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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:

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

Merchantville Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/M455
Identifier: QM-Ph-M455
Scope and Contents

Records of Merchantville Meeting include: independent meeting minutes, 1897-1923.

Dates: 1897-1923
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Merion Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M460
Identifier: QM-Ph-M460
Scope and Contents

Records of Merion Monthly Meeting, 1888-ongoing, as follows: Hicksite and United vital records, 1942-[ongoing]; minutes, 1951-2019; property records, 1891-2001; Hicksite financial records, 1888-1986; and miscellaneous papers. Digital minutes (2001-2009) and newsletters 2021-ongoing also included. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.

Dates: 1888-2022
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Merion Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M470
Identifier: QM-Ph-M470
Scope and Contents

Records of the Hicksite preparative meeting and of its predecessor, the pre-Separation preparative meeting. Included are: minutes,1702-1705, 1832-1834, 1854-1859, 1862-1951; burials, 1682-1919 and 1918-1929; deaths 1702-1808; membership, 1848-1887 and 1929-1930; women's minutes, 1819-1836 and 1848-1884; financial and property records; and miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1682-1952
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Mickleton Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M490
Identifier: QM-Ph-M490
Scope and Contents

Records of Mickleton Monthly Meeting, 1954-1971 and 1996-2018. Includes minutes, 1954-1971, 1996-2006 (gaps), and 2007-18. The inactive member record forms for pre-1990 members are at the Gloucester County Historical Society; a digitized photocopy is available here.

Dates: 1954-2018
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 Monthly Meeting (Langhorne, Pa.) Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-M500
Scope and Contents

Records of Middletown Monthly Meeting, 1649-2016, include: vital records; men’s and joint session minutes; women’s minutes; ministers’ and elders’ minutes; financial records; miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1649 - 2022
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

Middletown Preparative Meeting (Langhorne, Pa.) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M510
Identifier: QM-Ph-M510
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the Hicksite and pre-Separation men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1848-1913; women's minutes, 1859-1893; account books, 1800-1923; trustees' minutes, 1792-1904.

Dates: 1792-1923
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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