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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 88 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Bendersville Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/B463
Identifier: QM-B-B463
Scope and Contents

Records of Bendersville Preparative Meeting, 1893-1905, including Men's Minutes, 1893-1903; Property Records, 1905; and Miscellaneous Papers, 1890-1891.

Dates: 1890-1903
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Bethel Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/B477
Identifier: QM-B-B477
Scope and Contents

Records of Bethel Monthly Meeting, 1921-1977. Includes men's minutes 1921-1977 and worship & ministry and its predecessors 1921-1963.

Dates: 1921-1977
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Bethesda Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/B481
Identifier: QM-B-B481
Scope and Contents

Records of Bethesda Monthly Meeting, 1971-2008. Includes minutes 1971-2001/2005-08, vital records 1972-79, committees 1984, and miscellaneous 1974-77.

Dates: 1971-2008
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Bethesda Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/B482
Identifier: QM-B-B482
Scope and Contents

Records of Bethesda Preparative Meeting, 1962-71. Includes minutes 1962-70, vital records 1963-71, and miscellaneous 1963-67.

Dates: 1962-1971
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Black Creek Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/B533
Identifier: QM-B-B533
Scope and Contents

Records of Black Creek Monthly Meeting, 1907-1966. Includes men's and joint minutes 1907-1966 and Worship & Ministry and its predecessors minutes 1907-1966.

Dates: 1907-1966
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Blackwater and Upper Monthly Meetings Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/B541
Identifier: QM-B-B541
Scope and Contents

Records of Blackwater and Upper Monthly Meetings, 1765-1832. Includes men's minutes 1765-1776 (Blackwater), 1779-1807 (Blackwater), 1800-1832 (Upper); women's minutes 1752-1775 (Blackwater), 1792-1803 (Blackwater), and 1800-1832 (Upper); vital records 1760-1810, and miscellaneous.

Dates: 1765-1832
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Broad Creek Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/B761
Identifier: QM-B-B761
Scope and Contents

Records of Broad Creek Preparative Meeting, 1871-1900. Includes women's minutes 1871-76, and minutes of the Friends' Association of Broad Creek Meeting, 1898-1900. Vol.2.1 also includes First Day School attendance, 1912 & 1919, and minutes, 1912.

Dates: 1871-1900
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Carlisle Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/C371
Identifier: QM-B-C371
Scope and Contents

Records of Carlisle Monthly Meeting, 1989-96. Includes minutes and associated documents 1989-96.

Dates: 1989-1996
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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