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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:

Hector Monthly Meetings (Orthodox and Conservative) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/H453
Identifier: QM-NY-H453
Overview

Records of the Conservative (Wilburite) branch of Hector Monthly Meeting and its predecessor, the pre-schism Orthodox Meeting, including the minutes of both the Otisites and Kingites. Includes: Minutes (men's, women's, and joint), 1830-1950, registers of membership, 1756-1965, the minutes of the Meeting of Ministers & Elders, 1830-1863, Library record, 1860, Publishing Proposal 1824, and Correspondence 1828 and 1923.

Dates: 1756-1965

Hector Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/H455
Identifier: QM-NY-H455
Overview

Records of Hector Preparative Meeting (Orthodox). Includes: Minutes, 1870-1886, and women's minutes, 1847-1878.

Dates: 1847-1886

Hector Preparative Meeting (Otisite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/H457
Identifier: QM-NY-H457
Overview

Records of the Otisite branch of Hector Preparative Meeting. Includes: Minutes, 1859-1879.

Dates: 1859-1879

Henrietta Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/H477
Identifier: QM-NY-H477
Overview

Records of Henrietta Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its pre-Separation predecessor, 1825-1848. Includes: Men's minutes, 1825-48, and women's minutes, 1828-1848.

Dates: 1825-1848

Housatonic Monthly Meeting Records (including Housatonic and Newton Preparatives)

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/H653
Identifier: QM-NY-H653
Overview

Records of Housatonic Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Housatonic Preparative Meeting and Newtown Preparative Meeting, 1957-ongoing. Includes minutes, newsletters, and state of the meeting reports. Beginning in 2021 records have been deposited digitally.

Dates: 1957 - 2023

Hudson and Chatham Executive Meeting (Hicksite) Records (including its predecessor monthly meetings)

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/H855
Identifier: QM-NY-H855
Overview

Includes: Minutes, 1793-1905; women's minutes, 1793-1880; marriage and removal certificates, 1794-1905; births and deaths, 1810-1920; treasurers book, 1816-1889; record of deeds 1788-1905; items of history, 1896, and miscellaneous records.

Dates: 1793-1905

Hudson Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/H856
Identifier: QM-NY-H856

Hudson Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/T353
Identifier: QM-NY-T353
Overview

Records of Taghkanic-Hudson Monthly Meeting, 1951-. Includes minutes 1951-85, and miscellaneous Records 1958-89.

Dates: 1951-1989

Hudson Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/H857
Identifier: QM-NY-H857

Ithaca Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/I853
Identifier: QM-NY-I853
Overview

Records of Ithaca Monthly Meeting and its predecessor, the Ithaca Association of Friends, 1926-ongoing. Includes: Minutes, 1926-2013, newsletter 1980-1984, and Directory 1979-80, 1986. The first volume of minutes includes a register of members and meeting history.

Dates: 1926-2013