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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:

Smyrna Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S639
Abstract

Minutes of Smyrna Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1847-83.

Dates: 1847-1883
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Somerville Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S657
Abstract

Records of Somerville Preparative Meeting, 1955-58. Includes minutes 1955-58.

Dates: 1955-1958
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Southold Executive Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S693
Abstract

Records of Southold Executive Meeting, 1966-90. Includes Minutes 1966-89; and membership records 1966-90.

Dates: 1966-1990
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Stanford Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/S735
Identifier: QM-NY-S735
Abstract

Records of Stanford Preparative Meeting (Hicksite). Includes women's minutes, 1828-1840.

Dates: 1828-1840
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Rochester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/R635
Identifier: QM-NY-R635
Abstract

Records of Rochester Monthly Meeting, 1828-1901. Includes men's and women's minutes, 1828-1901; Ministers' and Elders' minutes 1831-1866.

Dates: 1828-1901
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Stanford Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/S737
Identifier: QM-NY-S737
Abstract

Records of Stanford Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-1901. Includes minutes, 1828-1901.

Dates: 1828-1901
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Stanford Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/S757
Identifier: QM-NY-S757
Abstract

Records of Stanford Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox), 1832-67. Includes men's, women's, and ministers' and elders' minutes 1832-67.

Dates: 1832-1867
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Starksborough Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S775
Abstract

Records of Starksborough Monthly Meeting, 1739-1905. Includes men's minutes 1813-38; and vital records 1739-1905.

Dates: 1739-1905
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Starksborough Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/S778
Identifier: QM-NY-S778
Abstract

Records of Starksborough Preparative Meeting, 1853-55. Includes women's minutes 1853-55.

Dates: 1853-1855
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Staten Island Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S797
Abstract

Records of Staten Island Monthly Meeting, 1986-. Includes minutes 1986-90.

Dates: 1986-1992
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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