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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:

Patuxent Monthly Meeting (1871-1942) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-P388
Scope and Contents

Records of Patuxent Monthly Meeting, 1871-1942, including Membership Records, 1809-1939; Marriage Records, 1874-1926; minutes of Men's Meeting and Joint, 1871-1942; Minutes of Women's Meeting, 1871-1889.

Dates: 1809-1942
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

Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting (and its predecessors) Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-B-B358
Scope and Contents Records of Baltimore Quarterly Meeting, pre-Separation, Hicksite, and Orthodox, 1675-1969. Pre-Separation and Hicksite records include: men's and joint minutes, 1675-1949; women's minutes, 1775-1893; Ministers and Elders minutes, 1759-1951; and miscellaneous records, 1812-1963. Orthodox records include: men's and joint minutes, 1710-1775, 1807-1823, 1856-1941, 1956-1969; women's minutes, 1703-1766, 1774, 1855-1900; Mininstry and Oversight and its predecessors, 1852-1941; Baltimore Junior...
Dates: 1675-1969
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Baltimore Monthly Meeting (Homewood) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-B349
Scope and Contents

Records of Baltimore Monthly Meeting, Homewood, 1673-1991. Includes vital records 1674-1968, Men's minutes 1673-1975, Women's minutes 1819-1961, Worship & Ministry and its predecessors 1793-1969, financial records 1842-1979, property records 1713-1968, committee records 1831-1991, and miscellaneous 1698-1991.

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

Quaker Lake Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/Q800
Identifier: QM-B-Q800
Scope and Contents

Minutes of Quaker Lake Friends Meeting, 1991-2006.

Dates: 1991-2006
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Richmond Monthly Meeting Records (including Cedar Creek)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-R534
Scope and Contents

Records of Cedar Creek and Richmond Monthly Meetings and their predecessors, 1729-1999. Includes Men's and Joint minutes 1739-1974, Women's minutes 1754-1890, vital records, 1729-1916, Worship and Ministry and its predecessors 1791-1949, and financial records 1875-1917. Also includes Richmond Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1815-1818, Camp Creek Monthly Meeting records, 1747-1753, and Cedar Creek Preparative Meeting Minutes 1790-1792.

Dates: 1729 - 1999
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Warrington Monthly Meeting (1747-1861) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/W371
Identifier: QM-B-W371
Scope and Contents

Records of Warrington Monthly Meeting, 1739-1876. Includes men's minutes 1747-1840, women's minutes 1753-1857, and vital records 1739-1876.

Dates: 1739-1876
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Warrington Monthly Meeting (1947- ) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-W372
Scope and Contents Records of the second Warrington Monthly Meeting, 1945-. Includes minutes 1947-2017, assorted member-related files 1947-2017, treasurer's reports, and records of the Warrington Friends Cemetery (which continued prior to the second Monthly Meeting being established at Warrington in 1947), and newsletters. Miscellaneous records include a file from the 1980s giving an example of the Meeting Clerk and Overseers eldering a member and his family, apportionment responses to BYM, and state of the...
Dates: 1945 - 2021
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Warrington Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/W374
Identifier: QM-B-W374
Scope and Contents

Records of Warrington Quarterly Meeting and its predecessor, Warrington and Fairfax Quarterly Meeting, 1776-2021. Records include Men's and Joint minutes 1776-2021, women's minutes 1776-1897, Ministers and Elders minutes 1806-1925, and Miscellaneous 1988-2021 (includes reports from the Quarter and reports to the Quarter from its constituent meetings).

Dates: 1776 - 2021
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Washington Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/W376
Identifier: QM-B-W376
Scope and Contents

Records of Washington Preparative Meeting, 1822-48. Includes women's minutes 1822-48.

Dates: 1822-1848
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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