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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:

East Branch Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/E210
Identifier: QM-Ph-E210
Dates: 1828-1858
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

East Branch Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/E200
Identifier: QM-Ph-E200
Dates: 1800-1833
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Easton Preparative Meeting (Burlington County, NJ) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/E100
Identifier: QM-Ph-E100
Scope and Contents

Records of the Orthodox branch of Easton Preparative Meeting, 1810-1944, include: men's minutes, 1810-1944; women's minutes, 1810-1900; financial records, 1870-1899; trustees' school fund account book, 1824-1900.

Dates: 1804-1944
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Evesham Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-E800
Scope and Contents Records of the Hicksite and Orthodox monthly meetings and their predecessor, the pre-Separation meeting, 1682-1956. Includes: Hicksite men's minutes, 1827-1884; pre-Separation/Orthodox men's and joint minutes, 1908-1956; Hicksite women's minutes, 1828-1884; pre-Separation/Orthodox women's minutes, 1812-1908; vital records of both branches, 1682-1884 and 1956; minutes of Ministers and Elders, 1762-1800 (pre-Separation), 1828-1884 (Hicksite), 1840-1884 (Orthodox); and other miscellaneous...
Dates: 1682-1956
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Evesham Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-E910
Scope and Contents Pre-Separation and Hicksite meeting records include: minutes of the men's meeting, 1828-1884; and minutes of the women's meeting, 1801-1884. Also included are two account books of the women's meeting, 1830-1868 and 1868-1884. Orthodox and United meeting records include: burials, 1816-1940; minutes of the men's meeting, 1762-1970; minutes of the women’s meeting, 1828-1908; account books, 1838-1970; school trustees minutes and accounts, 1795-1970; miscellaneous papers, 1943-1960, n.d.; deeds...
Dates: 1762-1970
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Exeter Monthly Meeting (1955- ) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/E950
Identifier: QM-Ph-E950
Scope and Contents

Records of Exeter Monthly Meeting, 1956-2015. Includes: Minutes, 1956-2015.

Dates: 1956-2015
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Fallowfield Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-F300
Scope and Contents Records include: pre-Separation and Hicksite mnutes, 1811-1980; pre-Separation, Hicksite, Orthodox, and United vital records,1740-1934, including births and deaths, burial chart, marriage records, membership lists, removals; pre-Separation and Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1811-1893; minutes of Hicksite Ministers and Elders, 1829-1916, and of Worship and Ministry, 1919-1959; Hicksite Ercildoun First Day School minutes; 1893-1935; Hicksite financial records, 1903-1961; miscellaneous...
Dates: 1740-1998
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Fallowfield Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-F320
Scope and Contents

Records of Fallowfield Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1797-1936, as follows: Minutes of the men's meeting and joint sessions, 1848-1936; women's meeting minutes, 1797-1806 and 1823-1893; membership lists, ca. 1805, [190-?], 1910; treasurer's accounts, 1895-1907. Records of Fallowfield Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) include: men’s meeting minutes, 1827-1891; women’s meeting minutes, 1847-1883; membership, 1858-1884; account books, 1890-1895.

Dates: 1797-1936
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Falls Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-F370
Scope and Contents

Records of Falls Preparative Meeting, 1680-1890, as follows: pre-Separation men's minutes, 1765-1827; Hicksite men's minutes, 1827-1890; Orthodox women's minutes, 1873-1880; pre-Separation and Hicksite account books.

Dates: 1765-1890
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Fallsington Friends and Falls Monthly Meetings Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-F350
Scope and Contents

Records include: minutes since 1683; vital records, 1680-1960; Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1683-1819 & 1827-1891 and Orthodox women's minutes, 1820-1918; Hicksite ministers and elders' minutes, 1756-1904 and Orthodox ministers and elders' minutes, 1859-1923; school committee minutes, 1823-1855; miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1680 - 2007
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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