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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:

Hopewell Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/H672
Identifier: QM-B-H672
Scope and Contents

Records of Hopewell Preparative Meeting, 1791-1849, 1886-1907. Includes men's minutes 1791-1849.

Dates: 1791-1907
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Huntington Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/H862
Identifier: QM-B-H862
Scope and Contents

Records of Huntington Preparative Meeting, 1833-90. Includes men's minutes 1849-64, women's minutes 1833-74, and miscellaneous 1868-90.

Dates: 1833-1890.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Langley Hill Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-L361
Scope and Contents

Records of Langley Hill Monthly Meeting, which include paper and electronic records (which include those digitized by LHFM from paper and those that were born digital). LHFM has historically combined all of its records into a single annual file, arranged chronologically, which includes all of the meeting for business records along with related correspondence and newsletters. Some records donated by Yearly Meeting Office.

Dates: 1918-2020 (bulk 1961-2020)
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

Lincoln Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-B-L563
Scope and Contents

Records of Lincoln Monthly Meeting, 1834-1950; minutes of Men's Meeting and Joint, 1887-1950; vital records, 1887-1950; minutes of Meeting for Ministry and Oversight, 1886-1922; miscellaneous papers, 1886-1938.

Dates: 1834-1950
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Little Britain Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/L581
Identifier: QM-B-L581
Scope and Contents

Records of Little Britain Monthly Meeting, 1775-2020. Includes men's and joint minutes 1804-2020 (including some from Penn Hill Preparative), women's minutes 1804-1874, vital records 1775-2013, Ministers and Elders minutes 1853-1950, and miscellaneous 1803-2019.

Includes 20th and 21st century records from Little Britain's two constituent preparative meetings (as it is arranged on the traditional English model) of Eastland and Penn Hill.

Dates: 1775 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Little Britain Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/L582
Identifier: QM-B-L582
Scope and Contents

Records of Little Britain Preparative Meeting, 1841-1964. Includes men's and joint minutes 1909-64, women's minutes 1841-73, and financial and property records 1910-34.

Dates: 1841-1964.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Little Elk Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/L583
Identifier: QM-B-L583
Scope and Contents

Records of Little Elk Meeting, 1826-27. Includes financial and property records 1826-27.

Dates: 1826-1827.
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Little Falls Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/L584
Identifier: QM-B-L584
Scope and Contents

Includes men's and joint minutes 1815-2019, women's minutes 1815-1899, vital records 1738-1881 and 2012, and Ministers and Elders minutes 1815-1964. Also includes some 21st-century miscellaneous reports deposited by the YM Office.

Dates: 1738 - 2019
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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
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