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Village:Hancock, MA Source:hsvcensus:891Search: Full Last First
id 891 lastname Oakes firstname Elizabeth Y. sex f birth_date 1830.02.25 birth_place Hancock 1830, 1836, 1838-1839 date_admitted 1839.10.23 covenant_signed Came to Hancock 2d Family to live 1830.01.09, DeWint.826. In 'younger class,' Hancock 2d Family, 1836.12.20, DeWint.826. Hancock 2d Family instrument, 1838, OClWHi.VIII:B-19. Visions: 'Elizabeth Oaks [at Hancock] has seen considerable. Elizabeth (I think) saw at one time a meeting of a great number arranged in circles according to their ages – Garret L was in one,' Isaac N. Youngs, Sketches of Visions, 1838, p11-12, OClWHi.VIII:B-113. Went to New Lebanon to be doctored, 2/28/1839, DeWint.834 (Brewer index). Went to William Wheeler's 1839.10.23, DeWint.826. 'Shocking apostacy!' 4 men & 6 women left from the 2d Family & 4 0r 5 from another family; 'They were chiefly between 15 & 22 years - & some of them were small children. Some that had been visionists went, Elizabeth Oaks, for one. It seems that the sad root of evil has been growing among them,' 1839.10.30, I.N. Youngs, Private Journal, NOC.10,509.