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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:

Mattaponi Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-M380
Abstract

Digital records for Mattaponi Friends Meeting, 2011-2019.

Dates: 2011 - 2019
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Patapsco Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-P380
Abstract

Digital records for the current Patapsco Friends Meeting, 2010-2020.

Dates: 2010 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Patuxent Friends Meeting (1995- ) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-P389
Abstract

Digital records for Patuxent Friends Meeting, 2010-2018.

Dates: 2010 - 2018
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Williamsburg Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/digital
Identifier: QM-B-W500
Abstract

Digital records of Williamsburg Friends Meeting, 2010-2020, and the former Norfolk Preparative Meeting, 2011-2019.

Dates: 2010 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

State College Friends Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-S720
Scope and Contents

Records include: Minutes (with gaps) of the Independent and United Monthly Meeting for Business since 1925 through 2023; Membership records, 1932-1994; Visitors' Register, 1927-1966; Newsletters, 1953-2019, and Spiritual State of the Meeting reports and BYM apportionment responses.

Dates: 1925 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Alexandria Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-A441
Scope and Contents Records of Alexandria Monthly Meeting, 1802-ongoing. Includes men's and joint minutes 1802-1933, 1946-59, 1964-2011 (with a few gaps), women's minutes 1853-77, vital records 1823-1940, Ministers and Elders minutes 1829-1944, financial and property records 1802-1906 and 1933-34, committee records 1927-31. Alexandria Friends Meeting sends its newsletter on a monthly basis, through 2023 is boxed with the collection. Some records sent to the Yearly Meeting were deposited by the General Secretary...
Dates: 1802 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Alexandria Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-A442
Scope and Contents

Records of Alexandria Preparative Meeting, 1800-62. Includes men's and joint minutes 1833-62 and financial and property records 1800-49.

Dates: 1800-1862
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Baltimore Monthly Meeting for the Eastern District Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-B351
Scope and Contents

Records of Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends for the Eastern District, and its predecessor Baltimore Monthly Meeting (1792-1807), 1729-1819. Includes men's and joint minutes 1792-1819, women's minutes 1792-1819, vital records 1729-1819, financial and property records 1806-1819, and miscellaneous 1783-1819.

Dates: 1729-1819
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Virginia Half-Years Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-V574
Scope and Contents Records of Virginia Half-Years and Quarterly Meetings, 1673-1996. Includes men's and joint minutes, 1876-1996; women's minutes, 1844-1902; Worship & Ministry and its predecessors, 1809-1810, 1812, 1854-1860, 1864-1916, 1938-1962; vital records, 1928-1970; financial records, 1950-1996; committee records, 1854-1856, 1950-1961, 1982-1996; and miscellaneous, 1785, 1814, 1945, 1956-1965. Most records pre-1843 (from the time when the meeting was a separate Yearly Meeting) are described in...
Dates: 1809-1996
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Sandy Spring Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/S362
Identifier: QM-B-S362
Scope and Contents

Records of Sandy Spring Preparative Meeting, 1828-1918. Includes men's minutes 1828-1881 and ministers and elders minutes 1905-1918. The final volume of minutes also includes minutes of the Sandy Spring Executive Committee for the Temperance Society (1883-1885).

Dates: 1828-1845
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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