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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:

West Chester Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-W420
Scope and Contents Records of West Chester Preparative Meeting, 1811-1943, include: minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting and joint sessions, 1841-1940; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1866-1932; Hicksite women's minutes, 1862-1888; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1875-1920; Hicksite financial records, 1864-1928; Orthodox financial records, 1876-1908; school committee papers, 1887-1897; property committee minutes, 1900-1923; history of the meeting chiefly concerning property ownership and buildings, 1881; miscellaneous...
Dates: 1811-1943
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Grove Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/W440
Identifier: QM-Ph-W440
Scope and Contents

Records of West Grove Monthly Meeting and West Grove Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1919-2014, include: Minutes, 1919-2014; vital records, 1919-1962; minutes of the Meeting of Ministry and Counsel, 1919-1935; West Grove First Day School minutes, 1918-1947; minutes and other papers of the Association for the Care of Friends' Burial Ground at Lower New Garden, 1914-1977; West Grove Friends' Forum minutes, 1925-1942; miscellaneous papers, 1935-1938; Treasurer's records, 2012-14.

Dates: 1914-2014
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Grove Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-W450
Scope and Contents Records of the West Grove Preparative Meeting, 1788-1979, include: Hicksite minutes, 1833-1949; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1846-1946; Hicksite women's minutes, 1853-1889; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1870-1919; Hicksite financial and property records, 1830-1973; Orthodox financial records, 1817-1915; Hicksite First Day School minutes, 1880-1912; Young Friends' Association minutes, 1904-1912), burial charts, 1910; burial permits, 1917-1925; account books and other financial papers, 1835-1910; West...
Dates: 1788-1979
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Western Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/W470
Identifier: QM-Ph-W470
Scope and Contents Records of Western Quarterly Meeting, 1758-2019, include: minutes, 1758-2019 (2013-2019 minutes are digital); pre-Separation and Hicksite women's minutes, 1758-1900; Ministers and Elders' minutes, 1763-1985; financial records; and miscellaneous papers; Orthodox records of the William Jackson bequest for the education of children of West Grove Preparative and Western Quarterly Meetings, 1835-1929 (including minutes of the Trustees, 1836-1900, accounts, 1849-71, 1871-94, & 1894-1928, and...
Dates: 1758 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Westfield Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/W478
Identifier: QM-Ph-W478
Scope and Contents

Records include: Hicksite and United minutes, 1921-[ongoing].

Dates: Majority of material found within 1921-2015
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Westfield Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-W480
Scope and Contents Records of Westfield Preparative Meeting, 1801-1921, as follows: Hicksite minutes, 1801-1921; Orthodox/United men’s minutes, 1827-1956; Hicksite women's minutes, 1801-1901; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1827-1911; Hicksite burial records, 1813-1881; Hicksite graveyard accounts, 1828-1917; Orthodox financial records, 1828-1917; Hicksite school trustees' minutes, 1885-1902; Orthodox school trustees’ minutes, 1829-1884; First Day School minutes, 1871-1888; account book, catalogue and subscription...
Dates: 1801-1921
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Westtown Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/W500
Identifier: QM-Ph-W500
Scope and Contents

The original records of Westtown Monthly Meeting include: vital records: removals, 1920-1942, and membership, 1920-1969; joint meeting minutes, 1920-1990; ministers and elders minutes, 1920-1988 (Preparative Meeting); overseers minutes, 1967-2000.

Dates: 1920-[ongoing]
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Whiteland Preparative Meeting of Friends Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/P100
Identifier: QM-Ph-P100
Scope and Contents

Records include: Orthodox meeting minutes, 1822-1853 and 1858-1902; records of the building of the Whiteland Meetinghouse in 1879

Dates: 1822-1922
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Wicomico River Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/W520
Identifier: QM-Ph-W520
Scope and Contents

Records of Wicomico River Friends Meeting, 1987-2003. Includes minutes, 1987-2003.

Dates: 1955-2003
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Willistown Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/W550
Identifier: QM-Ph-W550
Scope and Contents

Records of Willistown Monthly Meeting, 1936-2006, include: Hicksite and United minutes since 1939; Hicksite and United trustees' minutes, 1942-1980 ; Hicksite and United financial records, 1936-1984 ; minutes of Willistown Preparative Meeting (1940-1952), 1935-1952.

Dates: 1936-2006
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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