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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:

Mendon Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-M457
Abstract

Records of Mendon Preparative Meeting, 1833-1914. Includes minutes men's and joint, 1833-1914, women's minutes, 1833-1869, Property dispute correspondence, 1955, and New York Supreme Court decisions, 1956-57.

Dates: 1833-1914
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Middleburg Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-M517
Abstract

Records of Middleburg Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1828-1836. Includes records from the Women's meeting, 1828-1836.

Dates: 1828-1836
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Middlesex Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-M537
Abstract

Records of Middlesex Preparative Meeting, 1809-1834. Includes: Men's minutes, 1809-1846, Women's minutes, 1809-1835, and deed, 1810..

Dates: 1809-1846
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Milton and Greenfield Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

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

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

Montpelier Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-M647
Abstract

Records of Montpelier Preparative Meeting 1803-1832. Includes men's minutes, 1803-32, and women's minutes, 1805-24.

Dates: 1803-1832
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Palmyra Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/P337
Identifier: QM-NY-P337
Abstract

Records of Palmyra Preparative Meeting, 1825-1854. Includes men's and women's minutes, 1825-54.

Dates: 1825-1854
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Paltz Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/P357
Identifier: QM-NY-P357
Abstract

Records of Paltz Preparative Meeting, 1828-1835. Includes men's minutes, 1828-35.

Dates: 1828-1835
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Peekskill Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/P437
Identifier: QM-NY-P437
Abstract

Records of Peekskill Preparative Meeting, 1828-71. Includes men's minutes 1828-71, and women's minutes 1854-71.

Dates: 1828-1871
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Peekskill Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-P439
Abstract

Records of Peekskill Preparative Meeting, 1816-1851. Includes women's minutes, 1816-51.

Dates: 1816-1851
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Peru Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-P491
Abstract

Records of Peru Monthly Meeting, 1799-1867 (Pre-Separation and Hicksite). Includes men's minutes 1828-67, women's minutes 1799-1866, vital records 1799-1839, and property records 1838.

Dates: 1799-1867
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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