QM/NY/MM. Constituent Monthly, Preparative, and Quarterly meetings

Record Group Term

Identifier: QM/NY/MM

Staff Only

_____ 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

Perry City Monthly Meeting Records (including Hector Monthly Meeting (Orthodox-Gurneyite))

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-P475

Abstract

Records of Perry City Monthly Meeting and its predecessor, Hector Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1847-1972. Includes: Minutes (men's, women's, joint), 1847-1955/1968-79/2005, vital records 1902-1972, Ministers and Elders, 1872-1895, financial records 1942-1954, records of the Ladies Aid Society, and newsletters.

Dates: 1847-2005

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

Old Chatham Monthly Meeting Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-O453

Scope and Contents

Records of Old Chatham Monthly Meeting, 1963-2012. Includes minutes 1963-1989 & 1996-2012, records of former members, 1963-1990, newsletters, 1990-1995, and records of space use at Powell House, 1984-88. Post-2004 records are digital; digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.

Dates: 1963-2012

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

Orchard Park Monthly Meeting Records (including East Hamburg, Hamburg (Hicksite), and Eden)

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-O751

Abstract

Records of Orchard Park Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, East Hamburg Executive and Monthly Meetings (Hicksite), Hamburg Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) , Hamburg Monthly Meeting, and Eden Monthly Meeting, 1751-ongoing. Includes: Minutes 1814-2002; Vital records 1751-1942, including births & deaths, 1759-1866 & 1751-1942, marriages & removals, 1822-99, and removals, 1819-92; Ministers & Elders minutes, 1821-1907; Financial records 1831-1958; Newsletter 1981-95.

Dates: 1814 - 2002

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