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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:

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

Plainfield Preparative Meeting (Pre-Separation and Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/Ph/P545
Identifier: QM-Ph-P545
Scope and Contents

Records of Plainfield Preparative Meeting, 1793-1918, include: men's minutes, 1879-1904; women's minutes, 1834-1861; school fund treasurer's accounts, 1793-1892; school fund trustees minutes, 1824-1918.

Dates: 1793-1918
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Pennsgrove Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/P450
Identifier: QM-Ph-P450
Scope and Contents

Records of the Hicksite Preparative Meeting as follows: minutes,1829-1944 and 1944-1951; First Day school minutes, 1896-1898 and 1900-1909.

Dates: 1829-1951
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Plumstead Friends Meeting (2002- ) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/P560
Identifier: QM-Ph-P560
Scope and Contents

Records include: minutes, 2002-2017; miscellaneous records, 2002; Worship Group records, 1990-2001. Plumstead Monthly Meeting Records also include records kept by the group prior to its establishment as a monthly meeting. Plumstead Worship Group began meeting regularly for worship in 1989 and began holding regular business meetings in 1996 under care of Buckingham Monthly Meeting.

Dates: 1990 - 2017
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Plumstead Preparative Meeting (1731-1893) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/P550
Identifier: QM-Ph-P550
Scope and Contents

Records include: Orthodox men's minutes, 1835-1878.

Dates: 1835-1878
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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