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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:

Scipio Executive and Monthly Meetings (Pre-Separation and Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S383
Abstract

Records of Scipio Executive Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) and its predecessor Scipio Monthly Meeting of Friends. Includes minutes 1827-1924, vital records 1775-1924, and miscellaneous 1824-1917.

Dates: 1775-1924
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Scipio Monthly Meeting (Pre-Separation) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S381
Abstract

Records of Scipio Monthly Meeting, 1808-27. Includes men's minutes, 1808-22, women's minutes 1808-27, and removal certificates 1807-25.

Dates: 1807-1827
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Scipio Preparative Meeting (Pre-Separation and Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/S377
Identifier: QM-NY-S377
Abstract

Records of Scipio Preparative Meeting, 1808-1909. Includes minutes (men's, women's and joint), 1808-1909.

Dates: 1808-1909
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Scipio Preparative Meetings (Otisite and Wilburite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/S379
Identifier: QM-NY-S379
Abstract

Records of the Wilburite and Otisite Scipio Preparative Meetings, 1847-1868. Includes Women's minutes, 1847-1868.

Dates: 1847-1868
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Shelby Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/S519
Identifier: QM-NY-S519
Abstract

Men's minutes of Shelby Preparative Meeting, 1822-1848.

Dates: 1822-1848
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Shrewsbury and Plainfield Half-Yearly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S573
Abstract

Records of Shrewsbury and Plainfield Half-Yearly Meeting, 1705-2013 (known as Shrewbury and Plainfield Quarterly Meeting until 1891). Includes men's, women's, and joint minutes 1705-1972/1991-2013; Worship & Ministry minutes 1799-2013; and miscellaneous.

Dates: 1705-2013
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Rochester Executive and Monthly Meetings (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-R633
Abstract

Records of Rochester Executive Meeting, 1825-1956. Includes men's, women's and joint minutes 1825-1916; vital records 1769-1915; Ministers' and Elders' minutes 1862-1913; and financial and property records, 1936-1956.

Dates: 1769-1916
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Skaneateles Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S599
Abstract

Records of Skaneateles Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox), 1828-1922. Includes minutes, 1828-1902, and a treasurer's book, 1898-1922.

Dates: 1828-1922
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Skaneateles Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/S597
Identifier: QM-NY-S597
Abstract

Records of Skaneateles Preparative Meeting (Hicksite & pre-Separation), 1821-90. Includes men's minutes, 1821-90.

Dates: 1821-1890
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Smith's Clove Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S627
Abstract

Records of Smith's Clove Preparative Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1803-1918. Includes men's, women's, and joint minutes, 1803-1918, deeds, 1800-1801, and miscellaneous records.

Dates: 1801-1918
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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