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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 16 Collections and/or Records:

Mill Creek Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M565
Identifier: QM-Ph-M565
Scope and Contents

Records of Mill Creek Preparative Meeting, 1841-1910, as follows: Hicksite men's minutes, 1841-1883; Hicksite women's minutes, 1854-1891; deeds, 1841, 1880, & 1910.

Dates: 1841-1910
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Newark Monthly Meeting (Newark, Del.) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/N430
Identifier: QM-Ph-N430
Scope and Contents Records include: Minutes and Queries, 1962-2021, vital records including correspondence concerning marriage and memorial minutes, and Worship & Ministry. Also included are committee records (including those of the committee with care for London Britain Meetinghouse), financial records, and miscellaneous records like clerk's files and newsletters. Records are primarily paper pre-2010 and primarily digital post-2010. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or...
Dates: 1962 - 2022
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Southern Quarterly and Half-Yearly Meetings Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-S650
Scope and Contents

Records of the Southern Quarterly and Southern Half-Yearly Meetings and of the Quarterly Meeting on the Eastern Shore, 1756-1994, include: Orthodox vital records, 1832-1871; Hicksite/United minute books, 1759-2010; Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1756-1816; Hicksite financial papers, 1793-1860; extracts from Hicksite minutes, 1784; miscellaneous Hicksite correspondence, 1970.

Dates: 1756-2010
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Stanton Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/S710
Identifier: QM-Ph-S710
Scope and Contents

Record of the Hicksite preparative meeting include: Minutes, 1826-1891; subscription book for meeting's quota, 1820-1884; miscellaneous financial papers, 1828-1891; burial record for Charles Dickerson, 1864.

Dates: 1820-1891.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Wilmington Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-W570
Scope and Contents Records of Wilmington Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, 1750-2017, as follows: Orthodox vital records, 1790-1961; Hicksite vital records, 1735-1961; Hicksite minutes, 1750-1981; Orthodox minutes, 1827-1945; Hicksite women's minutes, 1720-1891; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1827-1909; Hicksite minutes of Worship & Ministry and its predecessors, 1757-1960; Orthodox ministers’ and elders’ minutes, 1829-1945; Hicksite and Orthodox financial records (includes Orthodox), 1788-1963; scrapbooks,...
Dates: 1713-2017
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Wilmington Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-W580
Scope and Contents

Records of Wilmington Preparative Meeting, 1811-1891, include: pre-Separation rough minutes, 1812-1819; Hicksite minutes, 1857-1891; Orthodox minutes, 1831-1848; minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1870-1891; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1883-1907; Hicksite financial records, 1811-1891; and minutes of the Society for the Relief of the Poor, 1813-1815.

Dates: 1811-1891
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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