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:

Binghamton Community Friends Meeting Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-B491

Abstract

Records of Binghamton Community Friends Meeting, 1982-ongoing. Includes: minutes 1982-2009.

Dates: 1982-2009

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

Blooming Grove Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-B513

Abstract

Includes: Men's minutes, 1828-1846, 1846-1863, 1863-1871; Women's minutes, 1812-1821, 1822-1826; 1826-1843, 1843-1857, 1857-1871.

Dates: 1812-1871

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

Blooming Grove Preparative Meeting (Orthodox) Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-B515

Abstract

Records of Blooming Grove Preparative Meeting (Orthodox), 1812-1872. Includes men's minutes, 1828-36 and 1851-72, and women's minutes, 1845-1862. Records also include the minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting, 1812-1828.

Dates: 1812-1872

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

Albany Executive and Monthly Meetings (1840-1915) Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-A410

Abstract

Includes: Minutes (men's and joint), 1840-94 and 1894-1915; women's minutes, 1840-69; minutes of the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders, 1841-87 and 1887-94; register & scrapbook, 1840-1915; Deeds and Property Records 1898-1908; contained with the Register are records of births & deaths, marriages, removals, names of the members of Albany and New Scotland Preparative Meetings, and miscellaneous items tipped in.

Dates: 1840-1915

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

Boston Preparative Meeting Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/B615

Identifier: QM-NY-B615

Abstract

Includes: Men's minutes, 1813-1850 and 1850-1876; women's minutes, 1843-1867 and 1867-1887 (includes joint minutes)

Dates: 1813-1887

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

Mayfield Preparative Meeting Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-M397

Abstract

Records of Mayfield Preparative Meeting, 1804-1828. Includes: men's minutes, 1804-1813, and women's minutes, 1804-1828.

Dates: 1804-1828

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

Hudson Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) Records

Collection — Othertype SW/NY/H857

Identifier: QM-NY-H857

Abstract

Includes: Minutes, 1792-1871; treasurers book, 1816-1880.

Dates: 1792-1880

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

Mendon Preparative Meeting Records

Collection

Identifier: QM-NY-M457

Abstract

Records of Mendon Preparative Meeting, 1833-1914. Includes minutes men's and joint, 1833-1914, women's minutes, 1833-1869, Property dispute correspondence, 1955, and New York Supreme Court decisions, 1956-57.

Dates: 1833-1914

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