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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:

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

Radnor Monthly Meetings Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-R300
Scope and Contents Records of both the pre-Reunification Radnor Monthly Meetings and the records of the sucessor of Radnor United Monthly Meeting. Records of the first Radnor Monthly Meetings, pre-Separation, Orthodox and Hicksite, 1685-1951 include: vital records, 1680-1826; Hicksite vital records, 1763-1950; Hicksite men’s minutes, 1827-1951; Orthodox men's minutes, 1682-1865; women's minutes, 1685-1811; Hicksite women’s minutes, 1872-1887; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1835-1865; ministers and...
Dates: 1680-2012
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Radnor Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/R335
Identifier: QM-Ph-R335
Scope and Contents

Records of Radnor Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1871-1882, as follows: women's minutes, 1871-1882, and a subscription, ca. 1875.

Dates: 1871-1882.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Springfield Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/S670
Identifier: QM-Ph-S670
Scope and Contents

Records include: Orthodox and United minutes, 1948-1977; minutes of the United Worship and Ministry Committee and of its predecessor, the Orthodox Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1949-1967; papers of Springfield Burial Ground Committee, 1840-1967; correspondence and bills relating to addition to meeting house, 1958-1961.

Dates: 1840-[ongoing]
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Springfield Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/S680
Identifier: QM-Ph-S680
Scope and Contents

Records of the Orthodox preparative meeting and of its predecessor, the pre-Separation preparative meeting, 1703-1912, as follows: minutes, 1818-1839, 1882-1903; women's minutes, 1840-1852; record of membership, 1881-1887; account books and other financial records, 1864-1899; deeds and other property records, 1703-1909; miscellaneous papers, 1825-1842.

Dates: 1703-1912
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Swarthmore Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/S900
Identifier: QM-Ph-S900
Scope and Contents Ongoing records of the Hicksite and United meeting include: minutes since 1893 (including digital minutes 2009-2023), marriage and membership records; minutes of the Worship and Ministry Committee and of its predecessors (including digital), the Meeting of Ministry and Counsel and the Meeting of Ministers and Elders; overseers' minutes; account books and financial records (includnig digital); property records; minutes and papers of several committees (incluing digital); correspondence and...
Dates: 1893 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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