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 66 Collections and/or Records:
Alloways Creek Preparative Meeting Records
Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/A450
Identifier: QM-Ph-A450
Scope and Contents
Records include: Minutes of the pre-Separation and Hicksite men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1783-1938; minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1841-1877.
Dates:
1783-1938
Atlantic City Area Monthly Meeting Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-A800
Scope and Contents
Records include: Clerk's correspondence, 1981-1985; Deeds, 1866-1884.
Dates:
1866-1884, 1981-1985, 2023
Bordentown Preparative Meeting Records
Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/B620
Identifier: QM-Ph-B620
Scope and Contents
Records include: Hicksite meeting minutes, 1860-1878; Hicksite membership list, 1848; pre-Separation and Orthodox women's meeting minutes, 1804-1827; and a pre-Separation school fund subscription list, 1808-1822.
Dates:
1804-1878
Burlington Preparative Meeting of Friends Records
Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/B870
Identifier: QM-Ph-B870
Burlington Quarterly Meeting Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-B880
Scope and Contents
Records of the Hicksite Burlington Quarterly Meeting include: minutes of the men's and joint meetings, 1827-1917; minutes of the women's meeting, 1827-1889; minutes of the Ministers and Elders meeting, 1841-1941; financial records; and miscellaneous papers, including membership lists, queries received, and other records. Records of the Orthodox Burlington Quarterly Meeting include: minutes of the men’s and joint meetings, 1686-1983; women’s meeting minutes, 1686-1921; minutes of the...
Dates:
1827-1986
Cape May Preparative Records
Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/C350
Identifier: QM-Ph-C350
Scope and Contents
Records of Cape May Preparative Meeting, 1794-1817, include: Men’s Minutes 1794-1817.
Dates:
1794-1817
Chester Preparative Meeting [Moorestown, NJ] Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-C455
Scope and Contents
Records as follows: minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1827-1950; minutes of the Orthodox men’s meeting, 1819-1946; Hicksite women's minutes, 1827-1897; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1788-1918; Hicksite financial records, 1761-1913; Orthodox financial records, 1922-1945; pre-separation property records, 1700-1814; Hicksite property deeds, 1852-1948; Orthodox property deeds, 1782-1944; minutes and other records of Moorestown First Day School,...
Dates:
1761-1950
Chesterfield Monthly Meeting Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-C470
Scope and Contents
Records of the united monthly meeting and of its predecessors, 1682-1977, as follows: minutes of the pre-Separation meeting, 1684-1827; minutes of the Hicksite meeting, 1827-1956; minutes of the united meeting, 1932-1977; minutes of the Orthodox meeting, 1820-1932; minutes of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 1688-1824; minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1827-1852; minutes of the Orthodox women’s meeting, 1810-1903; minutes of the ministers and elders’ meeting, 1875-1953; vital...
Dates:
1682-1977
Cropwell Monthly and Preparative Meetings Records
Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/C700
Identifier: QM-Ph-C700
Scope and Contents
Records of of the pre-Separation, Orthodox, and United branch of Cropwell Preparative Meeting, 1793-1982, include: vital records; men's minutes, 1794-1982; women's minutes, 1806-1917; financial records, 1816-1911; property records, 1805; school committee records, 1906-1920; school trustees' minutes, 1792-1830; Cropwell school fund trustees' account books, 1836-1911.Records of Cropwell Monthly Meeting, 1982-2008, include: minutes, 1982-2008; miscellaneous, 2009. Also includes...
Dates:
1787-2009.
Crosswicks and Chesterfield Preparative Meetings Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-C810
Scope and Contents
Records of Crosswicks Preparative meeting and its predecessor, Chesterfield Preparative Meeting, include: Hicksite men’s minutes, 1793-1799, 1884-1937; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1827-1956; pre-Separation women's minutes, 1796-1826; Orthodox women’s meeting, 1796-1903; Hicksite account books, 1819-1847, 1899-1950; Orthodox account books, 1863-1970; Orthodox women’s account books, 1857-1911; Crosswicks building committee account books and stockholder’s minutes, 1830-1854; property records,...
Dates:
1783-1970
