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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 5 Collections and/or Records:

Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/C372
Identifier: QM-B-C372
Scope and Contents

Records of Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting, 1729-1939. Includes men's minutes 1739-1893, women's minutes 1754-1880, worship & ministry and its predecessors 1791-1837, vital records 1729-1916, and miscellaneous 1939.

Dates: 1729-1939

Goose Creek Monthly Meeting (Bedford County, Va.) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/G665
Identifier: QM-B-G665
Scope and Contents

Records of Goose Creek Monthly Meeting, 1789-1820. Includes men's minutes 1794-1814, women's minutes 1794-1814, vital records 1789-1820, and miscellaneous.

Dates: 1789-1820

Richmond Monthly Meeting Records (including Cedar Creek)

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/R534
Identifier: QM-B-R534
Scope and Contents

Records of Cedar Creek and Richmond Monthly Meetings and their predecessors, 1729-1999. Includes Men's and Joint minutes 1739-1974, Women's minutes 1754-1890, vital records, 1729-1916, Worship and Ministry and its predecessors 1791-1949, and financial records 1875-1917. Also includes Richmond Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1815-1818, Camp Creek Monthly Meeting records, 1747-1753, and Cedar Creek Preparative Meeting Minutes 1790-1792.

Dates: 1729 - 1999

South River Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/S689
Identifier: QM-B-S689
Scope and Contents

Records of South River Monthly Meeting, 1757-1848. Includes men's minutes 1757-1839, women's minutes 1763-1842, and vital records 1757-1848.

Dates: 1757-1848

Western Quarterly Meeting (1797-1817) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/W479
Identifier: QM-B-W479
Scope and Contents

Records of Western Quarterly Meeting, 1797-1817. Includes men's minutes 1797-1817, and women's minutes 1797-1817.

Dates: 1797-1817