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:
Evesham Preparative Meeting Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-E910
Scope and Contents
Pre-Separation and Hicksite meeting records include: minutes of the men's meeting, 1828-1884; and minutes of the women's meeting, 1801-1884. Also included are two account books of the women's meeting, 1830-1868 and 1868-1884. Orthodox and United meeting records include: burials, 1816-1940; minutes of the men's meeting, 1762-1970; minutes of the women’s meeting, 1828-1908; account books, 1838-1970; school trustees minutes and accounts, 1795-1970; miscellaneous papers, 1943-1960, n.d.; deeds...
Dates:
1762-1970
Exeter Monthly Meeting (1955- ) Records
Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/E950
Identifier: QM-Ph-E950
Scope and Contents
Records of Exeter Monthly Meeting, 1956-2015. Includes: Minutes, 1956-2015.
Dates:
1956-2015
Fallowfield Monthly Meeting Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-F300
Scope and Contents
Records include: pre-Separation and Hicksite mnutes, 1811-1980; pre-Separation, Hicksite, Orthodox, and United vital records,1740-1934, including births and deaths, burial chart, marriage records, membership lists, removals; pre-Separation and Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1811-1893; minutes of Hicksite Ministers and Elders, 1829-1916, and of Worship and Ministry, 1919-1959; Hicksite Ercildoun First Day School minutes; 1893-1935; Hicksite financial records, 1903-1961; miscellaneous...
Dates:
1740-1998
Galloway Preparative Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-G100
Scope and Contents
Records of the Orthodox branch of Galloway Preparative Meeting, 1796-1865, include: men's minutes, 1856-1865; visits of ministering friends, 1796-1863.
Dates:
1726-1865.
Great Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-G650
Scope and Contents
Records of Great Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, 1682-1843, include: vital records, 1682-1837; men's minutes, 1726-1843; women's minutes, 1788-1843; ministers' and elders' minutes, 1817-1830.
Dates:
1726-1843.
Gwynedd Monthly Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-G910
Scope and Contents
Records of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting, 1690-ongoing.Early records include: Hicksite births and deaths, 1690-1921; Orthodox births and deaths, 1720-1889; Hicksite marriages, 1715-1917; Orthodox marriages, 1828-1930; Hicksite removals, 1801-1924; Orthodox removals, 1828-1867; minutes, 1715-1812; Hicksite minutes, 1813-1984; Orthodox minutes, 1827-1936; women's minutes, 1717-1818; Hicksite women’s minutes, 1827-1897; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1818-1897; ministers and elders minutes,...
Dates:
1690 - 2023
Gwynedd Preparative Meeting Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-G970
Scope and Contents
Records of Gwynedd Preparative Meeting, 1784-1974, as follows: Hicksite and United men’s minutes, 1798-1974; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1827-1852; Hicksite women's minutes, 1798-1892; minutes and other papers of Gwynedd First Day School, 1881-1936; account books and other financial records, 1784-1910; property records, 1807-1808; account books of Gwynedd Friends' School trustees, 1822-1892.
Dates:
1784-1974
Germantown Monthly Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-G300
Scope and Contents
Records of Germantown Monthly meeting, 1900-2002, include: vital records, 1900-2002; men’s minutes, 1906-1978; women’s minutes, 1906-1918; ministers’ and elders’ minutes, 1907-1954; financial records, 1907-1968; property records, 1945-1970s; assistance committee contributions, 1957-1962; Germantown Friends School Committee minutes, 1899-1997; library committee account books, 1945-1965; overseers’ minutes, 1907-1976; religious education committee notebooks; sewing group garment work record,...
Dates:
1906-2006
Germantown Preparative Meeting Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-G310
Scope and Contents
Records include: Minutes of the pre-Separation and Orthodox men's meeting and later of joint sessions with women, 1756-1939; Hicksite men's minutes, 1877-1914; pre-Separation and Orthodox women's meeting minutes, 1784-1917; Hicksite women's minutes, 1877-1880; Orthodox account books 1739-1812, 1832-1938; Hicksite account books,1877-1914; Orthodox receipt books, 1859-1895; Orthodox membership, 1799-1843; Hicksite membership, 1807-1812, 1888-1911; Orthodox women's records, 1862-1902; building...
Dates:
1705-1956
Goshen Monthly Meeting Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-G600
Scope and Contents
Records of Goshen Monthly Meeting, 1705-2015, include: acknowledgements, 1762-1774; births and deaths, 1705-1896; disownments and removals, 1721-1930; marriage certificates, 1722-1938; membership registers and lists, 1828-1991; Hicksite men’s minutes, 1722-1962; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1828-1956; Hicksite women’s minutes, 1827-1889; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1722-1911; United minutes, 1985-1999; Hicksite ministers and elders minutes, 1827-1938; Orthodox ministers and elders minutes,...
Dates:
1705-2021
