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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 336 Collections and/or Records:

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

Westbury Preparative Meeting (Pre-Separation and Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W457
Identifier: QM-NY-W457
Overview

Records of Westbury Preparative Meeting, 1789-1959. Includes minutes, 1789-1959.

Dates: 1789-1959
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Westchester Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W473
Identifier: QM-NY-W473
Overview

Records of Westchester Preparative Meeting, 1797-1860. Includes minutes, 1797-1860, and financial Records 1815-37.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1797-1925
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Westchester Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W477
Identifier: QM-NY-W477
Overview

Records of Westchester Preparative Meeting, 1828. Includes minutes, 1828.

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

Western Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W483
Identifier: QM-NY-W483
Overview

Records of Western Monthly Meeting, 1843-71. Includes minutes, 1843-71; vital records, 1843-71; and financial records, 1843-71.

Dates: 1843-1871
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Western Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W487
Identifier: QM-NY-W487
Overview

Records of Western Preparative Meeting, 1813-67. Includes minutes, 1813-67.

Dates: 1813-1867
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Westmoreland, Bridgewater, and New Hartford Preparative Meetings (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W529
Identifier: QM-NY-W529
Overview

Minutes of Bridgewater Preparative Meeting, 1828-38; minutes of New Hartford Preparative Meeting 1828-65; and minutes of Westmoreland Preparative Meeting 1826-1828 and 1860-92;

Dates: 1828-1870
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Westmoreland Monthly Meeting Records (including Bridgewater (Pre-Separation and Orthodox) and New Hartford)

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W525
Identifier: QM-NY-W525
Overview

Records of Westmoreland Monthly Meeting and its Pre-Separation and Orthodox predecessors, 1867-1924. Includes minutes, 1817-1920; vital records, 1818-85; and miscellaneous items, 1827-1914.

Dates: 1817-1920
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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