QM/B/MM. Constituent Monthly, Preparative, and Quarterly meetings

Record Group Term

Identifier: QM/B/MM

Staff Only

_____ 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:

Washington Monthly Meeting Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-B-W375

Scope and Contents

Records of Washington Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1807-1956. Includes minutes 1899-1956, Ministry and Counsel, 1899-1941, financial records 1892-1947, property records 1807-1948, and committee records 1893-1941.

Dates: 1807-1956

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

West Baltimore United Preparative Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/B/W471

Identifier: QM-B-W471

Scope and Contents

Records of West Baltimore United Preparative Meeting of Friends, 1944-62. Includes minutes 1944-63.

Dates: 1944-1963

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

West Branch Monthly Meeting (Clearfield County, Pa.) Records

Collection — Othertype SW/B/W473

Identifier: QM-B-W473

Scope and Contents

Records of West Branch Monthly Meeting, 1833-2018. Includes Men's and Joint minutes 1833-1991, women's minutes 1833-84, marriages 1834-83, First-day school minutes 1863-1991, and First day school attendance books 1959-91, plus miscellaneous reports deposited by the YM Office.

Dates: 1833 - 2018

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

Woodlawn Preparative Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/B/W661

Identifier: QM-B-W661

Scope and Contents

Records of Woodlawn Preparative Meeting, 1860-81. Includes minutes, 1860-1881.

Dates: 1860-1881.

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

Western Quarterly Meeting (1797-1817) Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-B-W479

Scope and Contents

Records of Western Quarterly Meeting, 1797-1817. Includes men's minutes 1797-1817, and women's minutes 1797-1817.

Dates: 1797-1817

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

York Monthly Meeting (1786-1858) Records

Collection — Othertype SW/B/Y671

Identifier: QM-B-Y671

Scope and Contents

Records of the first York Monthly Meeting, 1765-1857, 1907. Includes minutes 1786-1857, vital records 1786-1854, and miscellaneous records 1765-1907.

Dates: 1765-1857, 1907.

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

York Monthly Meeting (1952- ) Records

Collection — Othertype SW/B/Y672

Identifier: QM-B-Y672

Scope and Contents

Records of the second York Monthly Meeting of Friends and its independent predecessor, 1914-2022. Includes minutes 1932-2022, membership, 1914, and miscellaneous, 1923-1992.

Dates: 1914 - 2022

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