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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 261 Collections and/or Records:

Haverford Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/H390
Identifier: QM-Ph-H390
Scope and Contents

Records of Haverford Quarterly Meeting, 1955-ongoing, as follows: minutes, 1955-64, & 1988-98, 2001-06, and Clerk's correspondence, 1993-98.

Dates: 1955-2006
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Hockessin Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/H620
Identifier: QM-Ph-H620
Scope and Contents

Records of Hockessin Preparative Meeting, 1818-1893, as follows: minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting, 1818-1825; minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting, 1825-1886; women's meeting minutes, 1863-1893; account book, 1822-1854; subscription lists for quota, 1830-1837 & n.d.

Dates: 1818-1893
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Homeville Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-H640
Scope and Contents

Records include: Hicksite minutes, 1877-1917; papers of the Homeville Cemetery Company, 1914-1915.

Dates: 1838-1917
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Makefield Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-M200
Scope and Contents

Records of Makefield Monthly Meeting, 1736-2021, include: Hicksite men's meeting and joint session minutes, 1820-1975; vital records, 1736-2021; Hicksite women's minutes, 1820-1892; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1827; ministers and elders' minutes, 1855-1892; treasurer's account book, 1821-1926; account book of Makefield Young Friends Association, 1923-1934; membership committee minutes, 1925-1926.

Dates: 1736 - 2021
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Makefield Preparative (including Makefield and Newtown Preparative ((Orthodox)) Meetings Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M340
Identifier: QM-Ph-M340
Scope and Contents

Records of the Makefield Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), the Makefield and Newtown Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), and their pre-Separation predecessor, 1793-1926. Records include: Hicksite men’s minutes, 1793-1926; Hicksite women's minutes, 1802-1825 and 1836-1892; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1827; births and deaths, 1862-1902; membership, 1820; financial records, 1804-1810.

Dates: 1793-1926
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Merchantville Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-M455
Scope and Contents

Records of Merchantville Meeting include: independent meeting minutes, 1897-1923.

Dates: 1897-1923
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Merion Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-M460
Scope and Contents

Records of Merion Monthly Meeting, 1888-ongoing, as follows: Hicksite and United vital records, 1942-[ongoing]; minutes, 1951-2019; property records, 1891-2001; Hicksite financial records, 1888-1986; and miscellaneous papers. Digital minutes (2001-2009) and newsletters 2021-ongoing also included. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.

Dates: 1888-2022
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Merion Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M470
Identifier: QM-Ph-M470
Scope and Contents

Records of the Hicksite preparative meeting and of its predecessor, the pre-Separation preparative meeting. Included are: minutes,1702-1705, 1832-1834, 1854-1859, 1862-1951; burials, 1682-1919 and 1918-1929; deaths 1702-1808; membership, 1848-1887 and 1929-1930; women's minutes, 1819-1836 and 1848-1884; financial and property records; and miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1682-1952
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Mickleton Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M490
Identifier: QM-Ph-M490
Scope and Contents

Records of Mickleton Monthly Meeting, 1954-1971 and 1996-2018. Includes minutes, 1954-1971, 1996-2006 (gaps), and 2007-18. The inactive member record forms for pre-1990 members are at the Gloucester County Historical Society; a digitized photocopy is available here.

Dates: 1954-2018
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Middletown Monthly Meeting (Delaware County, Pa.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-M505
Scope and Contents

Records of Middletown Monthly Meeting, 1931-1995, include: marriage certificates, 1933-1955; joint meeting minutes, 1931-1997; worship and ministry minutes, 1960-1991; committee records, 1970s-1980s; miscellaneous, 1935-1995.

Dates: 1931-1997
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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