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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:

Brooklyn Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B791
Scope and Contents

Includes: Minutes 1975-2021 (including digital), Brooklyn Friends Meeting Newsletter, 1989-95, and Miscellaneous.

Dates: 1975 - 2021
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Nine Partners Quarterly Meeting Records (including Cornwall Quarterly)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-N573
Abstract

Record of Nine Partners Quarterly Meeting, 1783-ongoing, including its predecessors Cornwall Quarterly (Pre-Separation, Hicksite, and Orthodox), Nine Partners Quarterly (Pre-Separation, Hicksite, and Orthodox) and Half-Yearly (Hicksite), and Cornwall-Nine Partners Quarterly (Orthodox).

Dates: 1783-1990
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Eastern Preparative Meeting at Eastern Correctional Facility Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-E340
Scope and Contents

The records of Eastern Meeting (which was active inside Eastern Correctional Facility circa 1996 through 2010) include both those created by Eastern Meeting's inside members incarcerated at the prison as well as those created by outside members of New Paltz Monthly and Nine Partners Quarterly Meetings. Most of the records relate to Eastern Meeting's challenges in getting the outside meetings to support their concern for Preparative Meeting status.

Dates: 1996 - 2006
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

Farmington Friends Meeting Records (including Farmington Monthly Meeting (Orthodox))

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-F335
Abstract

Records of Farmington Friends Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, the pre-Separation and Orthodox Farmington Monthly Meetings, 1803-. Includes: Minutes (men's & joint), 1803-1997, women's minutes, 1816-77, marriage intentions, 1803-27, births, deaths, etc., 1885-1906, marriages & removals, 1802-52, membership, 1907-70, Ministers and Elders minutes, 1838-1973 & 1990-1997, a Lyceum book, and The Farmington Friend, a newsletter, 1964-68 & 1984-95.

Dates: 1803 - 2007
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Long Island Quarterly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/L755
Identifier: QM-NY-L755
Abstract

Records of Long Island Quarterly Meeting, 1975-. Includes minutes 1975-1991.

Dates: 1975-2001
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Jericho Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-J451
Abstract

Records of Jericho Monthly Meeting, 1789-1953. Includes: men's, women's and joint minutes, 1789-1948; Vital records including births and deaths, 1811-88, membership 1796-1955, and marriages 1789-1972; Ministers and Elders records 1817-1953; Financial records 1817-1933; and a Weekend Conference register, 1911.

Dates: 1706 - 1999
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Montclair Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-M633
Abstract

Records of Montclair Monthly Meeting, 1925-2005. Includes vital records, 1939-1977, minutes, 1925-2005, ministry and counsel, 1928-1973, financial records, 1938-1977, miscellaneous papers, 1902-1989, and newsletters, 1981-89.

Dates: 1925-2005
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Bulls Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-B855
Abstract Records of Bulls Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Oswego Monthly Meeting and Oswego Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). Includes: minutes, men's and joint, 1826-2013; women's minutes, 1799-1887; vital records including marriages, 1799-1900, marriages & removals, 1809-1875, births & deaths, 1810-1933, marriages & removals, 1875-1917, births & deaths, 1927-1980, removals, 1979-1995; minutes of the meeting of Ministers and Elders 1883-1859 & 1890-1910; account books...
Dates: 1799-2013
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Amawalk Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-A493
Abstract

Records of Amawalk Monthly Meeting and its predecessor, Amawalk Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1795-ongoing. Includes: Minutes 1812-1991; Vital records 1798-1996; minutes and other records of Ministry & Counsel and its predecessor, Ministers & Elders, 1829-1914 & 1986-95; Treasurer's book 1910-1985; deeds & other property Records 1774-1903; extracts of the minutes of the monthly and quarterly meetings for Amawalk Preparative (1795) and Monthly (1806).

Dates: 1795-1996
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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