QM/NY/MM. Constituent Monthly, Preparative, and Quarterly meetings

Record Group Term

Identifier: QM/NY/MM

Staff Only

_____ 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 335 Collections and/or Records:

Athens Preparative Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/A815

Identifier: QM-NY-A815

Abstract

Includes: Minutes, 1830-1890; women's minutes, 1842-1880.

Dates: 1830-1890

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

Beekman Preparative Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B437

Identifier: QM-NY-B437

Abstract

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

Dates: 1810-1828

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

Chatham Preparative Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/C445

Identifier: QM-NY-C445

Abstract

Includes: Minutes of the men's meeting for business, 1819-1849, and women's minutes, 1826-1880.

Dates: 1819-1880

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

Clintondale Local Business Meeting Records (including Plattekill Preparative (Orthodox))

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/C595

Identifier: QM-NY-C595

Abstract

Records of Clintondale Local Business Meeting and its predecessors, Plattekill Preparative Meeting and Clintondale Preparative Meeting (Orthodox). Includes: Minutes, 1853-1874 & 1894-1936, and births & deaths, 1822-1928.

Dates: 1853-1936

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