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The monthly business meeting is the basic unit of Quaker organization. In the 17th and 18th centuries, only members in good standing could participate. Men and women met separately to conduct business but worshipped together. The business meeting usually included Friends who might worship in several different meeting houses in a defined geographic area. It had responsibility for care of members, authorizing marriages and removals (transfers), and maintaining discipline.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting
Quaker women
In the 17th and 18th centuries each quarterly meeting met four times a year and included representative of a nyumber of monthly meetings within a given region.It functioned as an intermediary between the local meetings and the Yearly Meeting, served as an appellate body for disciplinary matters, and considered questions too large for one meeting to resolve. A quarterly meeting also had the authority to establish or discontinue a monthly, preparative, or particular meeting for worship.
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Northern District
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District
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Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Western District
Includes Certificate of Removal for Grace Stevenson and her daughters to Middletown Monthly Meeting dated 1768; four copies of the Certificate for Removal of Letitia Penn to London dated 1701; Certificate of Removal for Elizabeth Pane to Dublin dated 1711.