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QM/Ph/MM. Constituent Monthly, Preparative, and Quarterly meetings

 Record Group Term
Identifier: QM/Ph/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 260 Collections and/or Records:

Willistown Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/W560
Identifier: QM-Ph-W560
Scope and Contents

Records of Willistown Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1830-1940, as follows : minutes, 1867-1934 ; women's minutes, 1870-1880 ; trustees' minutes, 1931-1940 ; account books, 1830-1832, 1884-1935 ; trustees' account book, 1914-1932 ; women's library circulation record, 1844-1858.

Dates: 1830-1940
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Wilmington Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-W570
Scope and Contents Records of Wilmington Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, 1750-2017, as follows: Orthodox vital records, 1790-1961; Hicksite vital records, 1735-1961; Hicksite minutes, 1750-1981; Orthodox minutes, 1827-1945; Hicksite women's minutes, 1720-1891; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1827-1909; Hicksite minutes of Worship & Ministry and its predecessors, 1757-1960; Orthodox ministers’ and elders’ minutes, 1829-1945; Hicksite and Orthodox financial records (includes Orthodox), 1788-1963; scrapbooks,...
Dates: 1713-2017
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Wilmington Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-W580
Scope and Contents

Records of Wilmington Preparative Meeting, 1811-1891, include: pre-Separation rough minutes, 1812-1819; Hicksite minutes, 1857-1891; Orthodox minutes, 1831-1848; minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1870-1891; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1883-1907; Hicksite financial records, 1811-1891; and minutes of the Society for the Relief of the Poor, 1813-1815.

Dates: 1811-1891
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Woodbury Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-W600
Scope and Contents Records of Woodbury Monthly Meeting, 1702-ongoing, as follows: pre-Separation, Hicksite, Orthodox (to 1922), and United men's & joint minutes, 1785-2004, Orthodox women's minutes, 1785-1902, Hicksite women's minutes, 1827-1893, pre-Separation and Orthodox marriages, 1786-1927, Hicksite marriages, 1828-1916, pre-Separation and Orthodox births & burials, Hicksite burials, 1852-1832, pre-Separation and Hicksite Ministers & Elders minutes, 1805-1921, financial records, records of...
Dates: 1702-2004
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Woodbury Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-W610
Scope and Contents

Records of Woodbury Preparative Meeting, 1770-1954, include: Hicksite minutes, 1770-1920; Orthodox minutes, 1828-1954; Hicksite women's minutes, 1828-1893; Hicksite financial and legal records, 1840-1951; and a book list of the library.

Dates: 1770-1951
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Woodstown Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/W630
Identifier: QM-Ph-W630
Scope and Contents

Records of Woodstown Monthly Meeting, 1928-2016, include: Hicksite/United minutes 1929-2016; Hicksite membership register, 1928-1958; minutes of the Hicksite Meeting of Worship and Ministry and of its predecessors, the Meeting of Ministry and Counsel and the Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1897-1963.

Dates: 1928 - 2016
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Woolwich Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/W650
Identifier: QM-Ph-W650
Scope and Contents

Records of Woolwich Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite), 1834-1929, as follows: men's minutes, 1835-1884 and 1924-1929, and women's minutes, 1834-51, 1851-75, and 1875-84.

Dates: 1834-1929.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Wrightstown Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-W700
Scope and Contents

Records of Wrightstown Monthly Meeting, 1684-2005, include: vital records, 1684-1916; pre-Separation, Hicksite men's and joint session minutes, 1734-2023, including born-digital minutes; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1827-1833; pre-Separation and Hicksite women’s minutes, 1734-1886 ; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1827-1833; Wrightstown First Day School records, 1899-1918; and other miscellaneous records, 1784-2005.

Dates: 1684 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Wrightstown Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/W710
Identifier: QM-Ph-W710
Scope and Contents

Records include: Hicksite women's minutes, 1832-1854.

Dates: 1832-1854
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Yardley Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/Y300
Identifier: QM-Ph-Y300
Scope and Contents

Records of Yardley Monthly Meeting, 1955-1976, as follows: minutes, 1955-1961, 1961-1970, and 1970-1976, and newsletter. Digital scans of printed paper minutes from 1993-1996 and 1998-2012. Minutes 2013-2022 are born-digital (searchable) pdf files compiled by the meeting as one combined file per year.

Dates: 1955 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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