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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:

Haddonfield Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-H300
Scope and Contents

Records of Haddonfield Monthly Meeting and of its predecessors, the Hicksite, Orthodox, and pre-Separation meetings. Included are minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1828-1952 (Hicksite); women's minutes, 1828-1903 (Hicksite); vital records, 1755-1944 (Hicksite); ministers and elders' minutes, 1828-1913 (Hicksite); minutes of the Committee of Ministry and Counsel, 1913-1938 (Hicksite); miscellaneous papers, 1828-1930 (Hicksite).

Dates: 1658-2002
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Haddonfield Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-H330
Scope and Contents

Records of Haddonfield Preparative Meeting, 1820-1953, include: men’s meeting minutes, 1820-1826; Hicksite men's meeting and joint session minutes, 1848-1953; Orthodox men’s meeting minutes, 1826-1920; Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1838-1856, 1864-1903; Orthodox women’s meeting minutes, 1884-1917; women’s account books, 1906-1919; Orthodox financial records, 1820-1902.

Dates: 1838-1941
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Horsham Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/H650
Identifier: QM-Ph-H650
Scope and Contents

Records of Horsham Monthly Meeting, 1713-1996, include: records of births and deaths, 1713-1901; marriage and membership records, 1713-1992; removals issued and received, 1783-1940; men’s and joint meeting minutes, 1782-1996; Orthodox men’s meeting minutes, 1827-1828; Hicksite women's minutes, 1782-1793, 1819-1885; Ministers and Elders minutes, 1786-1964; account books, 1782-1956; Hicksite and United Overseers' minutes, 1846-1976; School Committee minutes and account books, 1783-1895.

Dates: 1713-1996
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Horsham Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-H670
Scope and Contents

Records of the Horsham Preparative Meeting, 1758-1959, include: Hicksite men's meeting and joint session minutes, 1758-1959; Orthodox men’s meeting minutes, 1828-1907; Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1785-1893; Orthodox women’s meeting minutes, 1879-1886; account books and other financial records, 1811-1938; and property records, 1760-1938.

Dates: 1758-1959
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Huntingdon Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/H810
Identifier: QM-Ph-H810
Scope and Contents

Records include: minutes and associated documents, 1996-2000.

Dates: 1996-2000
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Kendal Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/K400
Identifier: QM-Ph-K400
Scope and Contents

Records include: membership records, 1975-1998; minutes, 1975-2006; miscellaneous records, 1974-1985, and copies of the Kendal Reporter.

Dates: 1974-2006
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Kennett, Old Kennett, and Kennett Square Preparative Meetings Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-K470
Scope and Contents Records of Kennett Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) include: Minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1828-1931; women's meeting minutes, 1859-1909. Records of Old Kennett Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and the pre-Separation meeting include: minutes of the men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1879-1949; burial records, 1750-1902 and 1874-1885; membership lists, 1915-1922 and 1926 or 1927; First Day School minutes, 1876-1941; trustees' meeting...
Dates: 1750-1977
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Kingwood and Quakertown Preparative Meetings Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/K500
Identifier: QM-Ph-K500
Scope and Contents

Records of Kingwood Preparative Meeting, pre-Separation, including: Minutes, 1801-1823, 1801-1823 (copy).

Dates: 1801-1823
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Lancaster Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/L300
Identifier: QM-Ph-L300
Scope and Contents

Records of Lancaster Monthly Meeting since 1946. Included are: minutes, 1947-2001, and visitor's register, 1946-1976 with minutes of the meeting for worship, 1946-1947.

Dates: 1946-2009
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting Records (including Haddonfield and Salem Quarterly Meeting)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-H350
Scope and Contents Records of Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting, 1795-2020, include: men's meeting minutes, 1795-1827; Hicksite men's meeting and joint session minutes, 1827-1954; Orthodox and United men’s meeting and joint session minutes, 1827-1990 and 2019-2020; women's minutes, 1795-1814, with Salem Quarterly women's minutes; minute book of the Orthodox women's meeting, 1815-1919; minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1827-1903; ministers and elders minutes, 1795-1819; Orthodox ministers and elders minutes,...
Dates: 1795-2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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