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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:

Adirondack Friends Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-A293
Abstract

Records of Adirondack Friends Meeting, 1985-ongoing. Includes: membership Records 1952-1990 & ca. 1893-1993; newsletters, 1985-1989. Predecessor meetings are described separately.

Dates: ca. 1893-1995
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Bethpage Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B477
Abstract

Includes records of the pre-Separation and Hicksite Bethpage Preparative Meeting: men's minutes, 1773-2010; women's minutes, 1789-1795, 1805-1890; treasurer's book, 1785-1804.

Dates: 1773-2010
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Brooklyn Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B797
Abstract

Minutes of Brooklyn Preparative Meeting and its Hicksite predecessor, 1837-1974. Includes: Men's minutes, 1837-1974; women's minutes, 1837-1901; minutes, Brooklyn First Day School Association and its Board, 1868-1886, Friendly Hand, 1889-1987, Brooklyn Fellowship Group, 1927-56.

Dates: 1837-1974
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Ferrisburgh Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-F455
Abstract

Records of Ferrisburgh Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) and its predecessors, 1801-1916. Includes minutes, 1828-1867, women's minutes, 1801-1877, a register, ca. 1885-1916, an abstract of marriage intentions and dealings, 1801-1850, minutes of the meeting of Ministers & Elders, and an account book, 1811-1912.

Dates: 1801-1916
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Alfred Monthly Meeting Records (including Finger Lakes)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-A435
Abstract

Includes: minutes of Alfred Monthly Meeting and its predecessor, Finger Lakes Monthly Meeting, from 1952. Vol. 1965-1969 also includes Alfred Preparative Meeting minutes, 1952-1969.

Dates: 1952-2016
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Stanford Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/S755
Identifier: QM-NY-S755
Abstract

Records of Stanford Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite), 1828-96. Includes men's, women's, and Ministers' and Elders' minutes 1828-96.

Dates: 1828-1896
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Coeymans Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C626
Abstract

Records of Coeymans Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). Includes: Minutes 1828-1867; vital records 1799-1867; Ministers and Elders minutes 1808-1862.

Dates: 1799-1867
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Monkton Ridge Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-M629
Abstract

Records of Monkton Ridge Preparative Meeting (Orthodox and pre-Separation), 1801-1913. Includes Men's and joint minutes, 1801-1902, Women's minutes, 1801-1862, Pastoral Committee minutes, 1906-1913, Finance and Property records, 1878-1919, and Register 1888-1975.

Dates: 1801-1913
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Mt. Kisco Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-M697
Abstract

Records of Mt. Kisco Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its indirect predecessor, Croton Valley Preparative Meeting, 1803-1904. Includes: minutes, 1804-1904 (gaps), as well as a record of the visits of travelling Friends, 1803-1850.

Dates: 1803-1904
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Milton Executive Meeting Records (including Milton Preparative and Marlborough Preparative Meetings (Orthodox))

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-M596
Abstract

Records of Milton Executive Meeting and its predecessors, Milton Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and Marlborough Preparative Meeting (pre-Separation and Orthodox), 1820-1963.

Dates: 1820-1963
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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