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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 103 Collections and/or Records:

Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-S361
Scope and Contents

Records of Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting and its predecessors at Clifts, Herring Creek, and Indian Spring, 1658-1992-2020. Includes men's and joint minutes 1677-2019, women's minutes 1776-1891, vital records 1658-2015, Ministers and Elders minutes 1918-62, financial and property records 1739-1950,and miscellaneous 1823-2020. Also includes the minutes of Indian Spring Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1829-1841 and Friends House Worship Group, 2012-2014.

Dates: 1658 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Valley Friends Meeting (Rockingham County, Va.) Records (including Harrisonburg Monthly Meeting)

 Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-V350
Scope and Contents

Harrisonburg Meeting's records consist of clerk's correspondence 1989-1992 received by the Yearly Meeting office. As Valley Friends Meeting, digital records include minutes (2011-2020 with gaps), some newsletters (2009-2019), Spiritual State of the Meeting reports (2010-2019), and some member related records and statistics.

Dates: 1989 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Friendship Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-F760
Abstract

Records related to the establishment and history of Friendship Preparative Meeting, 1990-1992.

Dates: 1990 - 1992
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Friends Meeting of Washington DC Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-F751
Dates: 1927 - 2021
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Baltimore Preparative Meeting of Friends for the Eastern District (Pre-Separation and Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/B355
Identifier: QM-B-B355
Scope and Contents

Records of Baltimore Preparative Meeting of Friends for the Eastern District and its predecessors, Baltimore Preparative Meeting (1781-1807) and Patapsco Preparative Meeting, 1776-1916. Includes men's and joint minutes 1776-1916, women's minutes 1843-66, vital records 1819, financial and property records 1800-88, and miscellaneous 1807, 1893-1910.

Dates: 1776-1916
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Floyd Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/F561
Identifier: QM-B-F561
Scope and Contents

Records of Floyd Monthly Meeting, 1991-2019. Includes minutes 1991-2018, and membership records and reports.

Dates: 1991 - 2019
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Charlottesville Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-C431
Abstract

Records of Charlottesville Monthly Meeting, 1966-2019, with gaps. Primarily minutes and newsletters, including digital. Also includes a folder of records created by the independent Young Friends of the University of Virginia (circa 1939-1943), whose convenor later began Charlottesville Worship Group in 1952.

Dates: 1939 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Gettysburg Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/G4
Identifier: QM-B-G4
Scope and Contents

The Gettysburg Monthly Meeting collection consists of a few paper records from the early 1990s maintained by the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Office, plus digital minutes of the monthly meeting for business, compiled by the clerk into one combined file for each year, 2015-2021, plus some digital minutes deposited by BYM for 2011-2012 along with some reports sent to the Yearly meeting. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.

Dates: 1990 - 2021
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

Sandy Spring Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/S362
Identifier: QM-B-S362
Scope and Contents

Records of Sandy Spring Preparative Meeting, 1828-1918. Includes men's minutes 1828-1881 and ministers and elders minutes 1905-1918. The final volume of minutes also includes minutes of the Sandy Spring Executive Committee for the Temperance Society (1883-1885).

Dates: 1828-1845
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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