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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:

Little Britain Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/L582
Identifier: QM-B-L582
Scope and Contents

Records of Little Britain Preparative Meeting, 1841-1964. Includes men's and joint minutes 1909-64, women's minutes 1841-73, and financial and property records 1910-34.

Dates: 1841-1964.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Little Elk Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/L583
Identifier: QM-B-L583
Scope and Contents

Records of Little Elk Meeting, 1826-27. Includes financial and property records 1826-27.

Dates: 1826-1827.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Little Falls Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/L584
Identifier: QM-B-L584
Scope and Contents

Includes men's and joint minutes 1815-2019, women's minutes 1815-1899, vital records 1738-1881 and 2012, and Ministers and Elders minutes 1815-1964. Also includes some 21st-century miscellaneous reports deposited by the YM Office.

Dates: 1738 - 2019
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Little Falls Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/L585
Identifier: QM-B-L585
Scope and Contents

Records of Little Falls Preparative Meeting, 1825-1937. Includes men's and joint minutes 1846-1927, women's minutes 1825-93.

Dates: 1825-1937
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Black Creek Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-B533
Scope and Contents

Records of Black Creek Monthly Meeting, 1907-1966. Includes men's and joint minutes 1907-1966 and Worship & Ministry and its predecessors minutes 1907-1966.

Dates: 1907-1966
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Somerton Monthly Meeting Records (including Chuckatuck/Nansemond, Western Branch, and Lower)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-S664
Scope and Contents

Records of Somerton Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Chuckatuck/Nansemond, Lower and Western Branch, 1673-1946. Includes men's and joint minutes 1673-1756, 1894, 1907-1946, women's minutes 1891-1894, and vital records 1673-1756, 1879-1949.

Includes minutes from Pagan Creek Monthly Meeting 1738-1763, and Lower Preparative Meeting 1894.

Dates: 1673-1946
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Maury River Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/M420
Identifier: QM-B-M420
Scope and Contents

Records of Maury River Friends Meeting, 1965-2022. Includes minutes, newsletters, and miscellaneous records, including some member information from the 2010s. Also includes the minutes of Lexington Preparative Meeting, 1986-1990.

Minutes 2012-2022 are digital only. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.

Dates: 1965 - 2022
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Menallen Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/M461
Identifier: QM-B-M461
Abstract

Records of Menallen Monthly Meeting, 1755-2019, including men's/women's/joint minutes, vital records, and property and burial records, among others.

Dates: 1733 - 2017
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

Monongalia Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-M700
Scope and Contents

Records of Monongalia Monthly Meeting in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Dates: 1978 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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