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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:

Media Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-M440
Scope and Contents

Records of Media Monthly Meeting and its immediate predecessor, Chester Monthly Meeting (Media, Pa.) from 1948. Includes: vital records to 2009, minutes, 1948-2013/2015-18, financial records, committee records, and miscellaneous. Of particular interest are the records of the Sanctuary Committee, 1986-1990, and blueprints of the Media meetinghouse

The pre 1948 records of Chester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) have been described with the records of Chester Monthly Meeting.

Dates: 1924-2018
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Media Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/M450
Identifier: QM-Ph-M450
Scope and Contents

Records of the Orthodox preparative meeting include: minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1878-1949; women's minutes, 1878-1900; membership list, 1878; financial records, 1878-1908; minutes of the Juvenile Auxiliary Committee, 1912-1913; miscellaneous papers, 1913-1934.

Dates: 1878-1949
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Newark Monthly Meeting (Newark, Del.) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/N430
Identifier: QM-Ph-N430
Scope and Contents Records include: Minutes and Queries, 1962-2021, vital records including correspondence concerning marriage and memorial minutes, and Worship & Ministry. Also included are committee records (including those of the committee with care for London Britain Meetinghouse), financial records, and miscellaneous records like clerk's files and newsletters. Records are primarily paper pre-2010 and primarily digital post-2010. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or...
Dates: 1962 - 2022
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

New Garden Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-N400
Scope and Contents

Records of New Garden Monthly Meeting, 1682-1978, include: minutes, 1718-1975; vital records, 1682-1976; women's minutes, 1718-1891; minutes of the committee of ministry and counsel and of its predecessor, the meeting of ministers and elders, 1812-1933; financial and property records; miscellaneous papers. Records (Hicksite) include: Vital records, 1692-1952; financial and property papers, 1912-1957; overseers' minutes, 1903-1949; miscellaneous papers, 1883-1978, etc.

Dates: 1682-1975
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Norristown Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-N620
Scope and Contents

Records include minutes, including the minutes of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting (Hicksite)'s Joint Committee with charge of Norristown Indulged Meeting (1852-186) and the men's, women's, and joint minutes of Norristown Preparative Meeting (1861-1935). In addition to minute books, collection includes property records (including related to the construction of the Norristown Meeting House), account books, and First Day School records.

Dates: 1743-1935 (bulk 1852-1935)
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

North Branch Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/N640
Identifier: QM-Ph-N640
Scope and Contents

Records include: minutes, 1972-1979.

Dates: 1972-2004
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Old Haverford Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/O400
Identifier: QM-Ph-O400
Scope and Contents

Records include: Hicksite minutes since 1951; Hicksite vital records, including marriage papers, 1951-1982; membership records, 1950-1974 and 1950-1981; removals issued and received, and other papers concerning membership,1927-1984; newsletter.

Dates: 1927-1995
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Old Springfield Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-O440
Scope and Contents

Records of Old Springfield Preparative Meeting, 1805-1952, include: vital records, 1805-1918; men’s minutes, 1773-1914; women's minutes, 1810-1830, 1851-1881; school committee minutes, 1839-1856; account books, 1849-1873, 1903-1952; property records, 1864; miscellaneous papers, 1773-1874.

Dates: 1805-1952
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

New Garden Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-N420
Scope and Contents

Records of New Garden Preparative Meeting, Orthodox and Hicksite, include: men's and joint session minutes, 1827-1928; women's minutes, 1847-1914.

Dates: 1827-1928.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Newtown Monthly Meeting (Bucks County, Pa.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-N450
Scope and Contents Records are both paper and digital and generally the runs are not complete. Records include: Hicksite and United minutes since 1926 through 2020; Hicksite and United vital and member-related records (including recorder reports, statistics, and certificates) 1924-2020; minutes and other papers of the Meeting on Worship and Ministry, 1926-2020; newsletter, 1947-2022; committee records, plus some minimal financial and property records.Minutes 1993-2012 and records 2019-2020 are...
Dates: 1924 - 2022
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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