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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:

Shelter Island Executive Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S531
Abstract

Minutes of Shelter Island Executive Meeting, 1980-1999, including minutes (1980-1997).

Dates: 1980 - 1999

Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting (1954- ) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S555
Abstract

Records of Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting (1954- ), 1937-1999. Includes minutes, 1937-1997 (with gaps), newsletters through 1999 (with gaps), and some member-related files.

Dates: 1937 - 1999

Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting (1672-1927) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S553
Abstract

Records of the Monthly Meeting of Friends held at Shrewsbury, 1650-1920. Includes men's minutes, 1732-1920, women's minutes, 1680-1891, vital records, 1650-1914, and other miscellaneous records.

Dates: 1650-1920

Shrewsbury and Plainfield Half-Yearly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S573
Abstract

Records of Shrewsbury and Plainfield Half-Yearly Meeting, 1705-2013 (known as Shrewbury and Plainfield Quarterly Meeting until 1891). Includes men's, women's, and joint minutes 1705-1972/1991-2013; Worship & Ministry minutes 1799-2013; and miscellaneous.

Dates: 1705-2013

Sing-Sing Worship Group Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S387
Abstract

Records of Sing Sing Worship Group. Includes newsletters, 1989-.

Dates: 1989-

Rochester Executive and Monthly Meetings (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-R633
Abstract

Records of Rochester Executive Meeting, 1825-1956. Includes men's, women's and joint minutes 1825-1916; vital records 1769-1915; Ministers' and Elders' minutes 1862-1913; and financial and property records, 1936-1956.

Dates: 1769-1916

Skaneateles Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S599
Abstract

Records of Skaneateles Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox), 1828-1922. Includes minutes, 1828-1902, and a treasurer's book, 1898-1922.

Dates: 1828-1922

Skaneateles Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/S597
Identifier: QM-NY-S597
Abstract

Records of Skaneateles Preparative Meeting (Hicksite & pre-Separation), 1821-90. Includes men's minutes, 1821-90.

Dates: 1821-1890

Smith's Clove Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S627
Abstract

Records of Smith's Clove Preparative Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1803-1918. Includes men's, women's, and joint minutes, 1803-1918, deeds, 1800-1801, and miscellaneous records.

Dates: 1801-1918

Smyrna Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-S631
Abstract

Records of Smyrna Monthly Meeting, 1836-1965. Includes minutes, 1836-1965, and vital records 1864-1954.

Dates: 1836-1967