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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:

Adirondack Friends Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-A293
Abstract

Records of Adirondack Friends Meeting, 1985-ongoing. Includes: membership Records 1952-1990 & ca. 1893-1993; newsletters, 1985-1989. Predecessor meetings are described separately.

Dates: ca. 1893-1995
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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

Auburn Prison Friends Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-A935
Abstract

Includes: Minutes and Correspondence, 1974-1986; Minutes 1979-1990.

Dates: 1974-1990
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Batavia Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B335
Identifier: QM-NY-B335
Abstract

Records of Batavia Monthly Meeting, 1915-1969. Includes: minutes, 1915-1969; Register: Births and Deaths, 1916-1969; deed, mortgage, etc.; account book, 1935-1951; treasurer's book, property and financial correspondence 1940, 1968-70; Miscellaneous: correspondence 1927-30, 1910-16, meeting notes.

Dates: 1915-1969
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

Bern Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B455
Abstract

Includes: Men's minutes, 1806-1826.

Dates: 1806-1826
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Bethpage Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B477
Abstract

Includes records of the pre-Separation and Hicksite Bethpage Preparative Meeting: men's minutes, 1773-2010; women's minutes, 1789-1795, 1805-1890; treasurer's book, 1785-1804.

Dates: 1773-2010
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Binghamton Community Friends Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B491
Abstract

Records of Binghamton Community Friends Meeting, 1982-ongoing. Includes: minutes 1982-2009.

Dates: 1982-2009
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Blooming Grove Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B513
Abstract

Includes: Men's minutes, 1828-1846, 1846-1863, 1863-1871; Women's minutes, 1812-1821, 1822-1826; 1826-1843, 1843-1857, 1857-1871.

Dates: 1812-1871
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Blooming Grove Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B515
Abstract

Records of Blooming Grove Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1812-1872. Includes men's minutes, 1828-36 and 1851-72, and women's minutes, 1845-1862. Records also include the minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting, 1812-1828.

Dates: 1812-1872
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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