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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:

Morningside Heights Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-M677
Abstract

Records of Morningside Heights Preparative Meeting, 1957-1974. Includes minutes, 1957-1974 (with gaps from 1970-72) and Clerk's files, 1960-66 and 1974, miscellaneous, including travel minutes, 1962-63 and reports 1960-74, and newsletter. Also includes indexes for minutes 10/61-9/65.

Dates: 1957-1974
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Lafayette Avenue Friends and Brooklyn Preparative Meetings (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-L336
Abstract

Records of Lafayette Avenue Friends Meeting and its predecessor, Brooklyn Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1861-1959. Includes: Minutes 1869-1959; Vital Records 1857-1957; Sunday School Records 1861-1921; Young Peoples Association, 1892-1897; Christian Endeavor Society 1825-1934; Ladies League, 1911-1941; Pastoral Committee 1906-1959; bulletins, 1932-59; and Correspondence and Papers 1895-1979.

Dates: 1861-1959
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Hudson and Chatham Executive Meeting (Hicksite) Records (including its predecessor monthly meetings)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-H855
Abstract

Includes: Minutes, 1793-1905; women's minutes, 1793-1880; marriage and removal certificates, 1794-1905; births and deaths, 1810-1920; treasurers book, 1816-1889; record of deeds 1788-1905; items of history, 1896, and miscellaneous records.

Dates: 1793-1905
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Collins Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C639
Abstract

Records of Collins Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-1879. Includes: Minutes 1828-1879, women's minutes, 1857-1874, and financial Records 1845-1858.

Dates: 1828-1879
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Cornwall Local and Preparative Meetings (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C677
Abstract

Records of Cornwall Local Meeting of Friends (Orthodox). Includes men's and women's minutes and a library catalogue.

Dates: 1828-1903
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Collins Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C633
Abstract

Records of Collins Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1828-1851. Includes: Minutes 1828-1850, women's minutes, 1828-1851, Register 1814-1832 (includes Eden Monthly Meeting), and births & deaths, 1829-32.

Dates: 1814-1851
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Cobleskill Friends Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C615
Abstract

Records of Cobleskill Friends Meeting. Includes: Minutes, 1961-1963.

Dates: 1961-19634
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Clintondale Young Peoples Christian Endeavor Society of Friends Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C597
Abstract

Records of Clintondale Young Peoples Endeavor Society. Includes: Minutes, 1895-1916; and rollbook, 1895-1900.

Dates: 1895-1900
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Clark's Corners Friends' Church Records (including Moreau Preparative Meeting (Orthodox))

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C519
Abstract

Records of Clark's Corners Friends' Church and its predecessor, Moreau Preparative Meeting, 1854-1899 and 1911. Includes men's and joint minutes.

Dates: 1854-1911
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Clear Creek Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C535
Abstract

Records of Clear Creek Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and its pre-Separation predecessor. Includes: Minutes, 1820-1878, and women's minutes, 1820-1834.

Dates: 1820-1878
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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