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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 260 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

Kingwood and Quakertown Preparative Meetings Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/K500
Identifier: QM-Ph-K500
Scope and Contents

Records of Kingwood Preparative Meeting, pre-Separation, including: Minutes, 1801-1823, 1801-1823 (copy).

Dates: 1801-1823
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Lancaster Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/L300
Identifier: QM-Ph-L300
Scope and Contents

Records of Lancaster Monthly Meeting since 1946. Included are: minutes, 1947-2001, and visitor's register, 1946-1976 with minutes of the meeting for worship, 1946-1947.

Dates: 1946-2009
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

Lehigh Valley Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/L450
Identifier: QM-Ph-L450
Scope and Contents

Records of Lehigh Valley Monthly Meeting, 1948-ongoing. Includes digital newsletters and media files.

Dates: 1948-2022
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting (1715-1901) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/L500
Identifier: QM-Ph-L500
Scope and Contents

Records, pre-Separation and Orthodox, include: births and deaths, 1698-1887; marriage records, 1716-1872; membership, 1889-1894; minutes, 1715-1901; women's meeting minutes, 1715-1876; miscellaneous.

Dates: 1696-1901
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting (1986- ) Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-L550
Overview

Records (digital) of the second Little Egg Monthly Meeting (1986- ) include minutes and treasurer's reports.

Dates: 2020 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Little Egg Harbor Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/L510
Identifier: QM-Ph-L510
Scope and Contents

Records include: Men's minutes, 1805-1880; Women's minutes, 1817-1839.

Dates: 1805-1880
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
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