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Village:Hancock, MA Source:hsvcensus:413Search: Full Last First
id 413 lastname Fairchild firstname Calvin M. sex m birth_date 1841c birth_place NY? date_admitted 1862.12.25 covenant_signed Hancock 1843-1844, 1850-1851, 1855, 1860-1863, 1865, 1869. shaker_residences Gardener, 1860 & 1865. Boys' caretaker, 1860, 1862. Elder, 1861. Gardener, 1865. health Foundling left near Hancock Chh Family dwelling 1843.07.25, in obituary, MPH.8000 p186+. Hancock overseers of the poor indentured him to the Shakers 1844.04.13, MPH.995. 1850 U.S. census, Hancock, MA, Joseph Patten family 121: age 9, birthplace unknown. Age 10, in Hancock school 1851, MPH.1003a. 1855 MA census, Hancock family 24 (Chh Family): age 14, born NY [actually unknown]. Named boys' caretaker 1860.03.31, NOC.TDM. 1860 U.S. census, Hancock, MA, Simon Mabee family 2215: age 19, gardener, born NY. Named 2d Elder 1861.03.18; back to boys' caretaker 1862.05.29, MPH.8000. Signed covenant 1862.12.25, NOC.13,602, p56. On 1863 conscription list, DeWint.1168. 1865 MA census, Hancock family 161: age 23, born MA, gardener. Described in 1869: 'a youth of singularly prepossessing appearance ... a fine intellectuality about his fair handsome face; his blue eye beamed with gentleness, and was not without a pleasant glimmer of half suppressed merriment;' was quoted, 'In the recompense, the wife is left out and ‘persecutions’ put in her stead. But perhaps you think that is only another word for the same thing!†Wergland, Visiting the Shakers, 1850-1899, p98-100. Age 27 at death, obituary, MPH.8000 pp. 178, 186-89. Birthplace & parents unknown, occupation teacher & gardener, died age 28 of consumption, Hancock MVR. occupation 1869.12.06 departure_apostasy Hancock notes Consumption, MVR. death_date MPH.8000 pp. 178, 186-89.