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QM/B/MM. Constituent Monthly, Preparative, and Quarterly meetings

 Record Group Term
Identifier: QM/B/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 102 Collections and/or Records:

Patuxent Friends Meeting (1995- ) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-P389
Abstract

Digital records for Patuxent Friends Meeting, 2010-2018.

Dates: 2010 - 2018
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Williamsburg Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-W500
Abstract

Digital records of Williamsburg Friends Meeting, 2010-2020, and the former Norfolk Preparative Meeting, 2011-2019.

Dates: 2010 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

State College Friends Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-S720
Scope and Contents

Records include: Minutes (with gaps) of the Independent and United Monthly Meeting for Business since 1925 through 2023; Membership records, 1932-1994; Visitors' Register, 1927-1966; Newsletters, 1953-2019, and Spiritual State of the Meeting reports and BYM apportionment responses.

Dates: 1925 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Frederick Friends Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-F691
Scope and Contents Frederick Friends Meeting records (1981-2023) includes records from its initial period as a worship group as well as its time as a Preparative under care of Bethesda. Minutes are both paper (1981-2019) and digital (2020-2023). Other records including membership forms and correspondence; memorial minutes for deceased members (including digital files 2020-2023); Frederick's Incorporation and By-Laws; and the meeting' newsletter (with gaps) which for many years also included the prior month's...
Dates: 1981 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Alexandria Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-A441
Scope and Contents Records of Alexandria Monthly Meeting, 1802-ongoing. Includes men's and joint minutes 1802-1933, 1946-59, 1964-2011 (with a few gaps), women's minutes 1853-77, vital records 1823-1940, Ministers and Elders minutes 1829-1944, financial and property records 1802-1906 and 1933-34, committee records 1927-31. Alexandria Friends Meeting sends its newsletter on a monthly basis, through 2023 is boxed with the collection. Some records sent to the Yearly Meeting were deposited by the General Secretary...
Dates: 1802 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Alexandria Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-A442
Scope and Contents

Records of Alexandria Preparative Meeting, 1800-62. Includes men's and joint minutes 1833-62 and financial and property records 1800-49.

Dates: 1800-1862
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Stony Run Friends (and predecessors) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/B353
Identifier: QM-B-B353
Scope and Contents Records of Stony Run Friends, Baltimore Monthly Meeting, Stony Run (Hicksite), and its immediate predecessor, Baltimore Monthly Meeting for the Western District, c.1658-2020. Includes men's and joint minutes 1807-1994 and digital minutes 2017-2010(Jan), women's minutes 1807-1897, vital records c1658-2013, Ministers and Elders minutes 1834-1992, financial records 1829-2010, Misc 1808-2020, including library Comm 1820-1992, newsletters 1920-1998, trustees 1830-1995, benevolent society...
Dates: 1658 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Annapolis Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-A561
Scope and Contents

Records of Annapolis Monthly Meeting, 1964-2019. Includes minutes, 1964-2011, vital records, 1968-2012, and newsletters, 1992/1996-1999, plus minutes, newsletters, and other records from the 2010s deposited by the Yearly Meeting's General Secretary in 2020.

Dates: 1964 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Baltimore Monthly Meeting for the Eastern District Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-B351
Scope and Contents

Records of Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends for the Eastern District, and its predecessor Baltimore Monthly Meeting (1792-1807), 1729-1819. Includes men's and joint minutes 1792-1819, women's minutes 1792-1819, vital records 1729-1819, financial and property records 1806-1819, and miscellaneous 1783-1819.

Dates: 1729-1819
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Virginia Half-Years Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-V574
Scope and Contents Records of Virginia Half-Years and Quarterly Meetings, 1673-1996. Includes men's and joint minutes, 1876-1996; women's minutes, 1844-1902; Worship & Ministry and its predecessors, 1809-1810, 1812, 1854-1860, 1864-1916, 1938-1962; vital records, 1928-1970; financial records, 1950-1996; committee records, 1854-1856, 1950-1961, 1982-1996; and miscellaneous, 1785, 1814, 1945, 1956-1965. Most records pre-1843 (from the time when the meeting was a separate Yearly Meeting) are described in...
Dates: 1809-1996
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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