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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 10 Collections and/or Records:

Le Ray Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/L475
Identifier: QM-NY-L475
Abstract

Records of LeRay Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox), 1830-1871. Includes: Women's Minutes, 1830-1871.

Dates: 1830-1871
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Lee Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/L437
Identifier: QM-NY-L437
Abstract

Records of Lee Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1840-1871. Includes: Minutes 1840-1871 and a library record..

Dates: 1840-1871
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Lowville Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/L775
Identifier: QM-NY-L775
Abstract

Records of Lowville Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) and its pre-Separation predecessor, 1826-1859. Includes: Vital Records 1826-1859.

Dates: 1826-1859
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Mohawk Valley Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/M613
Identifier: QM-NY-M613
Abstract

Records of Mohawk Valley Monthly and Preparative Meetings, 1939-1987. Includes minutes, 1945-1987, miscellaneous Records 1939-2001, and newsletters, 1980-91 and 1995.

Dates: 1939-[ongoing]
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Branch Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W417
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 (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

Western Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W483
Identifier: QM-NY-W483
Abstract

Records of Western Monthly Meeting, 1843-71. Includes minutes, 1843-71; vital records, 1843-71; and financial records, 1843-71.

Dates: 1843-1871
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Western Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W487
Identifier: QM-NY-W487
Abstract

Records of Western Preparative Meeting, 1813-67. Includes minutes, 1813-67.

Dates: 1813-1867
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Westmoreland, Bridgewater, and New Hartford Preparative Meetings (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W529
Identifier: QM-NY-W529
Abstract

Minutes of Bridgewater Preparative Meeting, 1828-38; minutes of New Hartford Preparative Meeting 1828-65; and minutes of Westmoreland Preparative Meeting 1826-1828 and 1860-92;

Dates: 1828-1870
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Westmoreland Monthly Meeting Records (including Bridgewater (Pre-Separation and Orthodox) and New Hartford)

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W525
Identifier: QM-NY-W525
Abstract

Records of Westmoreland Monthly Meeting and its Pre-Separation and Orthodox predecessors, 1867-1924. Includes minutes, 1817-1920; vital records, 1818-85; and miscellaneous items, 1827-1914.

Dates: 1817-1920
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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