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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 335 Collections and/or Records:

Valley Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/V359
Identifier: QM-NY-V359
Abstract

Records of Valley Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1799-1916. Includes men's minutes 1806-83, women's minutes 1799-1883, joint minutes 1883-1902; and miscellaneous 1869-1871.

Dates: 1799-1902
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Valley Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-V335
Abstract

Records of Valley Preparative Meeting, 1793-1863. Includes men's minutes 1806-63; and women's minutes 1793-1822.

Dates: 1782-1863
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Washington Square Monthly and Preparative Meetings Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-W335
Abstract

Records of Washington Square Meeting, 1959-1976. Includes Minutes, 1962-76; Register 1975; and Miscellaneous papers 1959-72.

Dates: 1959-1976
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Rochester Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/R637
Identifier: QM-NY-R637
Abstract

Records of Rochester Preparative Meeting, 1821-1896. Includes: men's minutes, 1821-79; women's minutes, 1840-80; and joint minutes, 1879-96.

Dates: 1821-1896
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Branch Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-W417
Abstract

Records of West Branch Monthly Meeting, 1887-1988. Includes minutes 1890-1975/1977-88, vital records 1887-1979, committee records, 1893-1930, and miscellaneous papers, 1904-83.

Dates: 1887-1988
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Branch Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W425
Identifier: QM-NY-W425
Abstract

Records of West Branch Preparative Meeting, 1800-1849. Includes minutes 1800-49.

Dates: 1800-1849
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Branch Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W415
Identifier: QM-NY-W415
Abstract

Records of West Branch Preparative Meeting, 1880-1890. Includes minutes, 1880-90.

Dates: 1880-1890
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Hartford Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W433
Identifier: QM-NY-W433
Abstract

Records of West Hartford Monthly Meeting 1805-1818. Includes minutes, 1805-18.

Dates: 1805-1818
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Hartford Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-W435
Abstract

Records of West Hartford Preparative Meeting, 1800-23. Includes minutes, 1800-23, and financial records 1810-23.

Dates: 1800-1823
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Laurens Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-W443
Abstract

Includes the minutes of the mens meeting for business, 1810-1832, minutes of the womens meeting for business, 1851-1896, and an account book, 1819-1842.

Dates: 1810-1896
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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