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

Record Group Term

Identifier: QM/NY/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 34 Collections and/or Records:

Oblong Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/O377

Identifier: QM-NY-O377

Overview

Records of Oblong Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1780-1866. Includes men's minutes, 1780-1854, and women's minutes, 1820-66. Testifications, 1780-87, are bound with minutes, 1802-1818.

Dates: 1780-1866

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

Oblong Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/O379

Identifier: QM-NY-O379

Overview

Records of Oblong Preparative Meeting (Orthodox & pre-Separation), 1800-1887. Includes men's minutes, 1854-1887 and women's minutes, 1800-1886.

Dates: 1800-1887

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

Oswego Preparative Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/O857

Identifier: QM-NY-O857

Overview

Records of Oswego Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its pre-Separation predecessor, Oswego Preparative Meeting. Includes: Minutes (men's & joint), 1794-1911, and women's minutes, 1834-1886.

Dates: 1794-1911

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

Pleasant Valley Preparative Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/P597

Identifier: QM-NY-P597

Overview

Records of Pleasant Valley Preparative Meeting, 1816-1880. Includes men's minutes 1816-80; and women's minutes 1818-75.

Dates: 1816-1880

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

Poughkeepsie Monthly Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/P655

Identifier: QM-NY-P655

Overview Records of Poughkeepsie Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Oswego Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) and Oswego Monthly Meeting (pre-Separation), 1799-ongoing. Includes: Minutes (mens and joint), 1799-1888 and 1888-1977/1980-2019; women's minutes, 1828-1900; marriages and removals, 1828-1900; births and deaths, 1828-1885; births, deaths, marriages, and removals, 1871-1975; minutes of the meeting of Ministry and Counsel and its predecessors, 1853-1971; minutes of Quaker Maids Club, 1873-1971;...

Dates: 1799-2019

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

Poughkeepsie Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/P657

Identifier: QM-NY-P657

Overview

Records of Poughkeepsie Preparative Meeting (Hicksite). Includes: Minutes (men's & joint), women's minutes, and records of the First Day School library.

Dates: 1836-1913

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