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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:

Purchase Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-P853
Abstract

Records of Purchase Quarterly Meeting, 1745-ongoing. Includes minutes 1745-2023 (with many periods lacking) and miscellaneous material 1893-1992, including information on the Edward B. Underhill Fund, Peach Pond Meeting House, and the ministry at Taconic Correctional Facility

Dates: 1745 - 2024
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Queensbury Monthly Meeting (Pre-Separation and Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/Q441
Identifier: QM-NY-Q441
Abstract

Records of Queensbury Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) and its predecessor, 1811-1877. Includes: Minutes (men's), 1828-62; women's minutes, 1811-23 & 1840-63; vital records 1828-1877.

Dates: 1811-1877
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Queensbury Preparative Meeting (Pre-Separation and Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/Q447
Identifier: QM-NY-Q447
Abstract

Records of Queensbury Preparative Meeting of Friends and its predecessor, 1787-1863. Includes: Minutes 1787-1863.

Dates: 1787-1863
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meeting Records (including Woodbridge)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-R431
Abstract

Records on New York Yearly Meeting's Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meeting, 1685-present, including Pre-Separation, Hicksite, and United records. Includes minutes 1723-1988, vital records 1705-1979, property records 1780s-1940s, miscellaneous 1773-1989, and newsletters 1937-ongoing.

Dates: 1686 - 2007
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Rensselaerville Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-R473
Abstract

Records of Rensselaerville Monthly Meeting, 1814-95. Includes minutes 1814-95; and vital records 1814-67.

Dates: 1814-1895
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Rensselaerville Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-R475
Abstract

Records of Rensselaerville Monthly Meeting, 1814-67. Includes women's minutes 1828-38; and vital records 1814-67.

Dates: 1814-1867
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Junius Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-J855
Abstract

Records of Julius Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1828. Includes: Men's and women's minutes and correspondence, 1828, and records of property seizures 1815-1819.

Dates: 1815-1828
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Newark Monthly Meeting (Newark, NJ) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-N481
Abstract

Records of Newark Monthly Meeting, 1917-1928. Includes minutes 1917-28; membership register 1917-28; treasurer's records 1918-28.

Dates: 1917-1928
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

New Brunswick Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-N413
Abstract

Records of New Brunswick Monthly Meeting, 1927-2023. Includes minutes, 1927-2023, and newsletters/mailings, 1980-1995.

Dates: 1927 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

North Collins Preparative Meeting and Collins Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-N627
Abstract

Records of North Collins Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) and its predecessor, Collins Preparative Meeting (Hicksite), 1840-1877. Includes: Men's & women's minutes, 1840-1877.

Dates: 1840-1877
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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