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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:

Lansdowne Preparative Meeting Records (including its predecessor Darby Preparative Meeting (Orthodox))

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/L340
Identifier: QM-Ph-L340
Scope and Contents

Records of Lansdowne Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1924-1953), 1827-1907, and its predecessor, Darby Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1924). Includes: Women's minutes, 1827-1847 and 1903-1907; women's account book, 1852-1901; miscellaneous papers relating to history of Darby meeting, 1902-1961.

The records of Darby Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) are described in a separate finding aid.

Dates: 1827-1961
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting (1715-1901) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-L500
Scope and Contents

Records, pre-Separation and Orthodox, include: births and deaths, 1698-1887; marriage records, 1716-1872; membership, 1889-1894; minutes, 1715-1901; women's meeting minutes, 1715-1876; miscellaneous.

Dates: 1696-1901
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Little Egg Harbor Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-L510
Scope and Contents

Records include: Men's minutes, 1805-1880; Women's minutes, 1817-1839.

Dates: 1805-1880
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Lehigh Valley Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-L450
Scope and Contents

Records of Lehigh Valley Monthly Meeting, 1948-ongoing. Includes digital newsletters and media files.

Dates: 1948-2022
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

London Grove Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-L600
Scope and Contents Records of London Grove Monthly Meeting, 1792-2018. Includes: Orthodox births and deaths, 1830-1883; abstracts of Hicksite marriages, 1804-1844; abstracts of Orthodox marriages, 1829-1909; Orthodox membership lists, 1827-1939; Hicksite removals, 1792-1871; Orthodox removals, 1828-1891; Hicksite men’s minutes, 1792-1909; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1827-1944; Hicksite and United joint minutes, 1909-2018 (some gaps); Hicksite women’s minutes, 1792-1893; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1827-1912;...
Dates: 1792-2018
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

London Grove Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-L630
Scope and Contents

Records include: men’s minutes, 1777-1787; Hicksite men’s minutes, 1875 and 1877-1912; Orthodox men’s minutes, 1847-1897; Hicksite women's minutes, 1877-1912; Orthodox women’s meeting, 1862-1907; Orthodox financial records, 1889-1922.

Dates: 1777-1787; 1847-1945
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Lower Mansfield Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/L680
Identifier: QM-Ph-L680
Scope and Contents

Records of Lower Mansfield Preparative Meeting, 1808-1831.

Dates: 1808-1831
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Harrisburg Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/Ph/H365
Identifier: QM-Ph-H365
Scope and Contents

Records include minutes of the Harrisburg Society of Friends and Harrisburg Monthly Meeting, 1928-1934 and since 1941; an account book, 1909-1960; membership lists for 1955 and 1957; and miscellaneous records, including Clerk's files, 1989-1993, records of the Building Renovation Committee, 1993-1997, and Bequest Committee records, 1986-1989.

Dates: 1909-2004
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Haverford Monthly Meeting of Friends Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-H368
Scope and Contents

Records of Haverford Monthly Meeting, 1838-2002, include: records of burials, 1838-1977; marriage and membership records, 1904-2002; men’s and joint meeting minutes, 1904-1996; women's minutes, 1904-1910; Ministers and Elders and Worship and Ministry minutes, 1905-1969; account books, 1905-1958; property records, 1834-1982.

Dates: 1838-1989
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Haverford Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-H370
Scope and Contents Records of Haverford Preparative Meeting, 1741-1950, include: membership lists, 1783-1796, 1809-1827 and 1826 (with Radnor Monthly Meeting Births and Deaths [copy], 1685-1924); Orthodox membership, 1783-1863; membership list, 1931 (with Minutes, 1918-1935); Hicksite men’s meeting minutes, 1839-1948 and 1948-1950 (with Old Haverford Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1950-1955); women's meeting minutes, 1805-1807 (with Radnor Monthly Meeting women's minutes, 1812-1835); Hicksite women’s meeting...
Dates: 1783-1950
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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