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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:

Rancocas Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-R380
Scope and Contents

Records of the Rancocas Preparatory Meeting, 1720-1956, include: vital records, 1720-1956; minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1799-1914; Orthodox men’s meeting minutes, 1856-1919; Hicksite women's minutes, 1853-1885; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1839-1924; financial records, 1798-1924; miscellaneous papers, 1826-1831 and n.d.

Dates: 1799-1914.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Salem Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-S250
Scope and Contents

Records of Salem Monthly Meeting, 1675-2015, include: men's and joint meeting minutes, vital records, women's minutes, Ministers and Elders' minutes, manuscript copies of men's minutes, miscellaneous papers, property records, treasurer's reports, and newsletters. Some minutes and finanical records are digital; files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.

Dates: 1623-2015
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Salem Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-S270
Scope and Contents Records of Salem Quarterly Meeting and its predecessors, the pre-Separation, Hicksite and Orthodox meetings, since 1681, includes: men’s minutes, 1697-1966/1985-2015; women’s minutes, 1707-1904; ministers’ and elders’ minutes, 1735-1965/2012-16; financial records, 1719-1750; committee records; and other miscellaneous papers. Some post-2000 records are digital; digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.Before the Separation, this meeting was known as...
Dates: 1681-2018
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Seaville Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/S400
Identifier: QM-Ph-S400
Scope and Contents

Records include: minutes, 1957-1979; records of former members, 1957-2007, and membership lists, 1957-1972, 1975-1979; and miscellaneous papers, 1950-1967 and 1975-1999.

Dates: 1950-2007
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/S500
Identifier: QM-Ph-S500
Scope and Contents

Records of Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1657-1914. Includes: minutes, 1828-1854; women's meeting minutes, 1680-1855; financial records, 1817-1855.

An inventory of the records of Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting -- pre-Separation, Hicksite, and post-Reunification -- may be found in the New York Yearly Meeting finding aids at Friends Historical Library.

Dates: 1817 - 1855
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Trenton Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/T710
Identifier: QM-Ph-T710
Scope and Contents

Records of Trenton Monthly Meeting, 1893-ongoing, include: Hicksite register of inactive members, 1942-1988, Hicksite financial records, 1893-1981, recorder's correspondence, 1974-78, newsletter files, 1964-84, and records of the dissolution of Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, 1967-77.

Dates: 1893-[ongoing].
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Trenton Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-T730
Scope and Contents Records of Trenton Preparative Meeting, 1795-1973, include: Hicksite minutes, 1827-1973; Orthodox minutes, 1816-1881; Hicksite women's minutes, 1813-1878; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1862-1903; Hicksite treasurers' account book, 1852-1893; Orthodox subscription book, 1837-1840; Hicksite collectors' books, 1897-1929 and 1933-1935; Indian subscription book, 1795-1796; Hicksite Overseers records, 1922-1938 & 1964-1973; Hicksite list of members, 1884; Hicksite/United Recorders' records,...
Dates: 1795-1973.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Upper Springfield Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-U660
Scope and Contents

Records of Upper Springfield Monthly Meeting, 1828-1949, include: Hicksite minutes, 1828-1949; Orthodox minutes, 1783-1927; Hicksite vital records, 1828-1943; Orthodox vital records, 1707-1927; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1783-1907; Orthodox Ministers’ and Elders’ minutes, 1835-1896; Orthodox financial records, 1821-1927.

Dates: 1828-1949
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Upper Springfield Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/U665
Identifier: QM-Ph-U665
Scope and Contents

The records include: men's minutes, 1789-1884; women's minutes, 1820-1840; school fund records, 1793-1875.

Dates: 1789-1987
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Vincent Town Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/V500
Identifier: QM-Ph-V500
Scope and Contents

Records include: Hicksite men's minutes, 1830-1855.

Dates: 1830-1855
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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