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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:

New York Preparative Meetings (Hicksite) for the [second] Northern District (1856-1881) and [second] Western District (1832-1856) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/N462
Identifier: QM-NY-N462
Abstract

Records of the Preparative Meeting of New York for the Northern District (Hicksite : 1856-1881) and its predecessor, Preparative Meeting of New York for the Western District (Hicksite: 1832-1856). Includes: Minutes (men's & joint), 1832-1881, and women's minutes, 1832-1881.

Dates: 1832-1881
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

New York Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) for the [first] Northern District Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/N459
Identifier: QM-NY-N459
Abstract

Records of the Preparative Meeting of New York for the Northern District (Hicksite: 1828-1856) and its predecessor, the pre-Separation Preparative Meeting of New York for the Northern District (1820-28). Includes: Minutes (men's), 1820-1856.

Dates: 1820-1856
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

New York Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-N458
Abstract

Includes: Records of the Preparative Meeting of New York (Hicksite : 1881-1958) and its predecessors, Southern District (Hicksite : 1856-81), Southern District (Hicksite : 1828-56), Southern District (1824-28), Eastern District (1807-24), and New York Preparative Meeting (1753-1806). Includes minutes (men's & joint), 1781-1957, women's minutes, 1833-1856, membership, 1720-1810 & ca. 1850-ca. 1877, financial Records 1784-1815, and a funeral book register, 1796-1826.

Dates: 1720-1957
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

New York Congregational Meeting Records (including New York Preparative Meeting (Pre-Separation and Orthodox))

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-N451
Abstract Records of the New York Congregational Meeting and its predecessor, New York Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-1957. Includes minutes, minutes of the Overseers and the Pastoral Committee, Reception/Visiting Committee, Mission Committee, First Day School (including the Bible-School Assn. of Friends & First Day School Assn.), financial Records and women's minutes of the Eastern District, 1808-1824, and Southern District, 1824-1828. Also includes miscellaneous records of the Friends...
Dates: 1808-1957
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

New York Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-N477
Abstract

Records of New York Quarterly Meeting, 1974-ongoing, including digital records. Includes records from The Workroom, a joint project of the New York Monthly Meetings.

Dates: 1974 - 2021
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

New York Preparative Meeting for the [first] Western District (1806-1822) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/N461
Identifier: QM-NY-N461
Abstract

Records of the first Preparative Meeting of New York for the Western District (1807-1822). Includes: men's minutes, 1806-22, and women's minutes, 1818-22.

Dates: 1806-1822
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

New York-Westbury Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-N476
Abstract

Records of New York-Westbury Quarterly Meeting, 1759-1973. Includes men's, joint, and women's minutes, 1783-1973. Ministers and Elders' minutes 1759-1956; committee minutes 1892-1959; financial records 1833-1972, and miscellaneous 1737-1938.

Dates: 1759 - 2000
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Oakhill Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-O339
Abstract

Records of Oakhill Preparative Meeting, 1812-1820. Includes men's minutes 1812-1820.

Dates: 1812-1820
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Oakwood Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-O353
Abstract

Records of Oakwood Monthly Meeting, 1944-1976. Includes minutes 1944-1963; treasurer's book 1954-1956; and miscellaneous correspondance, reports, and papers 1944-1976.

Dates: 1944-1976
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

New Scotland Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/N447
Identifier: QM-NY-N447
Abstract

Records of New Scotland Preparative Meeting, 1837-1851. Includes men's minutes, 1837-1851.

Dates: 1837-1851
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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