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QM/B/MM. Constituent Monthly, Preparative, and Quarterly meetings

 Record Group Term
Identifier: QM/B/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 11 Collections and/or Records:

Baltimore Monthly Meeting for the Eastern District Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/B351
Identifier: QM-B-B351
Scope and Contents

Records of Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends for the Eastern District, and its predecessor Baltimore Monthly Meeting (1792-1807), 1729-1819. Includes men's and joint minutes 1792-1819, women's minutes 1792-1819, vital records 1729-1819, financial and property records 1806-1819, and miscellaneous 1783-1819.

Dates: 1729-1819

Baltimore Monthly Meeting (Homewood) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/B349
Identifier: QM-B-B349
Scope and Contents

Records of Baltimore Monthly Meeting, Homewood, 1673-1991. Includes vital records 1674-1968, Men's minutes 1673-1975, Women's minutes 1819-1961, Worship & Ministry and its predecessors 1793-1969, financial records 1842-1979, property records 1713-1968, committee records 1831-1991, and miscellaneous 1698-1991.

Dates: 1719-[ongoing]

Baltimore Monthly Meeting (Stony Run) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/B353
Identifier: QM-B-B353
Scope and Contents

Records of Baltimore Monthly Meeting, Stony Run, and its immediate predecessor, Baltimore Monthly Meeting for the Western District, c.1658-1998. Includes men's and joint minutes 1807-1994, women's minutes 1807-1897, vital records c1658-1994, Ministers and Elders minutes 1834-1992, financial records 1829-1992, Misc 1808-1995, library Comm 1820-1992, newsletters 1920-1998, trustees 1830-1995, benevolent society 1840-1980, first day school 1860-1917, Taylor home 1931-1976.

Dates: 1658-1998

Baltimore Preparative Meeting for the Western District Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-B-B356
Scope and Contents

Records of Baltimore Preparative Meeting for the Western District, 1813-1915. Includes men's and joint minutes 1813-1915, women's minutes 1846-84, financial and property records 1877-1909.

Dates: 1813-1915

Baltimore Preparative Meeting of Friends for the Eastern and Western Districts (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/B354
Identifier: QM-B-B354
Scope and Contents

Records of Baltimore Preparative Meeting of Friends for the Eastern and Western Districts, 1828-1930. Includes men's and joint minutes 1856-1873, women's minutes 1828-1873, minutes of Meeting of Ministers and Elders 1829-1846, minutes of Meeting of Ministry and Oversight 1877-1905, minutes of Meeting of Ministry and Oversight and Committe on Pastoral Care, 1906-1930.

Dates: 1828-1930

Baltimore Preparative Meeting of Friends for the Eastern District (Pre-Separation and Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/B355
Identifier: QM-B-B355
Scope and Contents

Records of Baltimore Preparative Meeting of Friends for the Eastern District and its predecessors, Baltimore Preparative Meeting (1781-1807) and Patapsco Preparative Meeting, 1776-1916. Includes men's and joint minutes 1776-1916, women's minutes 1843-66, vital records 1819, financial and property records 1800-88, and miscellaneous 1807, 1893-1910.

Dates: 1776-1916

Baltimore Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-B-B358
Scope and Contents Records of Baltimore Quarterly Meeting, pre-Separation, Hicksite, and Orthodox, 1675-1969. Pre-Separation and Hicksite records include: men's and joint minutes, 1675-1949; women's minutes, 1775-1893; Ministers and Elders minutes, 1759-1951; and miscellaneous records, 1812-1963. Orthodox records include: men's and joint minutes, 1710-1775, 1807-1823, 1856-1941, 1956-1969; women's minutes, 1703-1766, 1774, 1855-1900; Mininstry and Oversight and its predecessors, 1852-1941; Baltimore Junior...
Dates: 1675-1969

Federal Hill Mission Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/F434
Identifier: QM-B-F434
Scope and Contents

Records of Federal Hill Mission Meeting, 1879-1906. Includes membership records 1883-1905, minutes 1879-1906, Building Committee records 1889-1885, minutes of Bible School Association, 1886; miscellaneous documents, 1881-1898.

Dates: 1879-1906

Gunpowder Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/G861
Identifier: QM-B-G861
Scope and Contents

Records of Gunpowder Monthly Meeting, 1687-2003. Includes men's and joint minutes 1739-2003, women's minutes 1742-1873, vital records 1687-1958, Ministers and Elders minutes 1905-42, financial and property records 1830-1923, and miscellaneous 1842-1982.

Dates: 1687-2003

Gunpowder Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/G862
Identifier: QM-B-G862
Scope and Contents

Records of Gunpowder Preparative Meeting, 1719-1852. Includes Minutes, 1829-1852 and Deaths of North Carolina Friends, 1719-1791.

Dates: 1719-1852