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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:

Chester River Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/C462
Identifier: QM-Ph-C462
Scope and Contents

Records of Chester River Monthly Meeting include: minutes, 1976-2002, miscellaneous papers, and marriage records, 1980.

Dates: 1976-2012
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Chesterfield Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-C470
Scope and Contents Records of the united monthly meeting and of its predecessors, 1682-1977, as follows: minutes of the pre-Separation meeting, 1684-1827; minutes of the Hicksite meeting, 1827-1956; minutes of the united meeting, 1932-1977; minutes of the Orthodox meeting, 1820-1932; minutes of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 1688-1824; minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1827-1852; minutes of the Orthodox women’s meeting, 1810-1903; minutes of the ministers and elders’ meeting, 1875-1953; vital...
Dates: 1682-1977
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Chestnut Hill Meeting of Friends (1924-1933) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/C483
Identifier: QM-Ph-C483
Scope and Contents

Records of Chestnut Hill Meeting, 1924-1932, include: joint minutes 1924-1932.

Dates: 1924-1932.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Chestnut Hill Monthly Meeting (1933- ) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/C482
Identifier: QM-Ph-C482
Scope and Contents

Records of Chestnut Hill Monthly Meeting, 1932-2007, include: burials chart; marriage certificates, 1941-2000; memberships, removals, transfer, 1934-90s; joint minutes, 1932-2007; ministers and elders minutes, 1940-1942, 1953-1973; overseers minutes, 1959-1973.

Dates: 1932-2007
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Chichester Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/C490
Identifier: QM-Ph-C490
Scope and Contents

Records include: pre-Separation men's meeting minutes, 1804-1813; Hicksite women's minutes, 1843-1899; a pre-Separation account book, 1781-1875; pre-Separation trustees' minutes, 1802-1823.

Dates: 1765-1899
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Colora Monthly Meeting (1945-1980) Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-C500
Scope and Contents

Records include: Membership, 1945; Minutes, 1945-1949.

Dates: 1945-1949
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Colora Preparative Meeting (1890-1945) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/C502
Identifier: QM-Ph-C502
Scope and Contents

Men’s and Joint Minutes, 1890-1945; Women’s Minutes, 1890-1903.

Dates: 1890-1945
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Columbia Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/C600
Identifier: QM-Ph-C600
Scope and Contents

Records include: minutes of the Orthodox men's meeting, 1819-29; Orthodox women's minutes, 1812-29; pre-Separation and Hicksite vital records, 1814-1827.

Dates: 1812-1829
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Concord and Chester Quarterly Meetings Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-C690
Scope and Contents Records include: minutes of the pre-Separation meeting, 1684-1827; minutes of the Hicksite meeting (1827-1955), the Orthodox meeting (1827-1955), the United meeting (since 1955), the pre-Separation women's meeting (1695-1827), the Hicksite women's meeting (1827-1895), and the Orthodox women's meeting (1827-1919); minutes of the pre-Separation meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1701-1827; the Hicksite meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1827-1918; the Orthodox meeting of Ministers and Elders,...
Dates: 1684 - 2019
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Concord Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-C610
Scope and Contents

Pre-Separation, Hicksite, Orthodox and United records include: Minutes since 1684; vital records since 1679; women's meeting minutes, 1715-1902; property records; financial records, and miscellaneous papers, 1776-1801 and 1959-2011.

The volume of manumissions has been digitized and is available online; born-digital financial records 1999-2011 are available to on-campus users only.

Dates: 1679-2012
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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