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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 7 Collections and/or Records:

Blooming Grove Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B513
Identifier: QM-NY-B513
Overview

Includes: Men's minutes, 1828-1846, 1846-1863, 1863-1871; Women's minutes, 1812-1821, 1822-1826; 1826-1843, 1843-1857, 1857-1871.

Dates: 1812-1871
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Blooming Grove Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B515
Identifier: QM-NY-B515
Overview

Records of Blooming Grove Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1812-1872. Includes men's minutes, 1828-36 and 1851-72, and women's minutes, 1845-1862. Records also include the minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting, 1812-1828.

Dates: 1812-1872
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Cornwall Local and Preparative Meetings (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/C677
Identifier: QM-NY-C677
Overview

Records of Cornwall Local Meeting of Friends (Orthodox). Includes men's and women's minutes and a library catalogue.

Dates: 1828-1903
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Cornwall Monthly Meeting (1788- ) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/C673
Identifier: QM-NY-C673
Overview

Records of Cornwall Monthly Meeting and its Hicksite predecessor, 1788-ongoing. Includes: Minutes 1788-1979/1990-2013; women's minutes, 1788-1890; vital records 1788-1973; minutes of Ministers and Elders, 1795-1861, and Ministry and Counsel 1907-1932; minutes of the Young Friends Association, 1871-1926; newsletter, 1985-93 and 1995.

Dates: 1788-2013
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Cornwall Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/C675
Identifier: QM-NY-C675
Overview

Records of Cornwall Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-1906. Includes: minutes (men's & joint), 1828-1906; women's minutes, 1828-1881; vital records 1788-1896; Ministers and Elders minutes, 1831-1867.

Dates: 1828-1906
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Cornwall Preparative Meeting (Pre-Separation and Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/C679
Identifier: QM-NY-C679
Overview

Records of Cornwall Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its predecessor, the pre-Separation Cornwall Preparative Meeting. Includes: Men's and women's minutes, 1786-1927.

Dates: 1786-1927
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Smith's Clove Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/S627
Identifier: QM-NY-S627
Overview

Records of Smith's Clove Preparative Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1803-1918. Includes men's, women's, and joint minutes, 1803-1918, deeds, 1800-1801, and miscellaneous records.

Dates: 1801-1918
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections