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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:

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

Lower Mansfield Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/L680
Identifier: QM-Ph-L680
Scope and Contents

Records of Lower Mansfield Preparative Meeting, 1808-1831.

Dates: 1808-1831
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Makefield Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M200
Identifier: QM-Ph-M200
Scope and Contents

Records of Makefield Monthly Meeting, 1736-2021, include: Hicksite men's meeting and joint session minutes, 1820-1975; vital records, 1736-2021; Hicksite women's minutes, 1820-1892; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1827; ministers and elders' minutes, 1855-1892; treasurer's account book, 1821-1926; account book of Makefield Young Friends Association, 1923-1934; membership committee minutes, 1925-1926.

Dates: 1736 - 2021
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Makefield Preparative (including Makefield and Newtown Preparative ((Orthodox)) Meetings Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M340
Identifier: QM-Ph-M340
Scope and Contents

Records of the Makefield Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), the Makefield and Newtown Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), and their pre-Separation predecessor, 1793-1926. Records include: Hicksite men’s minutes, 1793-1926; Hicksite women's minutes, 1802-1825 and 1836-1892; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1827; births and deaths, 1862-1902; membership, 1820; financial records, 1804-1810.

Dates: 1793-1926
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Mansfield Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/M350
Identifier: QM-Ph-M350
Scope and Contents

Records of Mansfield Preparative Meeting, 1779-1913, include: men's minutes, 1818-1913; women's minutes, 1791-1907; accounts, 1828-1845; trustees minutes, 1779-1891; and school fund records, 1783-1858.

Dates: 1779-1913.
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

Maurice River Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M380
Identifier: QM-Ph-M380
Scope and Contents

Records of the pre-Separation and Hicksite meetings, 1728-1854, include: minutes of the men's meeting, 1804-1828; women's meeting minutes, 1833-1854; ministers and elders' minutes, 1830-1854; birth and death records, 1728-1854; abstract of births and deaths, 1728-1912; and marriage records, 1805-1844.

Dates: 1728-1854
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Medford and Upper Evesham Monthly Meetings Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-M400
Scope and Contents Records of Medford Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, 1691-1996, include: Orthodox births and deaths, 1691-1882; Orthodox marriages, 1794-1957; Hicksite membership register, 1758-1978; Orthodox membership, 1693-1979; Orthodox removals, 1794-1935; Hicksite men's meeting and joint session minutes, 1828-1956; Orthodox men’s meeting minutes, 1811-1996; Hicksite women's minutes, 1828-1896; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1794-1917; Hicksite ministers' and elders' minutes, 1829-1896; Orthodox...
Dates: 1758-1996
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Medford and Upper Evesham Preparative Meetings Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M420
Identifier: QM-Ph-M420
Scope and Contents

Records of Medford Preparative Meeting of Friends and of its predecessor, Upper Evesham Preparative Meeting, include: Hicksite minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1828-1970; Hicksite women's minutes, 1828-1891.

Dates: 1828-1970
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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