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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:

Elk Ridge Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/E551
Identifier: QM-B-E551
Scope and Contents

Records of Elk Ridge Preparative Meeting, 1795-1827. Includes men's minutes 1795-1800, vital records 1795-1800, and miscellaneous 1825-27.

Dates: 1795-1827
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Fairfax Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/F351
Identifier: QM-B-F351
Scope and Contents

Records of Fairfax Monthly Meeting, 1718-1941. Includes men's and joint minutes 1745-1929, women's minutes 1745-1889, vital records 1722-1924, financial and property records 1929-39, and miscellaneous 1718-1800.

Dates: 1718-1941
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Fairfax Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/F352
Identifier: QM-B-F352
Scope and Contents

Records of Fairfax Quarterly Meeting, 1787-1951. Includes men's and joint minutes 1787-1951, women's minutes 1787-1889, Ministers and Elders minutes 1820-1950, committee records 1793-1856, and miscellaneous 1866-1870.

Dates: 1787-1951.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Federal Hill Mission Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/F434
Identifier: QM-B-F434
Scope and Contents

Records of Federal Hill Mission Meeting, 1879-1906. Includes membership records 1883-1905, minutes 1879-1906, Building Committee records 1889-1885, minutes of Bible School Association, 1886; miscellaneous documents, 1881-1898.

Dates: 1879-1906
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Forest Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/F671
Identifier: QM-B-F671
Scope and Contents

Records of Forest Preparative Meeting, 1851-1927. Includes men's and joint minutes 1851-1927 and women's minutes 1864-89.

Dates: 1851-1927
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Ashton Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-A848
Scope and Contents

Records of Ashton Monthly Meeting, 1887-1950, including Minutes of Men's Meeting and Joint, 1887-1827, 1937-1950; Minutes of Committee on Ministry and Oversight, 1887-1903; Minutes of Organization for Christian Work, 1896-1906; Minutes of Pastoral Committee, 1887-1895.

Dates: 1887-1950
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Goose Creek Monthly Meeting (Loudoun County, Va.) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/G661
Identifier: QM-B-G661
Scope and Contents

Records of Goose Creek Monthly Meeting, 1732-1963 and 1996-2020. Includes men's and joint minutes 1785-1950 (plus 2016 digital minutes), women's minutes 1785-1889, vital records 1732-2013, and miscellaneous 1797-1878 and 1996-2020.

Dates: 1732-1963/1996-2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Goose Creek Monthly Meeting (Bedford County, Va.) Records

 Collection — Othertype HV/B/G665
Identifier: QM-B-G665
Scope and Contents

Records of Goose Creek Monthly Meeting, 1789-1820. Includes men's minutes 1794-1814, women's minutes 1794-1814, vital records 1789-1820, and miscellaneous.

Dates: 1789-1820
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Gunpowder Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/G861
Identifier: QM-B-G861
Scope and Contents

Records of Gunpowder Monthly Meeting, 1687-2020. Includes men's and joint minutes 1739-2003 and 2016-2020, women's minutes 1742-1873, plus vital records 1687-1958, financial and property records, and other records (including born-digital).

Dates: 1687 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Gunpowder Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-G862
Scope and Contents

Records of Gunpowder Preparative Meeting, 1719-1852. Includes Minutes, 1829-1852 and Deaths of North Carolina Friends, 1719-1791.

Dates: 1719-1852
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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