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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:

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

Philadelphia Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/P470
Identifier: QM-Ph-P470
Scope and Contents

Records include: minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting, 1873-1893 and minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1839-1893.

Dates: 1839-1893
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-P480
Scope and Contents Records of Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting, 1682-1996, include: vital records, 1779-1795; minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting and joint sessions, 1828-1955; men’s minutes and joint, 1682-1996; Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1828-1905; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1692-1922; minutes of the Hicksite quarterly Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1835-1908; minutes of the Hicksite meeting of Ministry and Counsel, 1908-1949; Hicksite Ministry and Elders' reports, 1829-1873; Orthodox minister’s and...
Dates: 1682-1996
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Southern District (1772-1872) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-P466
Scope and Contents

Records of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Southern District include: births, 1733-1872; deaths, 1773-1872; marriages, 1773-1872; membership, 1773-1855; removals, 1773-1872; men’s and joint meeting minutes, 1772-1872; women's minutes, 1772-1872; miscellaneous, 1771-1872.

Dates: 1733-1872.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Philadelphia Preparative Meeting, Southern District (1772-1872?) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/P483
Identifier: QM-Ph-P483
Scope and Contents

Records of Philadelphia Preparative Meeting for the Southern District, 1818-1823; women's minutes, 1818-1823.

Dates: 1818-1823
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Western District (1814-1956) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-P467
Scope and Contents Records of Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Western District include: vital records, 1732-1963; men’s minutes, 1814-1955; women’s minutes, 1813-1918; ministers’ and elders’ minutes, 1814-1955; financial records, 1814-1955; property records, 1803-1931; Dorcas Society records: 1867-1973; Twelfth Street First Day school records, 1861-1914; Western District Colored School records, 1848-1919; Richardson-White Trust, 1882-1986; library committee, 1870-1886; overseers’ minutes and...
Dates: 1732-1973
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Philadelphia Preparative Meeting, Western District (1814-1907) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/P485
Identifier: QM-Ph-P485
Scope and Contents

Records of the Preparative Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Western District (Orthodox) include: women's minutes, 1856-1867.

Dates: 1813-1825
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Pikeland Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/P500
Identifier: QM-Ph-P500
Scope and Contents

Includes: minutes of the men's meeting, 1838-1854; deed, 1834.

Dates: 1834-1854
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-P520
Scope and Contents

Records of the Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting, 1756-1929, include: vital records, 1756-1928; Hicksite men’s minutes, 1794-1929; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1827-1830; Hicksite women's minutes, 1794-1823 and 1827-1893; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1828-1830; Hicksite ministers and elders' minutes, 1800-1805 and 1836-1897.

Dates: 1756-1929
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Pilesgrove Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/P540
Identifier: QM-Ph-P540
Scope and Contents

Records of the Hicksite preparative meeting include: Minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1860-1926; women's minutes, 1851-1886; burials at Woodstown, N.J. (including burials of non-Friends), 1816-1903.

Dates: 1816-1926.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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