage licenses, 1958-1965, and certificates of removal received, 1959-67, laid in minute book, 1954-1968. Folder of minutes, 1968-72, includes travelling minutes. Miscellaneous records of the earlier meetings at Schuylkill include an account book, 1897-1918; miscellaneous financial papers, 1868 -1929; trip through Pennsylvania (fragment only),...
Dates: 1805-2019
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Uwchlan Monthly Meeting Records (Downingtown Friends Meeting)

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-U900
Scope and Contents

Records of Uwchlan Monthly Meeting -- pre-Separation, Orthodox, and united -- 1763-1914. Includes: pre-Separation and Orthodox minutes, 1763-1852, and women's minutes, 1763-1882; Orthodox ministers & elders' minutes, 1782-1914; Orthodox burials (Downingtown, Pa.), 1813-1887; manumissions, 1775-1784.

Dates: 1763-2005.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Valley Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/V300
Identifier: QM-Ph-V300
Scope and Contents

Records of the Valley Monthly Meeting, 1925-[ongoing], include: minutes, 1936-2018 (2016-2018 are digital); Overseers' minutes, 1940-1954; chart of Valley Friends' Cemetery, 1925; marriage certificate, 1971; papers relating to the Centennial Commemoration of Valley Friends' meeting house, 1971.

Dates: 1925-2018
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Valley Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/V320
Identifier: QM-Ph-V320
Scope and Contents

Records of Valley Preparative Meeting, 1760-1939, as follows: minutes of the men's pre-Separation and Hicksite meeting and joint sessions, 1810-1939; women's pre-Separation and Hicksite meeting minutes, 1814-1896; graveyard accounts, 1800-1887; list of marriages and marriage acknowledgments, 1760-1805; First Day School report, 1905; Hicksite clerk's correspondence, 1930-1936.

Dates: 1760-1939
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Chester Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/W400
Identifier: QM-Ph-W400
Scope and Contents

Records include: minutes, 1956-1969 and a mix of born-digital and digitized minutes 2008-2015 and 2020-2022; membership papers, 1955-1976; Overseers' minutes, 1956-1964; marriage certificate, 1956.

Dates: 1955 - 2022
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Chester Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-W420
Scope and Contents Records of West Chester Preparative Meeting, 1811-1943, include: minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting and joint sessions, 1841-1940; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1866-1932; Hicksite women's minutes, 1862-1888; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1875-1920; Hicksite financial records, 1864-1928; Orthodox financial records, 1876-1908; school committee papers, 1887-1897; property committee minutes, 1900-1923; history of the meeting chiefly concerning property ownership and buildings, 1881; miscellaneous...
Dates: 1811-1943
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Grove Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/W440
Identifier: QM-Ph-W440
Scope and Contents

Records of West Grove Monthly Meeting and West Grove Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1919-2014, include: Minutes, 1919-2014; vital records, 1919-1962; minutes of the Meeting of Ministry and Counsel, 1919-1935; West Grove First Day School minutes, 1918-1947; minutes and other papers of the Association for the Care of Friends' Burial Ground at Lower New Garden, 1914-1977; West Grove Friends' Forum minutes, 1925-1942; miscellaneous papers, 1935-1938; Treasurer's records, 2012-14.

Dates: 1914-2014
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Grove Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-W450
Scope and Contents Records of the West Grove Preparative Meeting, 1788-1979, include: Hicksite minutes, 1833-1949; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1846-1946; Hicksite women's minutes, 1853-1889; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1870-1919; Hicksite financial and property records, 1830-1973; Orthodox financial records, 1817-1915; Hicksite First Day School minutes, 1880-1912; Young Friends' Association minutes, 1904-1912), burial charts, 1910; burial permits, 1917-1925; account books and other financial papers, 1835-1910; West...
Dates: 1788-1979
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Willistown Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/W550
Identifier: QM-Ph-W550
Scope and Contents

Records of Willistown Monthly Meeting, 1936-2006, include: Hicksite and United minutes since 1939; Hicksite and United trustees' minutes, 1942-1980 ; Hicksite and United financial records, 1936-1984 ; minutes of Willistown Preparative Meeting (1940-1952), 1935-1952.

Dates: 1936-2006
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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