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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 336 Collections and/or Records:

Branch Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B715
Identifier: QM-NY-B715
Overview

Includes: Men's minutes, 1790-1811; women's minutes, 1795-1804 & 1839-1853.

Dates: 1790-1853

Brookfield Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B773
Identifier: QM-NY-B773
Overview

Includes: Minutes, 1902-1950; Christian Endeavor Society Minutes, 1903-1936; Register-births and deaths, 1815-1938.

Dates: 1815-1950

Brookfield Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B775
Identifier: QM-NY-B775
Overview

Includes: Men's minutes, 1809-1832 and 1832-1846; women's minutes, 1809-1832 and 1832-1854.; and historical notes (no date)

Dates: 1809-1854.; 1809-1854

Brooklyn Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B791
Identifier: QM-NY-B791
Scope and Contents

Includes: Minutes 1975-2021 (including digital), Brooklyn Friends Meeting Newsletter, 1989-95, and Miscellaneous.

Dates: 1975 - 2021

Brooklyn Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B797
Identifier: QM-NY-B797
Overview

Minutes of Brooklyn Preparative Meeting and its Hicksite predecessor, 1837-1974. Includes: Men's minutes, 1837-1974; women's minutes, 1837-1901; minutes, Brooklyn First Day School Association and its Board, 1868-1886, Friendly Hand, 1889-1987, Brooklyn Fellowship Group, 1927-56.

Dates: 1837-1974

Buffalo Executive Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B835
Identifier: QM-NY-B835
Overview

Records of Buffalo Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1914-1931. Includes: Minutes 1923-1931; Treasurer's Book, 1914-1931.

Dates: 1914-1931

Buffalo Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B837
Identifier: QM-NY-B837
Overview

Records of Buffalo Monthly Meeting and of the Buffalo Niagara Friends Group, 1939-ongoing. Includes: Minutes, Ministry & Counsel files, Newsletters, and miscellaneous records.

Dates: 1939 - 2022

Buffalo Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B839
Identifier: QM-NY-B839
Overview

Records of Buffalo Preparative Meeting (Hicksite). Includes: Minutes, 1876-1898.

Dates: 1876-1898

Bulls Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B855
Identifier: QM-NY-B855
Overview Records of Bulls Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Oswego Monthly Meeting and Oswego Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). Includes: minutes, men's and joint, 1826-2013; women's minutes, 1799-1887; vital records including marriages, 1799-1900, marriages & removals, 1809-1875, births & deaths, 1810-1933, marriages & removals, 1875-1917, births & deaths, 1927-1980, removals, 1979-1995; minutes of the meeting of Ministers and Elders 1883-1859 & 1890-1910; account books...
Dates: 1799-2013

Butternuts Monthly Meeting (1810-1881) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B875
Identifier: QM-NY-B875
Overview

Records of Butternuts Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) and its pre-Separation predecessor, 1810-1881. Includes: Minutes, Mens 1810-1881; Minutes, Womens 1810-1819; Births and Deaths 1788-1899/1809-1869; and Ministers and Elders minutes 1838-1875.

Dates: 1810-1881