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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:

Mill Creek Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M560
Identifier: QM-Ph-M560
Scope and Contents

Records of Mill Creek Monthly Meeting, 1955-1975.

Dates: 1955-1975
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Mill Creek Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M565
Identifier: QM-Ph-M565
Scope and Contents

Records of Mill Creek Preparative Meeting, 1841-1910, as follows: Hicksite men's minutes, 1841-1883; Hicksite women's minutes, 1854-1891; deeds, 1841, 1880, & 1910.

Dates: 1841-1910
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Millville Monthly Meeting Records (including Muncy and Fishing Creek)

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M570
Identifier: QM-Ph-M570
Scope and Contents

Records include: Hicksite men's minutes, 1830-1906; Hicksite women's minutes, 1830-1876; pre-Separation and Hicksite vital records, including births and deaths, 1788-1923; removals issued, 1897-1907; membership statistics, 1897-1935; School Committee minutes, 1886-1912.

Dates: 1788-1995
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Millville Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M580
Identifier: QM-Ph-M580
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1838-1894; minutes of the women's meeting, 1863-1893.

Dates: 1838-1894
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Arch Street Friends) Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-P455
Scope and Contents Records of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting -- pre-Separation, Orthodox, and post-Reunification -- include: vital records, 1672-2000; men’s minutes, 1682-1978; women’s minutes, 1686-1926; financial records, 1683-1990; trustees’ records, 1683-1970; property records, 1683-1970; property committee records, 1697-1970; committee records, 1711-1970; miscellaneous papers, 1664-1974; Friends Select School records, 1832-1968; records of the Philadelphia Association for the Instruction of Poor Children,...
Dates: 1664-2000
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Moorestown and Chester Monthly Meetings Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-M600
Scope and Contents Records of Moorestown Monthly Meeting, 1829-1977, include: Orthodox membership, 1912-1958; other vital records, 1804-1988; minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting, 1804-1827; minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1827-1951; minutes of the Orthodox joint meeting, 1940-1951; minutes of the United meeting, 1951-1974; minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1827-1900; minutes of the Orthodox/United Meeting of Worship and Ministry, 1944-1977 and of...
Dates: 1794-2005
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Mount Holly Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-M640
Scope and Contents Records of Mount Holly Monthly Meeting, 1706-2014, include: vital records, 1706-1947; Pre-Separation, Hicksite, and United men’s minutes, 1776-1984 and 1989-2006/2010-2014; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1827-1828; Hicksite women's minutes, 1776-1879; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1827-1828; minutes of the Hicksite and United Meeting of Worship and Ministry and of its predecessors, the Meeting of Ministers and Elders and the Meeting of Ministry and Counsel, 1839-1857 and 1890-1956; minutes of the...
Dates: 1706-2014
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Mount Holly Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-M650
Scope and Contents

Records of the Mount Holly Preparative Meeting, 1782-1902, include: vital records, 1782-1877; Hicksite men's minutes, 1816-1894; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1827-1902; rough minutes of the pre-separation men's meeting, 1823-1827; Hicksite women's minutes, 1865-1880; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1849-1891; rough minutes of the pre-separation women's meeting, 1797-1811; account book and other financial records, 1873-1895; Mt. Holly Friends Day School account books and receipt books, 1793-1883.

Dates: 1793-1895
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Mount Preparative Meeting (including Arney's Mount and Shreve's Mount) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M670
Identifier: QM-Ph-M670
Scope and Contents

Records include: minutes of the pre-Separation and Hicksite men's meeting and joint meetings, 1808-1870; minutes of the pre-Separation and Hicksite women's meeting, 1824-1847; an account book, 1797-1882; and a burial ground wall account book, 1860-1962.

Dates: 1797-1962
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Mullica Hill Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M800
Identifier: QM-Ph-M800
Scope and Contents

Records of Mullica Hill Monthly Meeting, 1873-2012.

Dates: 1873-2012
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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