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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:

Little Falls Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/L585
Identifier: QM-B-L585
Scope and Contents

Records of Little Falls Preparative Meeting, 1825-1937. Includes men's and joint minutes 1846-1927, women's minutes 1825-93.

Dates: 1825-1937
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Black Creek Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-B533
Scope and Contents

Records of Black Creek Monthly Meeting, 1907-1966. Includes men's and joint minutes 1907-1966 and Worship & Ministry and its predecessors minutes 1907-1966.

Dates: 1907-1966
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Somerton Monthly Meeting Records (including Chuckatuck/Nansemond, Western Branch, and Lower)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-S664
Scope and Contents

Records of Somerton Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Chuckatuck/Nansemond, Lower and Western Branch, 1673-1946. Includes men's and joint minutes 1673-1756, 1894, 1907-1946, women's minutes 1891-1894, and vital records 1673-1756, 1879-1949.

Includes minutes from Pagan Creek Monthly Meeting 1738-1763, and Lower Preparative Meeting 1894.

Dates: 1673-1946
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Maury River Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/M420
Identifier: QM-B-M420
Scope and Contents

Records of Maury River Friends Meeting, 1965-2022. Includes minutes, newsletters, and miscellaneous records, including some member information from the 2010s. Also includes the minutes of Lexington Preparative Meeting, 1986-1990.

Minutes 2012-2022 are digital only. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.

Dates: 1965 - 2022
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Menallen Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/M461
Identifier: QM-B-M461
Abstract

Records of Menallen Monthly Meeting, 1755-2019, including men's/women's/joint minutes, vital records, and property and burial records, among others.

Dates: 1733 - 2017
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Monongalia Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-M700
Scope and Contents

Records of Monongalia Monthly Meeting in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Dates: 1978 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Newberry Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/N494
Identifier: QM-B-N494
Scope and Contents

Records of Newberry Preparative Meeting, 1811, 1935, and n.d. Includes financial and property records 1811, and miscellaneous 1935 and n.d.

Dates: 1811-1935
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Nottingham Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-N681
Scope and Contents

Records of Nottingham Monthly Meeting, 1680-2021. Includes men's and joint minutes, women's minutes 1730-1892, vital records, Ministers and Elders minutes, financial and property records 1763-1925, among other records and reports.

Dates: 1680 - 2021
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Nottingham Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/N685
Identifier: QM-B-N685
Scope and Contents

Records of Nottingham Quarterly Meeting, 1819-2018. Includes men's and joint minutes 1819-1990 and 2011-2018, women's minutes 1819-93, Ministers and Elders minutes 1819-1973, financial and property records 1886-1918, and reports to Yearly Meeting 1835-82.

Dates: 1819 - 2018
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Oxford Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/O944
Identifier: QM-B-O944
Scope and Contents

Records of Oxford Preparative Meeting, 1878-1927. Includes minutes 1883-1927, First-day school minutes 1878-1904.

Dates: 1878-1927
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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