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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:

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

Herndon Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-H470
Abstract

Digital records for Herndon Friends Meeting, 2009-2019.

Dates: 2009 - 2019
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Mattaponi Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-M380
Abstract

Digital records for Mattaponi Friends Meeting, 2011-2019.

Dates: 2011 - 2019
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Patapsco Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-P380
Abstract

Digital records for the current Patapsco Friends Meeting, 2010-2020.

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

Patuxent Friends Meeting (1995- ) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-P389
Abstract

Digital records for Patuxent Friends Meeting, 2010-2018.

Dates: 2010 - 2018
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Williamsburg Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-W500
Abstract

Digital records of Williamsburg Friends Meeting, 2010-2020, and the former Norfolk Preparative Meeting, 2011-2019.

Dates: 2010 - 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

State College Friends Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-S720
Scope and Contents

Records include: Minutes (with gaps) of the Independent and United Monthly Meeting for Business since 1925 through 2023; Membership records, 1932-1994; Visitors' Register, 1927-1966; Newsletters, 1953-2019, and Spiritual State of the Meeting reports and BYM apportionment responses.

Dates: 1925 - 2023
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
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