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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:

Wheatland Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W533
Identifier: QM-NY-W533
Overview

Records of Wheatland Preparative Meeting, 1828-68. Includes men's & women's minutes, 1828-68.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1828-1884

Wheatland Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W537
Identifier: QM-NY-W537
Overview

Records of Wheatland Preparative Meeting, 1824-67. Includes minutes, 1824-67.

Dates: 1824-1867

White Creek Preparative Meeting Records

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

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

Dates: 1818-1853

Williamson Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W575
Identifier: QM-NY-W575
Overview

Records of Williamson Preparative Meeting 1826-37. Includes minutes 1826-37.

Dates: 1826-1837

Wilton and Fairfield County Monthly Meetings Records (including Weston Preparative)

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W593
Identifier: QM-NY-W593
Overview

Records of Wilton Monthly Meeting, 1942-ongoing, including minutes of meeting for business, early member registers, and newsletters.

Dates: 1942-2014

Yorktown and Amawalk (Orthodox) Monthly Meetings Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/Y655
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