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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:

Salem Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S319
Abstract

Records of Salem Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-1829. Includes: minutes, 1828-1829.

Dates: 1828-1829
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Saratoga Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/S343
Identifier: QM-NY-S343
Abstract

Records of Saratoga Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-1855. Includes: Men's and women's minutes, 1828-1840 & 1828-1846; Ministers and Elders Records 1828-1855.

Dates: 1828-1855
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

Saratoga Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/S347
Identifier: QM-NY-S347
Abstract

Records of Saratoga Preparative Meeting, 1831-1869. Includes: Minutes, 1831-1867, and women's minutes, 1836-1867.

Dates: 1831-1867
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Collins Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-C639
Abstract

Records of Collins Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1828-1879. Includes: Minutes 1828-1879, women's minutes, 1857-1874, and financial Records 1845-1858.

Dates: 1828-1879
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections