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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:

Newberry Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/N494
Identifier: QM-B-N494
Scope and Contents

Records of Newberry Preparative Meeting, 1811, 1935, and n.d. Includes financial and property records 1811, and miscellaneous 1935 and n.d.

Dates: 1811-1935

Nottingham Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/N681
Identifier: QM-B-N681
Scope and Contents

Records of Nottingham Monthly Meeting, 1680-2008. Includes men's and joint minutes 1730-2008, women's minutes 1730-1892, vital records 1680-1970, Ministers and Elders minutes 1895-1926, financial and property records 1763-1925, and miscellaneous 1765-1983.

Dates: 1680 - 2021

Nottingham Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/N685
Identifier: QM-B-N685
Scope and Contents

Records of Nottingham Quarterly Meeting, 1819-1990. Includes men's and joint minutes 1819-1990, women's minutes 1819-93, Ministers and Elders minutes 1819-1973, financial and property records 1886-1918, and reports to Yearly Meeting 1835-82.

Dates: 1819-1990

Oxford Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/O944
Identifier: QM-B-O944
Scope and Contents

Records of Oxford Preparative Meeting, 1878-1927. Includes minutes 1883-1927, First-day school minutes 1878-1904.

Dates: 1878-1927

Patuxent Monthly Meeting (1871-1942) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/P388
Identifier: QM-B-P388
Scope and Contents

Records of Patuxent Monthly Meeting, 1871-1942, including Membership Records, 1809-1939; Marriage Records, 1874-1926; minutes of Men's Meeting and Joint, 1871-1942; Minutes of Women's Meeting, 1871-1889.

Dates: 1809-1942

Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/P571
Identifier: QM-B-P571
Scope and Contents

Records of Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting, 1691-2006. Includes men's and joint minutes 1772-2006 [gaps], women's minutes 1772-1885, vital records 1691-1997, Ministers and Elders minutes 1881-1913 and 1963-96, financial and property records 1771-2006, and miscellaneous 1885-2006. Also includes Pipe Creek Preparative Meeting minutes, 1891-1904, in volume 1891-1921.

Dates: 1691 - 2006

Potomac Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/P684
Identifier: QM-B-P684
Scope and Contents

Records of Potomac Quarterly Meeting, 1947-2000. Includes minutes 1951-2000, Ministry and Counsel minutes 1951-1968, and miscellaneous 1947-1991.

Dates: 1947-2000

Quaker Lake Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/Q800
Identifier: QM-B-Q800

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

Roanoke Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/R636
Identifier: QM-B-R636
Scope and Contents

Records of Roanoke Monthly Meeting, 1989-1999. Includes men's minutes 1989-1995, and miscellaneous 1991-1999.

Dates: 1967-1999