Skip to main content
Header image

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:

Macedon Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-M317
Abstract

Records of Macedon Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1845-1919. Includes minutes (Men's & joint), 1845-1919, and women's minutes, 1858-1881.

Dates: 1845-1919
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Marlborough Monthly Meeting (Pre-Separation and Orthodox) and Plains Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-M363
Abstract

Includes records of Marlborough Monthly Meeting (pre-separation and Orthodox), 1804-1954. Includes men's and joint minutes, 1804-1954, Women's minutes, 1804-1882, Ministers' and Elders' Minutes, 1813-1919, Vital Records 1804-1931, a volume of sufferings, 1808-1855, and an elegy, 1800. Women's minutes 1880-1882 (2.3) also contains Women's minutes from Plains Monthly Meeting, 1851-1854, and joint minutes (Marlborough Monthly Meeting), 1883-1883.

Dates: 1804-1954
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Maryland Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-M377
Abstract

Records of Maryland Preparative Meeting, 1829-1840. Includes men's minutes (clerk's drafts), 1849-55, women's minutes, 1829-1840, and burial grounds information 1969/88. Volume 1.1 also includes women's minutes/extracts, 1850-1853.

Dates: 1829-1855
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Ridge Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/R552
Identifier: QM-NY-R552
Abstract

Records of Ridge Preparative Meeting, 1799-1854. Includes: Minutes, 1799-1845, and women's minutes, 1806-1854.

Dates: 1799-1854
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Riverside Friends Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-R575
Abstract

Records of Riverside Friends Meeting, 1930-63. Includes minutes, 1930-61, and a guest book, 1957-63.

Dates: 1930-1963
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

South Glens Falls Friends Monthly Meeting Records (including Moreau, Saratoga, and Greenfield)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S673
Abstract

Records of South Glens Falls Monthly Meeting and its predecessors. Includes minutes 1847-1959, vital records 1863-1932, and miscellaneous 1923-69. Also included are records of Christian Endeavor, Women's Foreign Missionary Society, Ladies Aid, Friends Sunday/Sabbath School, Docas Society, Polyanna Class, and the Quaker Guild.

Dates: 1847-1969
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Branch Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-W417
Abstract

Records of West Branch Monthly Meeting, 1887-1988. Includes minutes 1890-1975/1977-88, vital records 1887-1979, committee records, 1893-1930, and miscellaneous papers, 1904-83.

Dates: 1887-1988
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Hartford Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W433
Identifier: QM-NY-W433
Abstract

Records of West Hartford Monthly Meeting 1805-1818. Includes minutes, 1805-18.

Dates: 1805-1818
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Laurens Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-W443
Abstract

Includes the minutes of the mens meeting for business, 1810-1832, minutes of the womens meeting for business, 1851-1896, and an account book, 1819-1842.

Dates: 1810-1896
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

West Hartford Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-W435
Abstract

Records of West Hartford Preparative Meeting, 1800-23. Includes minutes, 1800-23, and financial records 1810-23.

Dates: 1800-1823
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
trico lib
Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections