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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:

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

Newtown Preparative Meeting (Bucks County, Pa.) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/N470
Identifier: QM-Ph-N470
Scope and Contents

Records of the pre-Separation and Hicksite preparative meeting include: Minutes, 1817-1940; women's minutes, 1817-1892; births and deaths, 1753-1891; trustees' minutes, 1893-1938; trustees' papers, 1915-1934; First Day School minutes, 1888-1901; First Day School Committee annual meeting minutes, 1893-1921

Dates: 1753-1827
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Newtown Preparative Meeting (Delaware County, Pa.) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/N460
Identifier: QM-Ph-N460
Scope and Contents

Records of the Hicksite meeting include: minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1840-1935; women's minutes, 1847-1897; treasurer's account book, 1912-1939; burial vault account book, 1849-1879; deeds and declarations of trust, 1708-1832; miscellaneous financial accounts, 1790-1791 and n.d.

Dates: 1708-1935.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Newton Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/N445
Identifier: QM-Ph-N445
Scope and Contents

Records of the Newton Monthly Meeting, ca.1921-1953 and 1990-1995.

Dates: 1990-1995.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Newton Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-N440
Scope and Contents Records of the Newton Preparative Meeting, 1808-1947, include: vital records, 1815-1872; Hicksite men's minutes, 1828-1838, 1847-1886; minutes of men's meeting and joint sessions, 1886-1913, 1944-1947; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1808-1919; Hicksite women's minutes, 1845-1903; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1824-1850, 1859-1897; Orthodox financial records, 1810-1912; records of the Hicksite School Committee, 1901-1935, and of the Camden Friends Guild, 1911-1922; miscellaneous papers concerning...
Dates: 1828-1947
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Newtown Square Monthly Meeting (Delaware County, Pa.) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/N490
Identifier: QM-Ph-N490
Scope and Contents

Records include: minutes since 1964; Hicksite trustees' minutes, 1940-1966; papers concerning the oversight of the monthly meeting by Haverford Quarterly Meeting, 1983-1985; list of members, 1990; membership, about 1979-87, register, about 1826-2003. Also includes a digitized photocopy of an undated (20th century) plot chart of the burial ground. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.

Dates: 1940-2003
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Norristown Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-N600
Scope and Contents Collection includes: minutes of the Business Meeting, 1936-2021 (including 1936 records of Norristown Preparative Meeting). Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Corporation and Board of Trustees minutes, 1962-2005, along with other legal and financial papers (including incorporation files related to Norristown Monthly and Preparative Meetings). Other records include an index of marriages, financial and property records (including relating to Providence Meeting House and Norristown...
Dates: 1830 - 2022
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Pennsbury Preparative Meeting of Friends Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/P420
Identifier: QM-Ph-P420
Scope and Contents

Records of the Hicksite preparative meeting, 1827-1864, as follows: men's minutes, 1827-1861 and 1861-1864; women's minutes, 1836-1864; women's account book, 1837-1862.

Dates: 1827-1864
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Pennsgrove Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/P440
Identifier: QM-Ph-P440
Scope and Contents

Records of the Pennsgrove Monthly Meeting, 1833-1968, include: vital records (including births, deaths, removals, marriages, membership, etc.), 1841-1968; Hicksite men’s minutes 1842-1952; Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1842-1884; Hicksite minister’s and elder’s minutes, 1896-1917; miscellaneous property records, 1833-1898; miscellaneous papers, 1951-ca.1952.

Dates: 1841-1952
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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