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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 7 Collections and/or Records:

Chatham Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/C445
Identifier: QM-NY-C445
Overview

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

Dates: 1819-1880

Ghent Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/G477
Identifier: QM-NY-G477
Overview

Records of Ghent Preparative Meeting and its predecessor, Klinakill Preparative Meeting, 1799-1905. Includes: Minutes, 1837-1905, and women's minutes, 1799-1871.

Dates: 1799-1905

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

Old Chatham Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/O453
Identifier: QM-NY-O453
Scope and Contents

Records of Old Chatham Monthly Meeting, 1963-2012. Includes minutes 1963-1989 & 1996-2012, records of former members, 1963-1990, newsletters, 1990-1995, and records of space use at Powell House, 1984-88. Post-2004 records are digital; digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.

Dates: 1963-2012