QM/NY/MM. Constituent Monthly, Preparative, and Quarterly meetings

Record Group Term

Identifier: QM/NY/MM

Staff Only

_____ 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:

Chatham-Summit and Summit Monthly Meetings Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-S835

Abstract

Records of Chatham-Summit and Summit Monthly Meetings, 1942-2018. Includes minutes 1942-2018, vital records 1944-2010, and newsletters 1965-2018.

Dates: 1942-2018

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

Matinecock Preparative Meeting Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-M387

Abstract

Records of Matinecock Preparative Meeting, 1776-1948.

Dates: 1723 - 1949

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

Schenectady Monthly Meeting Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-S365

Abstract

Records of Schenectady Monthly Meeting from 1944. Includes minutes 1944-2002 (with gaps), State of Society reports (1965-1966) and Treasurer's reports (2000-2016), some statistical membership information, and unprocessed papers from 1964-1999.

Dates: 1944-2002

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

Shelter Island Executive Meeting Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-S531

Abstract

Minutes of Shelter Island Executive Meeting, 1980-1999, including minutes (1980-1997).

Dates: 1980 - 1999

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

Ithaca Monthly Meeting Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-I853

Abstract

Records of Ithaca Monthly Meeting and its predecessor, the Ithaca Association of Friends, 1926-ongoing. Includes: Minutes, 1926-2013, newsletter 1980-1984, and Directory 1979-80, 1986. The first volume of minutes includes a register of members and meeting history.

Dates: 1926-2013

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

Westchester Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-W473

Abstract

Records of Westchester Preparative Meeting, 1797-1860. Includes minutes, 1797-1860, and financial Records 1815-37.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1797-1925

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

Hudson Monthly Meeting Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-T353

Abstract

Records of Taghkanic-Hudson Monthly Meeting, 1951-1999, with many gaps.

Dates: 1951-1999

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

Unadilla Monthly Meeting Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-U535

Abstract

Records of Unadilla Monthly Meeting, 1896-2002. Includes minutes of the preparative meeting, 1896-1902, and of the monthly 1903-62; financial records 1917-51; and miscellaneous unprocessed material from the 1960s-2002.

Dates: 1896 - 2002

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