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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:

Clinton Corners Monthly Meeting Records (including its Pre-Separation and Orthodox predecessors Creek and Stanford Meetings)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C733
Abstract

Records of Clinton Corners Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Creek Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) and Stanford Monthly Meeting (Orthodox)

Dates: 1787-1975
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Crum Elbow Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C797
Abstract

Records of Crum Elbow Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its pre-Separation predecessor. Includes: Men's & women's minutes, 1797-1899, and register, 1828-1946.

Dates: 1797-1899
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

DeRuyter Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-D453
Abstract

Records of DeRuyter Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) and its pre-Separation predecessor, 1809-1886. Includes: Minutes, 1820-1886, women's minutes, 1842-1880, births & deaths, 1811-1848, marriages, 1809-1861, marriages & removals, 1809-1862, and minutes of the meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1869-1881.

Dates: 1809-1886
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Farmington-Scipio Regional Meeting Records (including Scipio Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox))

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-F353
Abstract

Records of Farmington-Scipio Regional Meeting (1975- ), and one of its predecessors, the Orthodox Scipio Quarterly Meeting.

Dates: 1825-2015
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Cornwall Monthly Meeting (1788- ) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C673
Abstract

Records of Cornwall Monthly Meeting and its Hicksite predecessor, 1788-ongoing. Includes: Minutes 1788-1979/1990-2013; women's minutes, 1788-1890; vital records 1788-1973; minutes of Ministers and Elders, 1795-1861, and Ministry and Counsel 1907-1932; minutes of the Young Friends Association, 1871-1926; newsletter, 1985-93 and 1995.

Dates: 1788-2013
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Cornwall Preparative Meeting (Pre-Separation and Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C679
Abstract

Records of Cornwall Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its predecessor, the pre-Separation Cornwall Preparative Meeting. Includes: Men's and women's minutes, 1786-1927.

Dates: 1786-1927
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Croton Valley Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C773
Abstract

Records of Croton Valley Monthly Meeting, 1909-ongoing. Includes: Minutes 1929-1997/2004-2010, Clerk's files, 1938-1964, membership Records 1934-1993, Ministry & Counsel minutes, 1991-1994, Financial reports, 1909-1977, and Newsletters, 1939-1995.

Dates: 1909-2010
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Albany Friends Meeting (1942- ) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-A412
Abstract

Records of the second Albany Friends Meeting, 1942-ongoing. Includes: Minutes, 1942-1994, and newsletters, 1965-68.

Dates: 1942-1995
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

All Friends Regional Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-A456
Abstract

Includes: Minutes, 1929-1977 and 1978-1996, and clerks' papers, 1941-1984, including correspondence, reports, etc.

Dates: 1929-1996
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Albany Executive and Monthly Meetings (1840-1915) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-A410
Abstract

Includes: Minutes (men's and joint), 1840-94 and 1894-1915; women's minutes, 1840-69; minutes of the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1841-87 and 1887-94; register & scrapbook, 1840-1915; Deeds and Property Records 1898-1908; contained with the Register are records of births & deaths, marriages, removals, names of the members of Albany and New Scotland Preparative Meetings, and miscellaneous items tipped in.

Dates: 1840-1915
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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