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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 4 Collections and/or Records:

Media Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M440
Identifier: QM-Ph-M440
Scope and Contents

Records of Media Monthly Meeting and its immediate predecessor, Chester Monthly Meeting (Media, Pa.) from 1948. Includes: vital records to 2009, minutes, 1948-2013/2015-18, financial records, committee records, and miscellaneous. Of particular interest are the records of the Sanctuary Committee, 1986-1990, and blueprints of the Media meetinghouse

The pre 1948 records of Chester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) have been described with the records of Chester Monthly Meeting.

Dates: 1924-2018
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Media Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M450
Identifier: QM-Ph-M450
Scope and Contents

Records of the Orthodox preparative meeting include: minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1878-1949; women's minutes, 1878-1900; membership list, 1878; financial records, 1878-1908; minutes of the Juvenile Auxiliary Committee, 1912-1913; miscellaneous papers, 1913-1934.

Dates: 1878-1949
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Providence Monthly Meeting (Delaware County, Pa.) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/P700
Identifier: QM-Ph-P700
Scope and Contents

Records of the Hicksite meeting include: Minutes 1934-1992; vital records since 1769; minutes of Ministry and Counsel, 1934-1944; trustees' minutes, 1938-1987; miscellaneous papers, 1717-1973 and n.d.

Dates: 1717 - 2007
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Providence Preparative Meeting (Delaware County, Pa.) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/P720
Identifier: QM-Ph-P720
Scope and Contents

Records of the Pre-Separation and Hicksite preparative meetings include: minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1830-1942; women's minutes, 1839-1891; papers concerning financial and property matters, 1876-1939; First Day School minutes, 1909-1926; First Day School attendance record, 1908-1918; Philanthropic Committee papers, 1931-1935; Media Friends' Association minutes, 1894-1908.

Dates: 1811-1942
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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