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 (Orthodox) Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W455

Identifier: QM-NY-W455

Abstract

Records of Westbury Monthly Meeting, 1828-1947. Includes minutes, 1828-1937, and vital records, 1828-1947. Pre-Separation and Hicksite records described in QM-NY-W453.

Dates: 1828-1947

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

Westbury Preparative Meeting (Pre-Separation and Hicksite) Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W457

Identifier: QM-NY-W457

Abstract

Records of Westbury Preparative Meeting, 1789-1959. Includes minutes, 1789-1959.

Dates: 1789-1959

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

Rochester Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/R639

Identifier: QM-NY-R639

Abstract

Records of Rochester Preparative Meeting, 1828-1900. Includes men's & joint minutes 1828-46 & 1860-1900; women's minutes 1828-73.

Dates: 1828-1900

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

Westbury Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W459

Identifier: QM-NY-W459

Abstract

Records of Westbury Preparative Meeting, 1853-1902. Includes minutes 1853-1902.

Dates: 1853-1902

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

Westchester Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W477

Identifier: QM-NY-W477

Abstract

Records of Westchester Preparative Meeting, 1828. Includes minutes, 1828.

Dates: 1828

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

Western Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/W487

Identifier: QM-NY-W487

Abstract

Records of Western Preparative Meeting, 1813-67. Includes minutes, 1813-67.

Dates: 1813-1867

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

Westmoreland, Bridgewater, and New Hartford Preparative Meetings (Orthodox) Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-W529

Abstract

Minutes of Bridgewater Preparative Meeting, 1828-38; minutes of New Hartford Preparative Meeting 1828-65; and minutes of Westmoreland Preparative Meeting 1826-1828 and 1860-92;

Dates: 1828-1870

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