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

 Record Group Term
Identifier: QM/NY/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 3 Collections and/or Records:

Collins Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/C633
Identifier: QM-NY-C633
Overview

Records of Collins Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1828-1851. Includes: Minutes 1828-1850, women's minutes, 1828-1851, Register 1814-1832 (includes Eden Monthly Meeting), and births & deaths, 1829-32.

Dates: 1814-1851

Collins Monthly Meeting Records (including Concord and Hamburgh)

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/C635
Identifier: QM-NY-C635
Overview Records of Collins Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Collins Monthly Meeting (Orthodox and pre-Separation), Concord Monthly Meeting, and Hamburgh Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1820-ongoing. Includes: Minutes of Concord, Collins (Orthodox), and Collins Monthly Meeting, 1820-1964/2000-20011, minutes of Hamburgh Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-1846, vital records of Collins Monthly Meeting including births, deaths and marriages, 1841-1945, marriages and removals, 1832-65, and a membership...
Dates: 1820 - 2015

Orchard Park Monthly Meeting Records (including East Hamburg, Hamburg (Hicksite), and Eden)

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/O751
Identifier: QM-NY-O751
Overview

Records of Orchard Park Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, East Hamburg Executive and Monthly Meetings (Hicksite), Hamburg Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) , Hamburg Monthly Meeting, and Eden Monthly Meeting, 1751-ongoing. Includes: Minutes 1814-2002; Vital records 1751-1942, including births & deaths, 1759-1866 & 1751-1942, marriages & removals, 1822-99, and removals, 1819-92; Ministers & Elders minutes, 1821-1907; Financial records 1831-1958; Newsletter 1981-95.

Dates: 1814 - 2002