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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:

York Monthly Meeting (1952- ) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/Y672
Identifier: QM-B-Y672
Scope and Contents

Records of the second York Monthly Meeting of Friends and its independent predecessor, 1914-2022. Includes minutes 1932-2022, membership, 1914, and miscellaneous, 1923-1992.

Dates: 1914 - 2022
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Roanoke Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-R636
Scope and Contents

Records of Roanoke Monthly Meeting, 1989-1999. Includes men's minutes 1989-1995, and miscellaneous 1991-1999.

Dates: 1967-1999
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

South Fork Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/S681
Identifier: QM-B-S681
Scope and Contents

Records of South Fork Preparative Meeting, 1807-26. Includes minutes, 1807-26.

Dates: 1807-1826
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

South River Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-S689
Scope and Contents

Records of South River Monthly Meeting, 1757-1848. Includes men's minutes 1757-1839, women's minutes 1763-1842, and vital records 1757-1848.

Dates: 1757-1848
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Upper Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-U674
Scope and Contents

Records of Upper Quarterly Meeting, 1786-1816, 1837-1843. Includes women's minutes 1786-1816, 1837-1843.

Dates: 1745-1844
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Gettysburg Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/G4
Identifier: QM-B-G4
Scope and Contents

The Gettysburg Monthly Meeting collection consists of digital minutes of the monthly meeting for business, compiled by the clerk into one combined file for each year, 2015-2021, plus some digital minutes deposited by BYM for 2011-2012 along with some reports sent to the Yearly meeting. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.

Dates: 2011 - 2021
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Midlothian Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/M53
Identifier: QM-B-M53
Content Description

Electronic meeting records of Midlothian Friends Meeting, 2010-2020. Records include minutes of meeting for business and state of the meeting report, plus some newsletter and member information.

Special minutes, including those related to BYM finances, climate change, and religious freedom, are also included but are not all dated.

Dates: 2010 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Buckhannon Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-B800
Abstract

Digital records for Buckhannon Monthly Meeting, 2011-2020.

Dates: 2011 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Fauquier Friends Worship Group Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-F380
Scope and Contents

Digital records for Fauquier Friends Worship Group include Spiritual State of the Meeting reports to Baltimore Yearly Meeting (2015-2019), and occasional minutes (2016-2020).

Dates: 2015 - 2019
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Abingdon Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-A200
Abstract

Digital records for Abingdon Friends Meeting, 2010-2017.

Dates: 2010 - 2017
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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