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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 66 Collections and/or Records:

Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting Records (including Haddonfield and Salem Quarterly Meeting)

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-H350
Scope and Contents Records of Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting, 1795-2020, include: men's meeting minutes, 1795-1827; Hicksite men's meeting and joint session minutes, 1827-1954; Orthodox and United men’s meeting and joint session minutes, 1827-1990 and 2019-2020; women's minutes, 1795-1814, with Salem Quarterly women's minutes; minute book of the Orthodox women's meeting, 1815-1919; minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1827-1903; ministers and elders minutes, 1795-1819; Orthodox ministers and elders minutes,...
Dates: 1795-2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Kingwood and Quakertown Preparative Meetings Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/K500
Identifier: QM-Ph-K500
Scope and Contents

Records of Kingwood Preparative Meeting, pre-Separation, including: Minutes, 1801-1823, 1801-1823 (copy).

Dates: 1801-1823
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting (1715-1901) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/L500
Identifier: QM-Ph-L500
Scope and Contents

Records, pre-Separation and Orthodox, include: births and deaths, 1698-1887; marriage records, 1716-1872; membership, 1889-1894; minutes, 1715-1901; women's meeting minutes, 1715-1876; miscellaneous.

Dates: 1696-1901
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting (1986- ) Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-L550
Overview

Records (digital) of the second Little Egg Monthly Meeting (1986- ) include minutes and treasurer's reports.

Dates: 2020 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Little Egg Harbor Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/L510
Identifier: QM-Ph-L510
Scope and Contents

Records include: Men's minutes, 1805-1880; Women's minutes, 1817-1839.

Dates: 1805-1880
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Lower Mansfield Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/L680
Identifier: QM-Ph-L680
Scope and Contents

Records of Lower Mansfield Preparative Meeting, 1808-1831.

Dates: 1808-1831
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Mansfield Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/M350
Identifier: QM-Ph-M350
Scope and Contents

Records of Mansfield Preparative Meeting, 1779-1913, include: men's minutes, 1818-1913; women's minutes, 1791-1907; accounts, 1828-1845; trustees minutes, 1779-1891; and school fund records, 1783-1858.

Dates: 1779-1913.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Maurice River Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M380
Identifier: QM-Ph-M380
Scope and Contents

Records of the pre-Separation and Hicksite meetings, 1728-1854, include: minutes of the men's meeting, 1804-1828; women's meeting minutes, 1833-1854; ministers and elders' minutes, 1830-1854; birth and death records, 1728-1854; abstract of births and deaths, 1728-1912; and marriage records, 1805-1844.

Dates: 1728-1854
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Medford and Upper Evesham Monthly Meetings Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-M400
Scope and Contents Records of Medford Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, 1691-1996, include: Orthodox births and deaths, 1691-1882; Orthodox marriages, 1794-1957; Hicksite membership register, 1758-1978; Orthodox membership, 1693-1979; Orthodox removals, 1794-1935; Hicksite men's meeting and joint session minutes, 1828-1956; Orthodox men’s meeting minutes, 1811-1996; Hicksite women's minutes, 1828-1896; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1794-1917; Hicksite ministers' and elders' minutes, 1829-1896; Orthodox...
Dates: 1758-1996
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Medford and Upper Evesham Preparative Meetings Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M420
Identifier: QM-Ph-M420
Scope and Contents

Records of Medford Preparative Meeting of Friends and of its predecessor, Upper Evesham Preparative Meeting, include: Hicksite minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1828-1970; Hicksite women's minutes, 1828-1891.

Dates: 1828-1970
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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