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:

Upper Quarterly Meeting Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-B-U674

Scope and Contents

Records of Upper Quarterly Meeting, 1786-1816, 1837-1843. Includes women's minutes 1786-1816, 1837-1843.

Dates: 1745-1844

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

Midlothian Friends Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/B/M53

Identifier: QM-B-M53

Content Description

Electronic meeting records of Midlothian Friends Meeting, 2010-2020. Records include minutes of meeting for business and state of the meeting report, plus some newsletter and member information.

Special minutes, including those related to BYM finances, climate change, and religious freedom, are also included but are not all dated.

Dates: 2010 - 2020

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

Buckhannon Friends Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/digital

Identifier: QM-B-B800

Abstract

Digital records for Buckhannon Monthly Meeting, 2011-2020.

Dates: 2011 - 2020

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

Fauquier Friends Worship Group Records

Collection — Othertype SW/digital

Identifier: QM-B-F380

Scope and Contents

Digital records for Fauquier Friends Worship Group include Spiritual State of the Meeting reports to Baltimore Yearly Meeting (2015-2019), and occasional minutes (2016-2020).

Dates: 2015 - 2019

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