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 30 Collections and/or Records:
Evesham Preparative Meeting Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-E910
Scope and Contents
Pre-Separation and Hicksite meeting records include: minutes of the men's meeting, 1828-1884; and minutes of the women's meeting, 1801-1884. Also included are two account books of the women's meeting, 1830-1868 and 1868-1884. Orthodox and United meeting records include: burials, 1816-1940; minutes of the men's meeting, 1762-1970; minutes of the women’s meeting, 1828-1908; account books, 1838-1970; school trustees minutes and accounts, 1795-1970; miscellaneous papers, 1943-1960, n.d.; deeds...
Dates:
1762-1970
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
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
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.
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
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
Moorestown and Chester Monthly Meetings Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-M600
Scope and Contents
Records of Moorestown Monthly Meeting, 1829-1977, include: Orthodox membership, 1912-1958; other vital records, 1804-1988; minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting, 1804-1827; minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1827-1951; minutes of the Orthodox joint meeting, 1940-1951; minutes of the United meeting, 1951-1974; minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1827-1900; minutes of the Orthodox/United Meeting of Worship and Ministry, 1944-1977 and of...
Dates:
1794-2005
Mount Holly Monthly Meeting Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-M640
Scope and Contents
Records of Mount Holly Monthly Meeting, 1706-2014, include: vital records, 1706-1947; Pre-Separation, Hicksite, and United men’s minutes, 1776-1984 and 1989-2006/2010-2014; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1827-1828; Hicksite women's minutes, 1776-1879; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1827-1828; minutes of the Hicksite and United Meeting of Worship and Ministry and of its predecessors, the Meeting of Ministers and Elders and the Meeting of Ministry and Counsel, 1839-1857 and 1890-1956; minutes of the...
Dates:
1706-2014
Mount Holly Preparative Meeting Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-M650
Scope and Contents
Records of the Mount Holly Preparative Meeting, 1782-1902, include: vital records, 1782-1877; Hicksite men's minutes, 1816-1894; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1827-1902; rough minutes of the pre-separation men's meeting, 1823-1827; Hicksite women's minutes, 1865-1880; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1849-1891; rough minutes of the pre-separation women's meeting, 1797-1811; account book and other financial records, 1873-1895; Mt. Holly Friends Day School account books and receipt books, 1793-1883.
Dates:
1793-1895
Mount Preparative Meeting (including Arney's Mount and Shreve's Mount) Records
Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M670
Identifier: QM-Ph-M670
Scope and Contents
Records include: minutes of the pre-Separation and Hicksite men's meeting and joint meetings, 1808-1870; minutes of the pre-Separation and Hicksite women's meeting, 1824-1847; an account book, 1797-1882; and a burial ground wall account book, 1860-1962.
Dates:
1797-1962
