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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:

Charleston Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C435
Abstract

Includes: Minutes, 1815-1842.

Dates: 1815-1842
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Chappaqua Preparative Meeting (Pre-Separation and Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C418
Abstract

Records of Chappaqua Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and its pre-Separation predecessor, 1791-1875. Includes men's and women's minutes, 1791-1875.

Dates: 1791-1875
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Creek and Stanford Monthly Meetings (Pre-Separation and Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C731
Abstract

Records of Creek Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), Creek & Stanford Monthly Meeting, Creek Monthly Meeting (pre-Separation), Stanford Monthly Meeting (pre-Separation), and Stanford Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). Includes: minutes; women's minutes; vital Records including births & deaths, 1810-1871 & 1827-1946, and marriages & removals, 1828-1885; reports of Sufferings; minutes of the meeting of Ministers & Elders, and a Treasurer's book.

Dates: 1803-1917
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Croton Valley Local Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C777
Abstract

Records of Croton Valley Local Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) and its pre-Separation predecessor, Croton Valley Preparative Meeting, 1818-1938. Includes: Minutes 1818-1902 and 1929-1938, women's minutes, 1836-1866, and minutes of the Trustees of Croton Valley School, 1817-1825.

Dates: 1818-1938
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Croton Preparative Meeting (Pre-Separation and Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C757
Abstract

Records of Croton Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and its pre-Separation predecessor, 1797-1895. Includes: Men's & women's minutes, 1797-1895.

Dates: 1797-1895
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Buffalo Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B839
Identifier: QM-NY-B839
Abstract

Records of Buffalo Preparative Meeting (Hicksite). Includes: Minutes, 1876-1898.

Dates: 1876-1898
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Buffalo Executive Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B835
Identifier: QM-NY-B835
Abstract

Records of Buffalo Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1914-1931. Includes: Minutes 1923-1931; Treasurer's Book, 1914-1931.

Dates: 1914-1931
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Easton and Saratoga Half Yearly Meeting Records (including its Half Yearly and Quarterly predecessors Easton (Hicksite), Easton & Granville, Easton & Saratoga, and Saratoga (Hicksite))

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-E378
Abstract

Records of Easton and Saratoga Half Yearly Meeting (1927-1986) and its predecessors, Easton Half Yearly (Hicksite: 1924-27), Easton & Granville Half Yearly (1898-1924), Easton and Saratoga Quarterly (1871-1898), Easton Quarterly (Hicksite: 1828-1871), Easton Quarterly (1795-1828), and Saratoga Quarterly (Hicksite: 1828-71). Includes: Minutes, (men's and joint), 1793-1985, women's minutes, 1793-1884, and minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1793-1871.

Dates: 1793-1986
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Buffalo Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B837
Abstract

Records of Buffalo Monthly Meeting and of the Buffalo Niagara Friends Group, 1939-ongoing. Includes: Minutes, Ministry & Counsel files, Newsletters, and miscellaneous records.

Dates: 1939 - 2022
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Amawalk Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/A497
Identifier: QM-NY-A497
Abstract

Records of Amawalk Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1777-1886. Includes: Minutes, 1814-1886, and women's minutes, 1777-1886.

Dates: 1777-1886
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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