Skip to main content

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 15 Collections and/or Records:

Adirondack Friends Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/A293
Identifier: QM-NY-A293
Overview

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

Clark's Corners Friends' Church Records (including Moreau Preparative Meeting (Orthodox))

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/C519
Identifier: QM-NY-C519
Overview

Records of Clark's Corners Friends' Church and its predecessor, Moreau Preparative Meeting, 1854-1899 and 1911. Includes men's and joint minutes.

Dates: 1854-1911

Easton and Saratoga Half Yearly Meeting Records (including its Half Yearly and Quarterly predecessors Easton (Hicksite), Easton & Granville, Easton & Saratoga, and Saratoga (Hicksite))

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/E378
Identifier: QM-NY-E378
Overview

Records of Easton and Saratoga Half Yearly Meeting (1927-1986) and its predecessors, Easton Half Yearly (Hicksite: 1924-27), Easton & Granville Half Yearly (1898-1924), Easton and Saratoga Quarterly (1871-1898), Easton Quarterly (Hicksite: 1828-1871), Easton Quarterly (1795-1828), and Saratoga Quarterly (Hicksite: 1828-71). Includes: Minutes, (men's and joint), 1793-1985, women's minutes, 1793-1884, and minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1793-1871.

Dates: 1793-1986

Galway Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/G373
Identifier: QM-NY-G373
Overview

Records of Galway Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) and its predecessor, 1802-1865. Includes: Minutes 1828-1865; women's minutes, 1802-1865; Ministers and Elders minutes, 1852-1862; Register, 1850-1861, Correspondence 1932-53.

Dates: 1802-1865

Galway Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/G375
Identifier: QM-NY-G375
Overview

Records of Galway Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) and its predecessor, 1820-1836. Includes: Men's & women's minutes, 1820-1836, and vital Records 1828.

Dates: 1820-1836

Galway Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/G377
Identifier: QM-NY-G377
Overview

Records of Galway Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1797-1861. Includes: Minutes 1797-1861.

Dates: 1815-1861

Greenfield and Milton Monthly Meetings (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/G795
Identifier: QM-NY-G795
Overview

Records of Greenfield Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) and its predecessor, Milton Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-55. Includes: Minutes 1828-1855.

Dates: 1828-1855

Half Moon Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/H339
Identifier: QM-NY-H339
Overview

Records of Half Moon Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and its pre-Separation predecessor, 1801-1840. Includes: Minutes (men's), 1801-1836, and women's minutes, 1801-1840.

Dates: 1801-1840

Milton and Greenfield Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/M597
Identifier: QM-NY-M597
Overview

Records of Milton and Greenfield Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its predecessors Milton Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and Greenfield Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1829-1855.

Dates: 1829-1855

Northern Quarterly Meeting (including Easton (Orthodox), Ferrisburgh, Glen Falls, and Saratoga (Orthodox)) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/N696
Identifier: QM-NY-N696
Overview

Records of Northern Quarterly Meeting, including its predecessors in Ferrisburgh Quarterly, Glen Falls Quarterly, Easton (Orthodox) Quarterly, and Saratoga (Orthodox) Quarterly. Includes men's, women's, and joint minutes, and ministers and elders' minutes.

Dates: 1810 - 1986