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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:

Gettysburg Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/G4
Identifier: QM-B-G4
Scope and Contents

The Gettysburg Monthly Meeting collection consists of digital minutes of the monthly meeting for business, compiled by the clerk into one combined file for each year, 2015-2021. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.

Dates: 2015 - 2021
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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

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

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/G661
Identifier: QM-B-G661
Scope and Contents

Records of Goose Creek Monthly Meeting, 1732-1963 and 1996-1999. Includes men's and joint minutes 1785-1950, women's minutes 1785-1889, vital records 1732-1950, and miscellaneous 1797-1878 and 1996-99.

Dates: 1732-1963/1996-1999
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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

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

Henrico Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/H467
Identifier: QM-B-H467
Scope and Contents

Records of Henrico Monthly Meeting, 1699-1837. Includes men's minutes 1699-1836, women's minutes 1762-1834, and vital records 1699-1837.

Dates: 1699-1837
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Hopewell Centre Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-B-H671
Scope and Contents

Records of Hopewell Centre and Hopewell Monthly Meetings, 1754-ongoing. Includes men's and joint minutes 1759-1963, women's minutes 1813-1902, vital records 1754-1942, and miscellaneous 1778, 1851-1887, 1992-93.

Dates: 1754-1993
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Hopewell Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/H672
Identifier: QM-B-H672
Scope and Contents

Records of Hopewell Preparative Meeting, 1791-1849, 1886-1907. Includes men's minutes 1791-1849.

Dates: 1791-1907
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Huntington Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/H862
Identifier: QM-B-H862
Scope and Contents

Records of Huntington Preparative Meeting, 1833-90. Includes men's minutes 1849-64, women's minutes 1833-74, and miscellaneous 1868-90.

Dates: 1833-1890.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Langley Hill Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/L361
Identifier: QM-B-L361
Scope and Contents

Records of Langley Hill Monthly Meeting, which include paper and electronic records (which include those digitized by LHFM from paper and those that were born digital). LHFM has historically combined all of its records into a single annual file, arranged chronologically, which includes all of the meeting for business records along with related correspondence and newsletters.

Dates: 1918-2020 (bulk 1961-2020)
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections