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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:

Lehigh Valley Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-L450
Scope and Contents

Records of Lehigh Valley Monthly Meeting, 1948-ongoing. Includes digital newsletters and media files.

Dates: 1948-2022
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

London Grove Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-L600
Scope and Contents Records of London Grove Monthly Meeting, 1792-2018. Includes: Orthodox births and deaths, 1830-1883; abstracts of Hicksite marriages, 1804-1844; abstracts of Orthodox marriages, 1829-1909; Orthodox membership lists, 1827-1939; Hicksite removals, 1792-1871; Orthodox removals, 1828-1891; Hicksite men’s minutes, 1792-1909; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1827-1944; Hicksite and United joint minutes, 1909-2018 (some gaps); Hicksite women’s minutes, 1792-1893; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1827-1912;...
Dates: 1792-2018
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

London Grove Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-L630
Scope and Contents

Records include: men’s minutes, 1777-1787; Hicksite men’s minutes, 1875 and 1877-1912; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1847-1897; Hicksite women's minutes, 1877-1912; Orthodox women’s meeting, 1862-1907; Orthodox financial records, 1889-1922.

Dates: 1777-1787; 1847-1945
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Lower Mansfield Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/L680
Identifier: QM-Ph-L680
Scope and Contents

Records of Lower Mansfield Preparative Meeting, 1808-1831.

Dates: 1808-1831
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Haverford Monthly Meeting of Friends Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-H368
Scope and Contents

Records of Haverford Monthly Meeting, 1838-2002, include: records of burials, 1838-1977; marriage and membership records, 1904-2002; men’s and joint meeting minutes, 1904-1996; women's minutes, 1904-1910; Ministers and Elders and Worship and Ministry minutes, 1905-1969; account books, 1905-1958; property records, 1834-1982.

Dates: 1838-1989
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Haverford Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-H370
Scope and Contents Records of Haverford Preparative Meeting, 1741-1950, include: membership lists, 1783-1796, 1809-1827 and 1826 (with Radnor Monthly Meeting Births and Deaths [copy], 1685-1924); Orthodox membership, 1783-1863; membership list, 1931 (with Minutes, 1918-1935); Hicksite men’s meeting minutes, 1839-1948 and 1948-1950 (with Old Haverford Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1950-1955); women's meeting minutes, 1805-1807 (with Radnor Monthly Meeting women's minutes, 1812-1835); Hicksite women’s meeting...
Dates: 1783-1950
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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 Monthly Meeting Records (including Center)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-H600
Scope and Contents Records include: minutes of the pre-Separation meeting, 1808-1827; minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting, 1827-1893; minutes of the Hicksite joint (men's and women's) meeting, 1893-1955; minutes of the united meeting since 1955 (with gaps); vital records since 1740; minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1827-1893; minutes of the pre-Separation woman's meeting, 1808-1827; minutes of the Orthodox women's meeting, 1827-1831; account books and other financial records; property records...
Dates: 1740 - 2018
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
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