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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 14 Collections and/or Records:

Catskill Monthly Meeting Records (including Plains (Hicksite) and Greenfield and Neversink)

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/C355
Identifier: QM-NY-C355
Overview

Records of Catskill Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Plains Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) and Greenfield and Neversink Executive Meeting, 1828-ongoing. Includes: Minutes (men's & joint), 1847-2002, and a register of marriages and removals, 1828-1863, and membership list. 1999.

Dates: 1828-2002

Clintondale Local Business Meeting Records (including Plattekill Preparative (Orthodox))

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/C595
Identifier: QM-NY-C595
Overview

Records of Clintondale Local Business Meeting and its predecessors, Plattekill Preparative Meeting and Clintondale Preparative Meeting (Orthodox). Includes: Minutes, 1853-1874 & 1894-1936, and births & deaths, 1822-1928.

Dates: 1853-1936

Clintondale Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/C593
Identifier: QM-NY-C593
Overview

Records of Clintondale Monthly Meeting, 1946-1995. Includes minutes, 1946-1995, and membership to 1995.

Dates: 1874-1995

Clintondale Young Peoples Christian Endeavor Society of Friends Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/C597
Identifier: QM-NY-C597
Overview

Records of Clintondale Young Peoples Endeavor Society. Includes: Minutes, 1895-1916; and rollbook, 1895-1900.

Dates: 1895-1900

Greenfield Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/G799
Identifier: QM-NY-G799
Overview

Records of Greenfield Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its pre-Separation predecessor, 1809-1817, 1840-1859 and 1864-1884. Includes: Minutes 1809-17 & 1864-84, and women's minutes, 1840-59.

Dates: 1809-1884

Marlborough Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/M361
Identifier: QM-NY-M361
Overview

Records of Marlborough Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1828-1846. Includes Men's minutes, 1828-1847, and Women's minutes, 1828-1847, and an 1847 proclamation from the meeting declaring independence from New York Yearly Meeting.

Dates: 1828-1847

Marlborough Monthly Meeting (Pre-Separation and Orthodox) and Plains Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/M363
Identifier: QM-NY-M363
Overview

Includes records of Marlborough Monthly Meeting (pre-separation and Orthodox), 1804-1954. Includes men's and joint minutes, 1804-1954, Women's minutes, 1804-1882, Ministers' and Elders' Minutes, 1813-1919, Vital Records 1804-1931, a volume of sufferings, 1808-1855, and an elegy, 1800. Women's minutes 1880-1882 (2.3) also contains Women's minutes from Plains Monthly Meeting, 1851-1854, and joint minutes (Marlborough Monthly Meeting), 1883-1883.

Dates: 1804-1954

Marlbrough Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/M367
Identifier: QM-NY-M367
Overview

Records of Marlborough Preparative Meeting, 1832-1837. Includes Men's minutes, 1832-1837.

Dates: 1832-1847

Milton Executive Meeting Records (including Milton Preparative and Marlborough Preparative Meetings (Orthodox))

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/M596
Identifier: QM-NY-M596
Overview

Records of Milton Executive Meeting and its predecessors, Milton Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and Marlborough Preparative Meeting (pre-Separation and Orthodox), 1820-1963.

Dates: 1820-1963

New Paltz Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/N433
Identifier: QM-NY-N433
Overview

Records of New Paltz Friends Meeting, 1953-1996. Includes minutes, 1953-1995, a record of removals and register, 1957-1996, and a series of newsletters and mailings, 1957-1995.

Dates: 1953-1996