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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 10 Collections and/or Records:

Cambridge Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/C335
Identifier: QM-NY-C335
Abstract

Includes: Men's minutes, 1813-1848; women's minutes, 1813-1848.

Dates: 1813-1848
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Easton and Saratoga Half Yearly Meeting Records (including its Half Yearly and Quarterly predecessors Easton (Hicksite), Easton & Granville, Easton & Saratoga, and Saratoga (Hicksite))

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-E378
Abstract

Records of Easton and Saratoga Half Yearly Meeting (1927-1986) and its predecessors, Easton Half Yearly (Hicksite: 1924-27), Easton & Granville Half Yearly (1898-1924), Easton and Saratoga Quarterly (1871-1898), Easton Quarterly (Hicksite: 1828-1871), Easton Quarterly (1795-1828), and Saratoga Quarterly (Hicksite: 1828-71). Includes: Minutes, (men's and joint), 1793-1985, women's minutes, 1793-1884, and minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1793-1871.

Dates: 1793-1986
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Easton Monthly Meeting Records (including its predecessor Saratoga 1778-1794)

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/E373
Identifier: QM-NY-E373
Abstract Records of Easton Monthly Meeting and its predecessor, the first Saratoga Monthly Meeting, 1778-ongoing. Includes: men's, women's & joint minutes, 1778-1985, births & deaths, 1735-1973, marriages, 1778-87 & 1789-1964, membership, 1778-1790, removals, 1790-1959, Ministers and Elders minutes, 1832-1925, minutes and accounts of Friends Seminary, 1874-1894, an accounts ledger, 1892-1985, and Newsletters 1990-95, Membership, 1778-90 also includes list of members of East Hoosick, White...
Dates: 1778-1995
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Easton Preparative Meeting Records (including Saratoga Preparative and North Easton Preparative)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-E377
Abstract

Records of Easton Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its predecessors, Saratoga 1779-1896, and North Easton, 1896. Includes: men's and women's minutes, 1779-1896.

Dates: 1779-1896
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Granville and Darby Monthly Meetings (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/G735
Identifier: QM-NY-G735
Abstract

Records of Granville Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) and its predecessor, Danby Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-1857. Includes: Minutes 1828-1857, and marriages & removals, 1828-1857.

Dates: 1828-1857
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Granville and Darby Monthly Meetings (Pre-Separation and Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/G733
Identifier: QM-NY-G733
Abstract

Records of Granville Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) and its predecessors, the pre-Separation and Hicksite branches of Danby Monthly Meeting, 1795-1913. Includes: men's minutes, 1795-1878, women's minutes (and joint), 1815-1913, marriages (abstract), 1795-1876, membership, 1795-1878, and records of Danby Lyceum, 1850-1867.

Dates: 1795-1913
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Granville Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/G737
Identifier: QM-NY-G737
Abstract

Records of Granville Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1864-1935. Includes: Minutes, 1864-1883 and miscellaneous papers, 1880-1935. Also includes a copy of the deed recording the final sale of the meeting house in 1935.

Dates: 1864-1935
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Granville Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/G739
Identifier: QM-NY-G739
Abstract

Records of Granvile Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1826-1858. Includes: Minutes 1826-1858.

Dates: 1826-1858
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Northern Quarterly Meeting (including Easton (Orthodox), Ferrisburgh, Glen Falls, and Saratoga (Orthodox)) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/N696
Identifier: QM-NY-N696
Abstract

Records of Northern Quarterly Meeting, including its predecessors in Ferrisburgh Quarterly, Glen Falls Quarterly, Easton (Orthodox) Quarterly, and Saratoga (Orthodox) Quarterly. Includes men's, women's, and joint minutes, and ministers and elders' minutes.

Dates: 1810 - 1986
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

White Creek Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W557
Identifier: QM-NY-W557
Abstract

Records of White Creek Preparative Meeting, 1818-1853. Includes Women's minutes, 1818-1853.

Dates: 1818-1853
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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