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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 102 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Bendersville Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
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

Bethesda Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/B481
Identifier: QM-B-B481
Abstract

Records of Bethesda Monthly Meeting, 1971-2020. Includes minutes 1971-2001/2005-08 and digital minutes 2016-2020, plus some membership records and a run of newsletters.

Dates: 1971 - 2020
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

Bethel Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
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

Blackwater and Upper Monthly Meetings Records

 Collection
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
Dates: 1989 - 2018
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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