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Village:Hancock, MA Source:hsvcensus:330Search: Full Last First
id 330 lastname Deming firstname John Jr. sex m birth_date 1775.04.13 birth_place 1790c date_admitted 1814 covenant_signed Hancock c1790, 1794-1796, 1803, 1813-1814, 1819, 1821 shaker_residences Ill during epidemic, 1813.04.00. health 1821.08.29 occupation Son of Sarah Sr. & John Sr, believed 1780s, adm with family c1790, DeWint.821, p132. Boy at Hancock Chh Family 1794-1796, MPH.1788. Hancock 1st Family 1803, MPH.1314. Ill, brought very low & yet feeble, Wm Deming letter to beloved sister Hortence, 1813.04.13, OClWHi.IV:A-19. Signed Chh Family covenant 2d (Elder?) 1814.12.02, MPH.854. 2d Elder, age 44, Hancock Chh, 1819.09.00, OClWHi.III:A-17. 'John Deming has gone off to the world and taken with him Minerva Seaton!! [John] ran against the gift that was for him with respect to the [Shenango?] Believers, as he wished to have a society there, and so be their elder, but his elders thot not … so he got unreconciled, lost his union, and then fell into disorderly union with that woman. … N.B. The first night after John went away, Grove Wright and William Deming went to see him. He still lamented his awful condition … They told him that they really tho’t him too much of a man to be swallowed up and carried away with his affections to a young woman. He told them that his manhood was all gone, there was no manhood there, he was undone forever!' 1821.08.29, DLCms.42.
Village:Hancock, MA Source:hsvcensus:331Search: Full Last First
id 331 lastname Deming firstname John Sr. sex m birth_date 1743.04.19 birth_place 1780c date_admitted 1814 covenant_signed Hancock 1789, 1791-1792, 1795, 1803, 1807, 1812, 1814, 1819, 1829. shaker_residences Tanner or shoemaker? 1792. Elder 1803. health From Sandisfield, MA? Husband of Sarah & father of 7, DeWint.821, p132. Identified as a religious dissenter & Shaker in Pittsfield, MA, 1789.11.01; owed £3 62s 1d minister's tax 1795.12.14, Pittsfield Original Papers, XVII.A-17 & B-2, MPB. Donated upper leather, sole leather, 10 sheep, a cow, 2 heifers. etc worth more than £70 1791-92, NOC.10,804. 1st Elder in 'Eldr John's Family,' 1803, born 1743.04.19, MPH.1314. Perhaps the John Deming who conveyed Pittsfield land to the Shakers in 1807, MPH.4210. Testimonies: c1810-1812, NOC.13,363; 1812, OClWRHi.VI:B-40; Test.1816. Signed Chh Family covenant 1814.12.02, MPH.854. Age 77, Hancock Chh, 1819.09.00, OClWHi.III:A-17. Died 1829.01.05, age 86, MPH.8000 p164. occupation 1829.01.05 departure_apostasy Hancock notes MPH.8000 p164. SDR.NEHGR p124.
Village:New Lebanon, NY Source:sni_work:654Search: Full Last First