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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 41 Collections and/or Records:

Kennett, Old Kennett, and Kennett Square Preparative Meetings Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/K470
Identifier: QM-Ph-K470
Scope and Contents Records of Kennett Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) include: Minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1828-1931; women's meeting minutes, 1859-1909. Records of Old Kennett Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and the pre-Separation meeting include: minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1879-1949; burial records, 1750-1902 and 1874-1885; membership lists, 1915-1922 and 1926 or 1927; First Day School minutes, 1876-1941; trustees' meeting...
Dates: 1750-1977
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

London Grove Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-L600
Scope and Contents Records of London Grove Monthly Meeting, 1792-2018. Includes: Orthodox births and deaths, 1830-1883; abstracts of Hicksite marriages, 1804-1844; abstracts of Orthodox marriages, 1829-1909; Orthodox membership lists, 1827-1939; Hicksite removals, 1792-1871; Orthodox removals, 1828-1891; Hicksite men’s minutes, 1792-1909; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1827-1944; Hicksite and United joint minutes, 1909-2018 (some gaps); Hicksite women’s minutes, 1792-1893; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1827-1912;...
Dates: 1792-2018
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

London Grove Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-L630
Scope and Contents

Records include: men’s minutes, 1777-1787; Hicksite men’s minutes, 1875 and 1877-1912; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1847-1897; Hicksite women's minutes, 1877-1912; Orthodox women’s meeting, 1862-1907; Orthodox financial records, 1889-1922.

Dates: 1777-1787; 1847-1945
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Marlborough Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M360
Identifier: QM-Ph-M360
Scope and Contents

Records of Marlborough Monthly Meeting, 1972-2022. Includes minutes, 1972-2014 (when Marlborough left Philadelphia Yearly Meeting), financial and incorporation records, and records of the burial ground.

Dates: 1972-2014
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Marlborough Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M370
Identifier: QM-Ph-M370
Scope and Contents

Records of Marlborough Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1801-1964, as follows: minutes of the men's meeting and joint sessions, 1802-1964; women's minutes, 1802-1873; vital records, 1851-1923; burial records, account books, deeds and other property records, etc.

Dates: 1801-1972.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

New Garden Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-N400
Scope and Contents

Records of New Garden Monthly Meeting, 1682-1978, include: minutes, 1718-1975; vital records, 1682-1976; women's minutes, 1718-1891; minutes of the committee of ministry and counsel and of its predecessor, the meeting of ministers and elders, 1812-1933; financial and property records; miscellaneous papers. Records (Hicksite) include: Vital records, 1692-1952; financial and property papers, 1912-1957; overseers' minutes, 1903-1949; miscellaneous papers, 1883-1978, etc.

Dates: 1682-1975
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

New Garden Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-N420
Scope and Contents

Records of New Garden Preparative Meeting, Orthodox and Hicksite, include: men's and joint session minutes, 1827-1928; women's minutes, 1847-1914.

Dates: 1827-1928.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Pennsgrove Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/P440
Identifier: QM-Ph-P440
Scope and Contents

Records of the Pennsgrove Monthly Meeting, 1833-1968, include: vital records (including births, deaths, removals, marriages, membership, etc.), 1841-1968; Hicksite men’s minutes 1842-1952; Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1842-1884; Hicksite minister’s and elder’s minutes, 1896-1917; miscellaneous property records, 1833-1898; miscellaneous papers, 1951-ca.1952.

Dates: 1841-1952
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Pennsgrove Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/P450
Identifier: QM-Ph-P450
Scope and Contents

Records of the Hicksite Preparative Meeting as follows: minutes,1829-1944 and 1944-1951; First Day school minutes, 1896-1898 and 1900-1909.

Dates: 1829-1951
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Pikeland Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/P500
Identifier: QM-Ph-P500
Scope and Contents

Includes: minutes of the men's meeting, 1838-1854; deed, 1834.

Dates: 1834-1854
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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