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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:

Goose Creek Monthly Meeting (Bedford County, Va.) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/G665
Identifier: QM-B-G665
Scope and Contents

Records of Goose Creek Monthly Meeting, 1789-1820. Includes men's minutes 1794-1814, women's minutes 1794-1814, vital records 1789-1820, and miscellaneous.

Dates: 1789-1820
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Gunpowder Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/G861
Identifier: QM-B-G861
Scope and Contents

Records of Gunpowder Monthly Meeting, 1687-2020. Includes men's and joint minutes 1739-2003 and 2016-2020, women's minutes 1742-1873, plus vital records 1687-1958, financial and property records, and other records (including born-digital).

Dates: 1687 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Gunpowder Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-G862
Scope and Contents

Records of Gunpowder Preparative Meeting, 1719-1852. Includes Minutes, 1829-1852 and Deaths of North Carolina Friends, 1719-1791.

Dates: 1719-1852
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Henrico Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-H467
Scope and Contents

Records of Henrico Monthly Meeting, 1699-1837. Includes men's minutes 1699-1836, women's minutes 1762-1834, and vital records 1699-1837.

Dates: 1699-1837
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Hopewell Centre Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-B-H671
Abstract

Records of Hopewell Centre and Hopewell Monthly Meetings, 1754-ongoing.

Dates: 1754 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Hopewell Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/H672
Identifier: QM-B-H672
Scope and Contents

Records of Hopewell Preparative Meeting, 1791-1849, 1886-1907. Includes men's minutes 1791-1849.

Dates: 1791-1907
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Huntington Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/H862
Identifier: QM-B-H862
Scope and Contents

Records of Huntington Preparative Meeting, 1833-90. Includes men's minutes 1849-64, women's minutes 1833-74, and miscellaneous 1868-90.

Dates: 1833-1890.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Langley Hill Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-L361
Scope and Contents

Records of Langley Hill Monthly Meeting, which include paper and electronic records (which include those digitized by LHFM from paper and those that were born digital). LHFM has historically combined all of its records into a single annual file, arranged chronologically, which includes all of the meeting for business records along with related correspondence and newsletters. Some records donated by Yearly Meeting Office.

Dates: 1918-2020 (bulk 1961-2020)
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Lincoln Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-L563
Scope and Contents

Records of Lincoln Monthly Meeting, 1834-1950; minutes of Men's Meeting and Joint, 1887-1950; vital records, 1887-1950; minutes of Meeting for Ministry and Oversight, 1886-1922; miscellaneous papers, 1886-1938.

Dates: 1834-1950
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Little Britain Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/L581
Identifier: QM-B-L581
Scope and Contents

Records of Little Britain Monthly Meeting, 1775-2020. Includes men's and joint minutes 1804-2020 (including some from Penn Hill Preparative), women's minutes 1804-1874, vital records 1775-2013, Ministers and Elders minutes 1853-1950, and miscellaneous 1803-2019.

Includes 20th and 21st century records from Little Britain's two constituent preparative meetings (as it is arranged on the traditional English model) of Eastland and Penn Hill.

Dates: 1775 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections