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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:

Centre Monthly Meeting (Centre County, Pa.) Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-B-C374
Scope and Contents

Records of Centre Monthly Meeting, pre-Separation, Hicksite, and Orthodox, 1754-1936. Pre-Separation and Hicksite records include: men's and joint minutes 1803-1936, women's minutes 1803-85, vital records 1754-1923, and miscellaneous 1889-1920. Orthodox records include: men's and joint minutes 1868-1918, women's minutes 1863-1892, Ministers and Elders minutes 1841-1898, and miscellaneous, 1927-1929.

Dates: 1754-1936
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Centre Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/C375
Identifier: QM-B-C375
Scope and Contents

Records of Centre Quarterly Meeting, 1835-1994 and 2009. Includes men's and joint minutes 1835-1994 and digital minutes for 2009 and women's minutes 1835-85.

Dates: 1835-1994, 2009
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Corinth Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-C611
Scope and Contents

Records of Corinth Monthly Meeting, 1906-1966. Includes minutes 1906-1966, property records 1882-1906, and miscellaneous 1902.

Dates: 1906-1966
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Crooked Run Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/C761
Identifier: QM-B-C761
Scope and Contents

Records of Crooked Run Monthly Meeting, 1782-1807. Includes men's and joint minutes 1782-96, women's minutes 1782-89, and vital records 1745-1807.

Dates: 1782-1807
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Deer Creek Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-B-D441
Scope and Contents

Records of Deer Creek Monthly Meeting, pre-Separation, Orthodox, Hicksite, and United, 1742-2019. Includes men's and joint minutes 1760-2013, women's minutes 1760-1902, Ministers and Elders minutes 1868-1891, 1923-1937, vital records 1742-2001, financial records 1930-1936, property records 1876-1879, and committee records 1903-1906. Includes some digital records, including the meeting newsletter 2011-2013.

Dates: 1742 - 2019
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Drumore Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/D781
Identifier: QM-B-D781
Scope and Contents

Records of Drumore Preparative Meeting, 1870-1936. Includes minutes 1870-1936.

Dates: 1870-1936
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Dunnings Creek and Fishertown Monthly Meetings Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-B-D861
Scope and Contents Records of Dunnings Creek and Fishertown Monthly Meetings, 1794-1990. Includes men's and joint minutes 1803-1973, women's minutes 1803-1867, 1883-1887, worship & ministry and its predecessors 1922, vital records 1803-1990, financial records 1935-1938, property records 1794-1868, committees 1894-1897,1909-1929, 1943, 1956-1971, and miscellaneous 1904.Some minutes in the 1950s-1970s of the two meetings were digitized from a photocopy. Some digital minutes, reports, and...
Dates: 1794 - 2019
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Dunnings Creek Half-Years and Quarterly Meetings (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/D869
Identifier: QM-B-D869
Scope and Contents

Records of Dunnings Creek Half-Years and Quarterly Meetings, 1839-1911. Includes men's and joint minutes 1892-1899, women's minutes 1840-1891, and worship & ministry and its predecessors 1844-1876, 1900-1911.

Dates: 1839-1911
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Eastland Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/E371
Identifier: QM-B-E371
Scope and Contents Records of Eastland Preparative Meeting, 1796-1954. Includes men's and joint minutes 1803-1926, women's minutes 1807-1890, vital records 1803-1954, financial and property records 1885-1954, and miscellaneous 1796-1843.Current records of Eastland Preparative Meeting (along with those of Penn Hill Preparative Meeting) are arranged and described with Little Britain Monthly Meeting, which is modeled on the traditional British system of two worshipping congregations constituting a...
Dates: 1796-1954
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Elk Horn Valley Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/E511
Identifier: QM-B-E511
Scope and Contents

Records of Elk Horn Valley Monthly Meeting, 1908-1926. Includes minutes 1908-1924, vital records 1908-1923, 1925-1926, and miscellaneous 1921-1924.

Dates: 1908-1926
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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