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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 28 Collections and/or Records:

Solebury Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/S630
Identifier: QM-Ph-S630
Scope and Contents

Records include: Minute books of the pre-Separation and Hicksite men's meeting 1806-1885; women's pre-Separation and Hicksite meeting minutes, 1806-1883; subscription list for meeting house, 1805 6mo 4.

Dates: 1805-1885
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Southampton Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/S640
Identifier: QM-Ph-S640
Scope and Contents

Records include: Minutes of the united meeting, 1947-1993.

Dates: 1947-[ongoing].
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Upper Dublin Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/U600
Identifier: QM-Ph-U600
Scope and Contents

Minutes since 1941, with gaps, as follows: 1941-1949, 1949-1955, 1955-1959, 1960-1965, 1966-1974, 1987-1999. Minutes (digital) with some gaps, 2002-2022. Also includes some digital memorial minutes and digital annual reports.

Dates: 1941 - 2022
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Upper Dublin Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/U620
Identifier: QM-Ph-U620
Scope and Contents

Records of Upper Dublin Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its predecessor, the pre-Separation meeting, 1816-1940, as follows: women's meeting minutes, 1816-1885; book of discipline belonging to the women's meeting, 1806-1829; burial chart, 1818-1929; plan of meetinghouse and burial ground, 1934.

Dates: 1816-1940.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Warminster Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/W300
Identifier: QM-Ph-W300
Scope and Contents

Records of the Hicksite Warminster Preparative Meeting, 1841-1953, as follows: minutes, 1841-1953; women's minutes, 1841-1881; account books, 1841-1953; women's account book, 1841-1883; property records, 1840, 1858; miscellaneous papers, 1895-1953.

Dates: 1841-1953
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Wrightstown Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-W700
Scope and Contents

Records of Wrightstown Monthly Meeting, 1684-2005, include: vital records, 1684-1916; pre-Separation, Hicksite men's and joint session minutes, 1734-2023, including born-digital minutes; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1827-1833; pre-Separation and Hicksite women’s minutes, 1734-1886 ; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1827-1833; Wrightstown First Day School records, 1899-1918; and other miscellaneous records, 1784-2005.

Dates: 1684 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Wrightstown Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/W710
Identifier: QM-Ph-W710
Scope and Contents

Records include: Hicksite women's minutes, 1832-1854.

Dates: 1832-1854
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Yardley Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/Y300
Identifier: QM-Ph-Y300
Scope and Contents

Records of Yardley Monthly Meeting, 1955-1976, as follows: minutes, 1955-1961, 1961-1970, and 1970-1976, and newsletter. Digital scans of printed paper minutes from 1993-1996 and 1998-2012. Minutes 2013-2022 are born-digital (searchable) pdf files compiled by the meeting as one combined file per year.

Dates: 1955 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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