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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:

Newberry Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/N494
Identifier: QM-B-N494
Scope and Contents

Records of Newberry Preparative Meeting, 1811, 1935, and n.d. Includes financial and property records 1811, and miscellaneous 1935 and n.d.

Dates: 1811-1935
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Nottingham Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-N681
Scope and Contents

Records of Nottingham Monthly Meeting, 1680-2021. Includes men's and joint minutes, women's minutes 1730-1892, vital records, Ministers and Elders minutes, financial and property records 1763-1925, among other records and reports.

Dates: 1680 - 2021
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Nottingham Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/N685
Identifier: QM-B-N685
Scope and Contents

Records of Nottingham Quarterly Meeting, 1819-2018. Includes men's and joint minutes 1819-1990 and 2011-2018, women's minutes 1819-93, Ministers and Elders minutes 1819-1973, financial and property records 1886-1918, and reports to Yearly Meeting 1835-82.

Dates: 1819 - 2018
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Oxford Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/O944
Identifier: QM-B-O944
Scope and Contents

Records of Oxford Preparative Meeting, 1878-1927. Includes minutes 1883-1927, First-day school minutes 1878-1904.

Dates: 1878-1927
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Patuxent Monthly Meeting (1871-1942) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-P388
Scope and Contents

Records of Patuxent Monthly Meeting, 1871-1942, including Membership Records, 1809-1939; Marriage Records, 1874-1926; minutes of Men's Meeting and Joint, 1871-1942; Minutes of Women's Meeting, 1871-1889.

Dates: 1809-1942
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/P571
Identifier: QM-B-P571
Scope and Contents

Records of Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting, 1691-2023. Includes men's and joint minutes 1772-2023 [gaps], women's minutes 1772-1885, vital records and membership 1691-2013, Ministers and Elders minutes 1881-1913 and 1963-96, financial and property records 1771-2006, and miscellaneous 1885-2006. Also includes Pipe Creek Preparative Meeting minutes, 1891-1904, in volume 1891-1921.

Dates: 1691 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Potomac Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/P684
Identifier: QM-B-P684
Scope and Contents

Records of Potomac Quarterly Meeting, 1947-2000. Includes minutes 1951-2000, Ministry and Counsel minutes 1951-1968, and miscellaneous 1947-1991.

Dates: 1947-2000
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting (and its predecessors) Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-B-B358
Scope and Contents Records of Baltimore Quarterly Meeting, pre-Separation, Hicksite, and Orthodox, 1675-1969. Pre-Separation and Hicksite records include: men's and joint minutes, 1675-1949; women's minutes, 1775-1893; Ministers and Elders minutes, 1759-1951; and miscellaneous records, 1812-1963. Orthodox records include: men's and joint minutes, 1710-1775, 1807-1823, 1856-1941, 1956-1969; women's minutes, 1703-1766, 1774, 1855-1900; Mininstry and Oversight and its predecessors, 1852-1941; Baltimore Junior...
Dates: 1675-1969
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Baltimore Monthly Meeting (Homewood) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-B349
Scope and Contents

Records of Baltimore Monthly Meeting, Homewood, 1673-1991. Includes vital records 1674-1968, Men's minutes 1673-1975, Women's minutes 1819-1961, Worship & Ministry and its predecessors 1793-1969, financial records 1842-1979, property records 1713-1968, committee records 1831-1991, and miscellaneous 1698-1991.

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

Quaker Lake Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/Q800
Identifier: QM-B-Q800
Scope and Contents

Minutes of Quaker Lake Friends Meeting, 1991-2006.

Dates: 1991-2006
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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