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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:

Brookfield Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B773
Identifier: QM-NY-B773
Abstract

Includes: Minutes, 1902-1950; Christian Endeavor Society Minutes, 1903-1936; Register-births and deaths, 1815-1938.

Dates: 1815-1950
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Albany Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/A417
Identifier: QM-NY-A417
Abstract

Includes: Women's Preparative Meeting minutes, 1833-1865; Men's Preparative Meeting minutes, 1833-1870.

Dates: 1833-1894
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Butternuts Monthly Meeting (1810-1881) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B875
Abstract

Records of Butternuts Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) and its pre-Separation predecessor, 1810-1881. Includes: Minutes, Mens 1810-1881; Minutes, Womens 1810-1819; Births and Deaths 1788-1899/1809-1869; and Ministers and Elders minutes 1838-1875.

Dates: 1810-1881
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Butternuts Monthly Meeting (1988- ) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B871
Abstract

Records of Butternuts Monthly Meeting (1988- ), 1986-ongoing. Includes: minutes of Butternuts Monthly Meeting, 1988-1996, as well as minutes of Oneonta Combined Friends Meeting, its direct predecessor, 1986-1988.

Dates: 1988-1992
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Branch Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B715
Abstract

Includes: Men's minutes, 1790-1811; women's minutes, 1795-1804 & 1839-1853.

Dates: 1790-1853
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Brookfield Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B775
Abstract

Includes: Men's minutes, 1809-1832 and 1832-1846; women's minutes, 1809-1832 and 1832-1854.; and historical notes (no date)

Dates: 1809-1854.; 1809-1854
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Blooming Grove Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B513
Abstract

Includes: Men's minutes, 1828-1846, 1846-1863, 1863-1871; Women's minutes, 1812-1821, 1822-1826; 1826-1843, 1843-1857, 1857-1871.

Dates: 1812-1871
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Bern Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B455
Abstract

Includes: Men's minutes, 1806-1826.

Dates: 1806-1826
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Binghamton Community Friends Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B491
Abstract

Records of Binghamton Community Friends Meeting, 1982-ongoing. Includes: minutes 1982-2009.

Dates: 1982-2009
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Batavia Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B335
Identifier: QM-NY-B335
Abstract

Records of Batavia Monthly Meeting, 1915-1969. Includes: minutes, 1915-1969; Register: Births and Deaths, 1916-1969; deed, mortgage, etc.; account book, 1935-1951; treasurer's book, property and financial correspondence 1940, 1968-70; Miscellaneous: correspondence 1927-30, 1910-16, meeting notes.

Dates: 1915-1969
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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