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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:

Westmoreland Monthly Meeting Records (including Bridgewater (Pre-Separation and Orthodox) and New Hartford)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-W525
Abstract

Records of Westmoreland Monthly Meeting and its Pre-Separation and Orthodox predecessors, 1867-1924. Includes minutes, 1817-1920; vital records, 1818-85; and miscellaneous items, 1827-1914.

Dates: 1817-1920
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Westmoreland, Bridgewater, and New Hartford Preparative Meetings (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-W529
Abstract

Minutes of Bridgewater Preparative Meeting, 1828-38; minutes of New Hartford Preparative Meeting 1828-65; and minutes of Westmoreland Preparative Meeting 1826-1828 and 1860-92;

Dates: 1828-1870
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Wheatland Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-W533
Abstract

Records of Wheatland Preparative Meeting, 1828-68. Includes men's & women's minutes, 1828-68.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1828-1884
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Wheatland Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W537
Identifier: QM-NY-W537
Abstract

Records of Wheatland Preparative Meeting, 1824-67. Includes minutes, 1824-67.

Dates: 1824-1867
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

White Creek Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W557
Identifier: QM-NY-W557
Abstract

Records of White Creek Preparative Meeting, 1818-1853. Includes Women's minutes, 1818-1853.

Dates: 1818-1853
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Rockland Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-R651
Abstract

Records of Rockland Monthly Meeting, 1961-1999. Includes minutes, 1961-86; newsletters 1965-68 and 1983-99, properties and deeds, 1814, and the will of William Conklin 1847.

Dates: 1961 - 1999
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Williamson Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W575
Identifier: QM-NY-W575
Abstract

Records of Williamson Preparative Meeting 1826-37. Includes minutes 1826-37.

Dates: 1826-1837
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Wilton and Fairfield County Monthly Meetings Records (including Weston Preparative)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-W593
Abstract

Records of Wilton Monthly Meeting, 1942-ongoing, including minutes of meeting for business, early member registers, and newsletters.

Dates: 1942-2014
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Yorktown and Amawalk (Orthodox) Monthly Meetings Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-Y655
Abstract

Records of Yorktown Monthly Meeting and its predecessor, Amawalk Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1798-1941. Includes: minutes, 1830-1941; women's minutes, 1828-1878; vital records, 1798-1907; and minutes of Ministers and Elders, 1835-1869.

Dates: 1798-1941
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Rye Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-R667
Abstract

Records of Rye Preparative Meeting, 1950-1997, minimally described.

Dates: 1950 - 1997
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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