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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:

Athens Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/A815
Identifier: QM-NY-A815

Auburn Prison Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/A935
Identifier: QM-NY-A935
Overview

Includes: Minutes and Correspondence, 1974-1986; Minutes 1979-1990.

Dates: 1974-1990

Batavia Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B335
Identifier: QM-NY-B335
Overview

Records of Batavia Monthly Meeting, 1915-1969. Includes: minutes, 1915-1969; Register: Births and Deaths, 1916-1969; deed, mortgage, etc.; account book, 1935-1951; treasurer's book, property and financial correspondence 1940, 1968-70; Miscellaneous: correspondence 1927-30, 1910-16, meeting notes.

Dates: 1915-1969

Beekman Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B437
Identifier: QM-NY-B437
Overview

Records of Beekman Preparative Meeting, 1810-28. Includes: Men's minutes, 1810-1828.

Dates: 1810-1828

Bern Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B455
Identifier: QM-NY-B455

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

Binghamton Community Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B491
Identifier: QM-NY-B491
Overview

Records of Binghamton Community Friends Meeting, 1982-ongoing. Includes: minutes 1982-2009.

Dates: 1982-2009

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

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

Boston Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B615
Identifier: QM-NY-B615
Overview

Includes: Men's minutes, 1813-1850 and 1850-1876; women's minutes, 1843-1867 and 1867-1887 (includes joint minutes)

Dates: 1813-1887