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 30 Collections and/or Records:
Purchase Preparative Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-P837
Overview
Records of Purchase Preparative Meeting of Friends, 1806-1919. Includes men's, joint and women's minutes 1809-1908, and miscellaneous 1806-1919.
Dates:
1806-1919
Purchase Quarterly Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-P853
Overview
Records of Purchase Quarterly Meeting, 1745-ongoing. Includes minutes 1745-1955 and miscellaneous material 1893-1992, including information on the Edward B. Underhill Fund, Peach Pond Meeting House, and the ministry at Taconic Correctional Facility.
Dates:
1745-1992
Rye Preparative Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-R667
Overview
Records of Rye Preparative Meeting, 1989-1997.
Dates:
1989-1997
Salem Preparative Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S317
Overview
Records of Salem Preparative Meeting, 1804-1882. Includes: Minutes, 1804-1882.
Dates:
1804-1882
Salem Preparative Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S319
Overview
Records of Salem Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-1829. Includes: minutes, 1828-1829.
Dates:
1828-1829
Scarsdale Monthly Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S355
Overview
Records of Scarsdale Monthly Meeting, 1898-ongoing. Includes minutes 1942-2018 (gaps), vital records 1898-1981, and miscellaneous 1943-95.
Dates:
1898-2018
Sing-Sing Worship Group Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S387
Overview
Records of Sing Sing Worship Group. Includes newsletters, 1989-.
Dates:
1989-
Westchester Preparative Meeting Records
Collection
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
Westchester Preparative Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-W477
Overview
Records of Westchester Preparative Meeting, 1828. Includes minutes, 1828.
Dates:
1828
Yorktown Monthly Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-Y655
Overview
Records of Yorktown Monthly Meeting and its predecessor, Amawalk Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1798-1941. Includes: minutes, 1830-1941; women's minutes, 1828-1878; vital records, 1798-1907; and minutes of Ministers and Elders, 1835-1869.
Dates:
1798-1941
