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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:

Hector Monthly Meetings (Orthodox and Conservative) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-H453
Abstract

Records of the Conservative (Wilburite) branch of Hector Monthly Meeting and its predecessor, the pre-schism Orthodox Meeting, including the minutes of both the Otisites and Kingites. Includes: Minutes (men's, women's, and joint), 1830-1950, registers of membership, 1756-1965, the minutes of the Meeting of Ministers & Elders, 1830-1863, Library record, 1860, Publishing Proposal 1824, and Correspondence 1828 and 1923.

Dates: 1756-1965
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Hector Preparative Meeting (Otisite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/H457
Identifier: QM-NY-H457
Abstract

Records of the Otisite branch of Hector Preparative Meeting. Includes: Minutes, 1859-1879.

Dates: 1859-1879
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Hector Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/H455
Identifier: QM-NY-H455
Abstract

Records of Hector Preparative Meeting (Orthodox). Includes: Minutes, 1870-1886, and women's minutes, 1847-1878.

Dates: 1847-1886
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Henrietta Preparative Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/H477
Identifier: QM-NY-H477
Abstract

Records of Henrietta Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its pre-Separation predecessor, 1825-1848. Includes: Men's minutes, 1825-48, and women's minutes, 1828-1848.

Dates: 1825-1848
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Easton Preparative Meeting Records (including Saratoga Preparative and North Easton Preparative)

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-E377
Abstract

Records of Easton Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) and its predecessors, Saratoga 1779-1896, and North Easton, 1896. Includes: men's and women's minutes, 1779-1896.

Dates: 1779-1896
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Elba Friends and Elba Preparative Meeting (Pre-Separation and Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-E459
Abstract

Records of Elba Friends Annual Business Meeting and its predecessor, Elba Preparative Meeting, 1821-1916. Includes: Minutes 1821-1916.

Dates: 1821-1916
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Elba Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-E453
Abstract

Records of Elba Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1837-1921. Includes: Minutes, 1837-1868 & 1890-1921, marriage intentions, 1837-1850, membership, ca. 1885-ca. 1903, register, 1907-1913, and minutes of Ministry and Oversight, 1911-1915.

Dates: 1837-1921
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Junius Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/NY/J853
Identifier: QM-NY-J853
Abstract

Records of Junius Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1863 : Galen, N.Y.). Includes minutes, 1815-34 & 1849-63, women's minutes, 1844-63, and membership, 1734-1866.

Dates: 1734-1866
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Lagrange and Beekman Preparative Meetings (Orthodox) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-L357
Abstract

Records of Lagrange Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) and its predecessor, Beekman Preparative Meeting, 1825-1902. Includes: Men's & women's minutes, 1828-1902.

Dates: 1825-1902
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Laurens and Butternuts Monthly Meetings (Hicksite) Records

 Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-L373
Abstract

Includes minutes of the men's meeting for business, 1828-1855.

Dates: 1828-1855
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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