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:
Stony Run Friends (and predecessors) Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-B-B353
Abstract
The records of Stony Run Friends, and some of its predecessors: Baltimore Monthly Meeting, Stony Run (Hicksite), Baltimore Monthly Meeting for the Western District, with coverage from the 1650s through 2020s (bulk 1807- ). Includes business minutes and vital records, plus substantial coverage of the committee business of the meetings, financial records (from 19th century on), and other related files.
Dates:
1658 - 2020
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 - 2024
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
