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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 11 Collections and/or Records:

Bethpage Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B477
Identifier: QM-NY-B477
Overview

Includes records of the pre-Separation and Hicksite Bethpage Preparative Meeting: men's minutes, 1773-2010; women's minutes, 1789-1795, 1805-1890; treasurer's book, 1785-1804.

Dates: 1773-2010
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Jericho Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/J451
Identifier: QM-NY-J451
Overview

Records of Jericho Monthly Meeting, 1789-1953. Includes: men's, women's and joint minutes, 1789-1948; Vital records including births and deaths, 1811-88, membership 1796-1955, and marriages 1789-1972; Ministers and Elders records 1817-1953; Financial records 1817-1933; and a Weekend Conference register, 1911.

Dates: 1789-1972
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Jericho Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/J457
Identifier: QM-NY-J457
Overview

Records of Jericho Preparative Meeting, 1787-1956. Includes: Minutes (men's & joint), 1787-1956; Women's minutes, 1834-1911; Financial records 1861-1910; and School Committee records 1787-1842.

Dates: 1787-1956
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Manhasset Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/M353
Identifier: QM-NY-M353
Overview

Records of Manhasset Monthly Meeting, 1961-present. Includes minutes, 1961-1995, burial Records 1822-1982, and newsletters, 1984-88.

Dates: 1961-1995
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Manhasset Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/M357
Identifier: QM-NY-M357
Overview

Records of Manhasset Preparative Meeting, 1784-1961. Includes: Men's and joint minutes, 1800-1961, and Women's minutes, 1784-1886.

Dates: 1784-1961
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Matinecock Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/M383
Identifier: QM-NY-M383
Overview

Records of Matinecock Monthly Meeting, including minutes, 1961-75 and 1976-1981, and newsletter, 1984-2009 (with gaps).

Dates: 1961 - 2009
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Matinecock Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/M387
Identifier: QM-NY-M387
Overview

Records of Matinecock Preparative Meeting, 1776-1948.

Dates: 1776-1949
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Westbury Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W455
Identifier: QM-NY-W455
Overview

Records of Westbury Monthly Meeting, 1828-1947. Includes minutes, 1828-1937, and vital records, 1828-1947. Pre-Separation and Hicksite records described in QM-NY-W453.

Dates: 1828-1947
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Westbury Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W453
Identifier: QM-NY-W453
Overview

Records of Westbury Monthly Meeting, 1660-. Includes minutes 1697-2018; vital records 1660-1995; deeds, 1685-1745; financial records 1723-1931; Ministers and Elders, 1819-1973; and miscellaneous materials, 1696-1995. In 1828 the Hicksite Separation divided the meeting and the Orthodox branch (which was active 1828-1938) records are described separately, following the arrangement maintained by New York Yearly Meeting's Haviland Records Room, from where the records were transfered in 1997.

Dates: 1660 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Westbury Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W459
Identifier: QM-NY-W459
Overview

Records of Westbury Preparative Meeting, 1853-1902. Includes minutes 1853-1902.

Dates: 1853-1902
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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