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:

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

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

Schenectady Monthly Meeting Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-S365

Abstract

Records of Schenectady Monthly Meeting from 1944. Includes minutes 1944-2002 (with gaps), State of Society reports (1965-1966) and Treasurer's reports (2000-2016), some statistical membership information, and unprocessed papers from 1964-1999.

Dates: 1944-2002

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

Scipio 4-Months and Monthly Meetings (Conservative-Primitive) Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NYPR-S385

Abstract

Records of the Conservative Wilburite Scipio 4-Months Meeting and its predecessor Scipio Monthly Meeting. Includes the minutes of the Otisites and Kingites. Includes minutes (men's, women's and joint) 1847-1955; vital records 1845-1954; and minutes of the meeting of Ministers' and Elders', 1923-51.

Dates: 1845-1955

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

Riverside Friends Meeting Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-R575

Abstract

Records of Riverside Friends Meeting, 1930-63. Includes minutes, 1930-61, and a guest book, 1957-63.

Dates: 1930-1963

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

Scipio Executive and Monthly Meetings (Pre-Separation and Hicksite) Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-S383

Abstract

Records of Scipio Executive Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) and its predecessor Scipio Monthly Meeting of Friends. Includes minutes 1827-1924, vital records 1775-1924, and miscellaneous 1824-1917.

Dates: 1775-1924

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