QM/B/MM. Constituent Monthly, Preparative, and Quarterly meetings

Record Group Term

Identifier: QM/B/MM

Staff Only

_____ 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:

Richmond Monthly Meeting Records (including Cedar Creek)

Collection

Identifier: QM-B-R534

Scope and Contents

Records of Cedar Creek and Richmond Monthly Meetings and their predecessors, 1729-1999. Includes Men's and Joint minutes 1739-1974, Women's minutes 1754-1890, vital records, 1729-1916, Worship and Ministry and its predecessors 1791-1949, and financial records 1875-1917. Also includes Richmond Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1815-1818, Camp Creek Monthly Meeting records, 1747-1753, and Cedar Creek Preparative Meeting Minutes 1790-1792.

Dates: 1729 - 1999

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

Warrington Monthly Meeting (1747-1861) Records

Collection — Othertype SW/B/W371

Identifier: QM-B-W371

Scope and Contents

Records of Warrington Monthly Meeting, 1739-1876. Includes men's minutes 1747-1840, women's minutes 1753-1857, and vital records 1739-1876.

Dates: 1739-1876

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

Warrington Monthly Meeting (1947- ) Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-B-W372

Scope and Contents Records of the second Warrington Monthly Meeting, 1945-. Includes minutes 1947-2017, assorted member-related files 1947-2017, treasurer's reports, and records of the Warrington Friends Cemetery (which continued prior to the second Monthly Meeting being established at Warrington in 1947), and newsletters. Miscellaneous records include a file from the 1980s giving an example of the Meeting Clerk and Overseers eldering a member and his family, apportionment responses to BYM, and state of the...

Dates: 1945 - 2021

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

Warrington Quarterly Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/B/W374

Identifier: QM-B-W374

Scope and Contents

Records of Warrington Quarterly Meeting and its predecessor, Warrington and Fairfax Quarterly Meeting, 1776-2021. Records include Men's and Joint minutes 1776-2021, women's minutes 1776-1897, Ministers and Elders minutes 1806-1925, and Miscellaneous 1988-2021 (includes reports from the Quarter and reports to the Quarter from its constituent meetings).

Dates: 1776 - 2021

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

Washington Preparative Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/B/W376

Identifier: QM-B-W376

Scope and Contents

Records of Washington Preparative Meeting, 1822-48. Includes women's minutes 1822-48.

Dates: 1822-1848

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

Washington Monthly Meeting Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-B-W375

Scope and Contents

Records of Washington Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1807-1956. Includes minutes 1899-1956, Ministry and Counsel, 1899-1941, financial records 1892-1947, property records 1807-1948, and committee records 1893-1941.

Dates: 1807-1956

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

West Baltimore United Preparative Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/B/W471

Identifier: QM-B-W471

Scope and Contents

Records of West Baltimore United Preparative Meeting of Friends, 1944-62. Includes minutes 1944-63.

Dates: 1944-1963

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

West Branch Monthly Meeting (Clearfield County, Pa.) Records

Collection — Othertype SW/B/W473

Identifier: QM-B-W473

Scope and Contents

Records of West Branch Monthly Meeting, 1833-2018. Includes Men's and Joint minutes 1833-1991, women's minutes 1833-84, marriages 1834-83, First-day school minutes 1863-1991, and First day school attendance books 1959-91, plus miscellaneous reports deposited by the YM Office.

Dates: 1833 - 2018

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