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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:

Atlantic City Area Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-A800
Scope and Contents

Records include: Clerk's correspondence, 1981-1985; Deeds, 1866-1884.

Dates: 1866-1884, 1981-1985, 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Bart Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/B200
Identifier: QM-Ph-B200
Scope and Contents

Records include burials (Bart, Pa.), 1831-1935; chart of marked graves at Bart, 1938; Hicksite minutes of the joint sessions, 1887-1925.

Dates: 1831-1938
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Burlington Preparative Meeting of Friends Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-B870
Dates: 1749-1931
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Burlington Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-B880
Scope and Contents Records of the Hicksite Burlington Quarterly Meeting include: minutes of the men's and joint meetings, 1827-1917; minutes of the women's meeting, 1827-1889; minutes of the Ministers and Elders meeting, 1841-1941; financial records; and miscellaneous papers, including membership lists, queries received, and other records. Records of the Orthodox Burlington Quarterly Meeting include: minutes of the men’s and joint meetings, 1686-1983; women’s meeting minutes, 1686-1921; minutes of the...
Dates: 1827-1986
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Byberry Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-B900
Scope and Contents

Records include: pre-Separation and Hicksite minutes of the Women's Meeting; minutes of the pre-Separation and Hicksite Ministry & Council committee and its predecessor, the Preparative Meeting of Ministers & Elders; pre-Separation and Hicksite vital records since 1726, including births, deaths, burials, marriage and membership records, certificates of removal, etc. as well as other types of records.

Dates: 1726 - 2017
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Caln Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-C310
Scope and Contents

Records of Caln Preparative Meeting, 1841-1940, include: Hicksite men’s minutes, 1850-1887; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1841-1922; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1882-1918; account books, 1842-1940.

Dates: 1841-1940
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Caln Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-C300
Scope and Contents Records of Caln Quarterly Meeting since 1800. Included are: pre-Separation men's meeting minutes, 1800-1827; Orthodox men's meeting minutes,1828-1843; Hicksite men's and joint meeting minutes, 1828-1952; United meeting minutes since 1952; Continuing Committee minutes since 1974; pre-Separation women's meeting minutes, 1800-1820; Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1828-1894; rough or clerk's copy of women's meeting minutes (Orthodox), 1803-1833, including minutes of pre-Separation meeting,...
Dates: 1800-2012
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (1956- ) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/C405
Identifier: QM-Ph-C405
Scope and Contents

Records of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends, 1926-91. Includes minutes, 1956-89, and records of the Race Street Forum Committee.

Dates: 1926-2004.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Chambersburg Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/C468
Identifier: QM-Ph-C468
Scope and Contents

Records of Chambersburg Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1978-2009. Also includes the minutes of Franklin County Preparative Meeting, 1968-1978.

Dates: 1968-2009
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Cheltenham Monthly Meeting and Abington Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-C469
Scope and Contents

Records of the Cheltenham Monthly Meeting and its Orthodox predecessor, Abington Monthly Meeting, 1713-1980, as follows: Orthodox vital records, 1827-2007; Orthodox/United Men’s and Joint minutes, 1827-2007; Women's minutes, 1827-1903; records of Worship & Ministry and its predecessors, 1713-1988; Financial records, 1922-2008; Property records, 1907-2007; Miscellaneous, 1913-2008; newsletter.

Dates: 1713-2008
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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