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:
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
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
