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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:

Southampton Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/S640
Identifier: QM-Ph-S640
Scope and Contents

Records include: Minutes of the united meeting, 1947-1993.

Dates: 1947-[ongoing].

Southern Quarterly and Half-Yearly Meetings Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-S650
Scope and Contents

Records of the Southern Quarterly and Southern Half-Yearly Meetings and of the Quarterly Meeting on the Eastern Shore, 1756-1994, include: Orthodox vital records, 1832-1871; Hicksite/United minute books, 1759-2010; Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1756-1816; Hicksite financial papers, 1793-1860; extracts from Hicksite minutes, 1784; miscellaneous Hicksite correspondence, 1970.

Dates: 1756-2010

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]

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

Spruce Street Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/S701
Identifier: QM-Ph-S701
Scope and Contents

Records of the Hicksite preparative meeting include: Minutes of the men's meeting and joint sessions, 1867-1894, and minutes of the women's meeting, 1843-1893.

Dates: 1843-1894

Stanton Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/S710
Identifier: QM-Ph-S710
Scope and Contents

Record of the Hicksite preparative meeting include: Minutes, 1826-1891; subscription book for meeting's quota, 1820-1884; miscellaneous financial papers, 1828-1891; burial record for Charles Dickerson, 1864.

Dates: 1820-1891.

State College Friends Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/S720
Identifier: QM-Ph-S720
Scope and Contents

Records include: Minutes of the Independent and United Monthly Meeting for Business since 1925; Membership records, 1932-1994; Visitors' Register, 1927-1966; Newsletters, 1953-2008.

Dates: 1925 - 2008

Stony Brook Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-S715
Overview

Minutes, vital records and financial records of Stony Brook Preparative Meeting from 1796-1891.

Dates: 1796-1891

Stroudsburg Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/S750
Identifier: QM-Ph-S750
Scope and Contents

Records of Stroudsburg Monthly Meeting, 1758-1839, include: vital records, 1758-1839; men's minutes, 1815-1839; women's minutes, 1815-1839; Ministers and Elders' minutes, 1815-1839.

Dates: 1758-1839

Stroudsburg Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-S760
Scope and Contents

Records of Stroudsburg Preparative Meeting, 1829-1894, include: men's meeting minutes, 1865-1877; women's minute book, 1843-1873 (including deaths, 1872-1894, minutes of joint session 1894 1mo25, acknowledgement to Richmond Monthly Meeting, n.d.); membership list including Orthodox Friends, 1829 12mo13.

Dates: 1829-1894