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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:

Westbury Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-W453
Abstract

Records of Westbury Monthly Meeting, 1660-. Includes minutes 1697-2018; vital records 1660-1995; deeds, 1685-1745; financial records 1723-1931; Ministers and Elders, 1819-1973; and miscellaneous materials, 1696-1995. In 1828 the Hicksite Separation divided the meeting and the Orthodox branch (which was active 1828-1938) records are described separately, following the arrangement maintained by New York Yearly Meeting's Haviland Records Room, from where the records were transfered in 1997.

Dates: 1660 - 2020
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Purchase Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-P831
Abstract

Records of Purchase Meeting, 1725-. Includes minutes 1725-2016, vital records 1700-1989, financial records 1834, miscellaneous 1828-1988, and newsletters 1941-1995.

Dates: 1725-2016
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Scarsdale Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S355
Abstract

Records of Scarsdale Monthly Meeting, 1898-ongoing. Includes minutes 1942-2018 (gaps), assorted vital records 1898-1999, and other 20th century records.

Dates: 1898-2018
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Stamford-Greenwich Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S721
Abstract

Records of Stamford-Greenwich Monthly Meeting, 1956-2002.

Dates: 1956-2002
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Poughkeepsie Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-P655
Abstract

Records of Poughkeepsie Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Oswego Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) and Oswego Monthly Meeting (pre-Separation), 1799-2019 and is ongoing.

Dates: 1799-2019
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Saratoga Monthly Meeting (1794- ) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S341
Abstract

Records of Saratoga Monthly Meeting and Saratoga Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1794-ongoing. Includes: Minutes 1794-1983 and 1996-2008, vital Records 1787-1877 and 2000-2002, Ministers and Elders Records 1800-1873, deeds, miscellaneous papers, and newsletter.

Dates: 1787-2008
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting (1954- ) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S555
Abstract

Records of Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting (1954- ), 1937-1999. Includes minutes, 1937-1997 (with gaps), newsletters through 1999 (with gaps), and some member-related files.

Dates: 1937 - 1999
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

New Paltz Friends Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-N433
Abstract

Records of New Paltz Friends Meeting, 1953-1996. Includes minutes, 1953-1995, a record of removals and register, 1957-1996, and a series of newsletters and mailings, 1957-1995.

Dates: 1953-1996
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Syracuse Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S975
Abstract

Records of Syracuse Monthly Meeting and Syracuse Quarterly Meeting, 1936-(ongoing). Includes minutes and assorted papers, 1936-2023 with gaps.

Dates: 1936 - 2023
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Coeymans Executive and Monthly Meetings (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C623
Abstract

Includes: minutes (men's & joint), 1799-1842 and 1875-1898; women's minutes, 1799-1867; births & deaths, 1761-1847/1828-1856; marriages, 1829-1867; marriage intentions, 1799-1867; minutes of the Meeting of Ministers & Elders, 1828-1862; and a treasurer's book, 1815-1830. Also includes: Preparative Meeting (Pre-separation/Hicksite) minutes, 1789-1851.

Dates: 1761-1898
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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