Skip to main content
Header image

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:

Jamestown Friends Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-J355
Abstract

Records of Jamestown Friends Meeting, 1951-1960. Includes: Minutes, history, and births & deaths, 1951-1960.

Dates: 1951-1960
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Peru Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-P493
Abstract

Records of Peru Monthly Meeting, 1766-1868 (Pre-Separation and Orthodox). Includes men's minutes 1799-1868, women's minutes 1828-68, vital records 1766-1866, Ministers & Elders minutes 1804-68.

Dates: 1766-1868
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Peru Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-P495
Abstract

Records of Peru Preparative Meeting, 1799-1862. Includes men's minutes 1799-1808 and women's minutes 1828-1862.

Dates: 1798-1862
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Peru Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-P497
Abstract

Records of Peru Preparative Meeting, 1798-1870. Includes men's minutes 1808-70, women's minutes 1798-1870, and lists of books in library, 1844-60.

Dates: 1798-1870
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Pittstown Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/P517
Identifier: QM-NY-P517
Abstract

Records of Pittstown Preparative Meeting, 1796-1880. Includes men's minutes 1796-1880, and women's minutes 1796-1875.

Dates: 1796-1880
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Plains Monthly Meeting (Pre-Separation and Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-P554
Abstract

Includes: men's minutes, 1838-1854; women's minutes, 1814-1851; marriage certificates (abstracts), 1814-1848; ministers and elders' minutes, 1830-53.

Dates: 1814-1854
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Plainfield Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-P547
Abstract

Records of Plainfield Preparative Meeting 1834-93. Includes men's and joint minutes 1834-53 and 1890-93, and women's minutes 1871-1890.

Dates: 1834-1893
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Pleasant Valley Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/P597
Identifier: QM-NY-P597
Abstract

Records of Pleasant Valley Preparative Meeting, 1816-1880. Includes men's minutes 1816-80; and women's minutes 1818-75.

Dates: 1816-1880
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Poughkeepsie Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/P657
Identifier: QM-NY-P657
Abstract

Records of Poughkeepsie Preparative Meeting (Hicksite). Includes: Minutes (men's & joint), women's minutes, and records of the First Day School library.

Dates: 1836-1913
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Poplar Ridge Friends Church Records (including its predecessors Poplar Ridge (Orthodox) and Scipio (Orthodox) Preparative Meetings)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S378
Abstract

Records of Poplar Ridge Friends Church and its predecessors Poplar Ridge Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and Scipio Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-1820. Includes minutes 1828-1902 and 1906-20.

Dates: 1828-1920
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
trico lib
Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections