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Village:Hancock, MA Source:hsvcensus:1301Search: Full Last First
id 1301 lastname VanValen firstname Martha C. sex f birth_date 1804.05.01 birth_place Fishkill, NY date_admitted 1834.04.00 covenant_signed 1834.03.01 shaker_residences Hancock 1833-1834, 1842-1844, 1846, 1849-1850, 1855, 1860, 1865, 1870, 1880-1881. health Girls' caretaker, 1846, 1849. Works in dairy, 1870. Keeping house, 1880. Dairy & housework, 1881. occupation Born Fishkill, NY 1804.05.01; adm Hancock 1833.04.00, Lamson.2010, p157. Signed covenant 1834.03.01, NOC.13,602, p47. Signed Sacred Roll 1843.04.20, OClWHi.III:A-17; see also Testimony in Philemon Stewart, A Holy Sacred & Divine Roll & Book (1843), p. 313-15. Instrument who delivered spirit message 1844.01.07, MPH.6299. Sister of John VanValen, inspired instrument c1844, Lamson.2010, p99-100, 118-119, 1842 testimony 155-157. Girls' caretaker, 1846.09.25, OClWHi.V:B-36, p61. Girls' caretaker, released 1849.10.04, DeWint.851. 1850 U.S. census, Hancock, MA, Joseph Patten family 121: age 46, born NY. Visited Watervliet, 1850.09.10; visited Tyringham, 1851.07.17, DeWint.851. 1855 MA census, Hancock family 24, age 51, born NY. 1860 U.S. census, Hancock, MA, Simon Mabee Chh family 2215: age 55, born NY. 1865 MA census, Hancock family 161: age 61, born NY state. 1870 U.S. census, Hancock, MA, family 96: age 66, works in dairy, born NY. 1880 U.S. census, Hancock, MA, family 100 (Phidelio Collins family): age 75, keeping house, born NY. Age 77 at death in 1881, MPH.5218. Born Fishkill, NY, daughter of Moses & Elizabeth Van Valen; occupation dairy & housework; died of apoplexy on Dec 1, 1881, age 80y 7m, Hancock MVR. departure_apostasy 1881.12.01 notes Hancock death_date Apoplexy, MVR. death_location MPH.5218. MPH.8000 p206.