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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 103 Collections and/or Records:

Adelphi Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-A350
Abstract

Records of Adelphi Monthly Meeting, 1991-2019. Records deposited by General Secretary of Baltimore Yearly Meeting rather than Adelphi.

Dates: 1991 - 2019
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Annapolis Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-A561
Scope and Contents

Records of Annapolis Monthly Meeting, 1964-2019. Includes minutes, 1964-2011, vital records, 1968-2012, and newsletters, 1992/1996-1999, plus minutes, newsletters, and other records from the 2010s deposited by the Yearly Meeting's General Secretary in 2020.

Dates: 1964 - 2020
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

Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-S361
Scope and Contents

Records of Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting and its predecessors at Clifts, Herring Creek, and Indian Spring, 1658-1992-2020. Includes men's and joint minutes 1677-2019, women's minutes 1776-1891, vital records 1658-2015, Ministers and Elders minutes 1918-62, financial and property records 1739-1950,and miscellaneous 1823-2020. Also includes the minutes of Indian Spring Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1829-1841 and Friends House Worship Group, 2012-2014.

Dates: 1658 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Valley Friends Meeting (Rockingham County, Va.) Records (including Harrisonburg Monthly Meeting)

 Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-V350
Scope and Contents

Harrisonburg Meeting's records consist of clerk's correspondence 1989-1992 received by the Yearly Meeting office. As Valley Friends Meeting, digital records include minutes (2011-2020 with gaps), some newsletters (2009-2019), Spiritual State of the Meeting reports (2010-2019), and some member related records and statistics.

Dates: 1989 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Friendship Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-F760
Abstract

Records related to the establishment and history of Friendship Preparative Meeting, 1990-1992.

Dates: 1990 - 1992
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Friends Meeting of Washington DC Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-F751
Dates: 1927 - 2021
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

Floyd Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/F561
Identifier: QM-B-F561
Scope and Contents

Records of Floyd Monthly Meeting, 1991-2019. Includes minutes 1991-2018, and membership records and reports.

Dates: 1991 - 2019
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 a few paper records from the early 1990s maintained by the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Office, plus 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: 1990 - 2021
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