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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 27 Collections and/or Records:

Haverford Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/H390
Identifier: QM-Ph-H390
Scope and Contents

Records of Haverford Quarterly Meeting, 1955-ongoing, as follows: minutes, 1955-64, & 1988-98, 2001-06, and Clerk's correspondence, 1993-98.

Dates: 1955-2006
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Lansdowne Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/L320
Identifier: QM-Ph-L320
Scope and Contents Records of the united monthly meeting and its predecessors, the Hicksite and Orthodox monthly meetings, since 1898. Included are: Minutes of the united meeting since 1951; minutes of the Hicksite meeting, 1901-1951 and minutes of the Orthodox meeting, 1904-1951; marriage and membership records; minutes of the Orthodox women's meeting, 1904-1915; minutes of Worship and Ministry and its predecessors; First Day School meeting minutes; financial, property, and committee records. Digital records...
Dates: 1898 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Lansdowne Preparative Meeting Records (including its predecessor Darby Preparative Meeting (Orthodox))

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/L340
Identifier: QM-Ph-L340
Scope and Contents

Records of Lansdowne Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1924-1953), 1827-1907, and its predecessor, Darby Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1924). Includes: Women's minutes, 1827-1847 and 1903-1907; women's account book, 1852-1901; miscellaneous papers relating to history of Darby meeting, 1902-1961.

The records of Darby Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) are described in a separate finding aid.

Dates: 1827-1961
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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

Middletown Monthly Meeting (Delaware County, Pa.) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/M505
Identifier: QM-Ph-M505
Scope and Contents

Records of Middletown Monthly Meeting, 1931-1995, include: marriage certificates, 1933-1955; joint meeting minutes, 1931-1997; worship and ministry minutes, 1960-1991; committee records, 1970s-1980s; miscellaneous, 1935-1995.

Dates: 1931-1997
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Middletown Preparative Meeting (Delaware County, Pa.) Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-M540
Scope and Contents Records of Middletown Preparative Meeting (Delaware County, Pennsylvania), 1771-1969, include Pre-Separation, Hicksite, and Orthodox records. Hicksite member record (including births), 1840-1893; list of burials (Pre-Separation and Hicksite), 1787-1860; minutes (Orthodox men’s minutes, 1821-1950 and Hicksite men's/joint minutes 1827-1921; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1849-1919 and Pre-Separation/Hicksite women's minutes 1813-1888); Orthodox ministers and elders minutes, 1931-1959; account books...
Dates: 1771 - 1969
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Newtown Preparative Meeting (Delaware County, Pa.) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/N460
Identifier: QM-Ph-N460
Scope and Contents

Records of the Hicksite meeting include: minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1840-1935; women's minutes, 1847-1897; treasurer's account book, 1912-1939; burial vault account book, 1849-1879; deeds and declarations of trust, 1708-1832; miscellaneous financial accounts, 1790-1791 and n.d.

Dates: 1708-1935.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Newtown Square Monthly Meeting (Delaware County, Pa.) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/N490
Identifier: QM-Ph-N490
Scope and Contents

Records include: minutes since 1964; Hicksite trustees' minutes, 1940-1966; papers concerning the oversight of the monthly meeting by Haverford Quarterly Meeting, 1983-1985; list of members, 1990; membership, about 1979-87, register, about 1826-2003. Also includes a digitized photocopy of an undated (20th century) plot chart of the burial ground. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.

Dates: 1940-2003
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Old Haverford Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/O400
Identifier: QM-Ph-O400
Scope and Contents

Records include: Hicksite minutes since 1951; Hicksite vital records, including marriage papers, 1951-1982; membership records, 1950-1974 and 1950-1981; removals issued and received, and other papers concerning membership,1927-1984; newsletter.

Dates: 1927-1995
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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