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Village:Hancock, MA Source:hsvcensus:1392Search: Full Last First
id 1392 lastname Williams firstname Sylvia E. sex f birth_date 1/13/1800 birth_place Pittsfield, MA date_admitted 1821 covenant_signed Hancock 1819, 1821, 1829-1831, 1843, 1845-1846, 1848, 1850, 1854-1856, 1860, 1865, 1870, 1872, 1875. shaker_residences Invalid for 3 years after a paralytic stroke, MPH.8000 p188? health Deaconess, 1842-1872. occupation Born 1/13/1800, DeWint.1061 (Brewer index). Former res Pittsfield, MA? Age 19, Hancock Chh, 1819.09.00, OClWHi.III:A-17. Signed Hancock Chh Family covenant 1821.05.13, MPH.854. Hancock 1st Order 1829.08.30, OClWHi.III:B-42. Signed covenant 1830.12.25, NOC.10,345. Assigned place in meeting, 1st row, 3d from the world's people, Hancock Chh Family, 1831.11.20, MPH.1784. Signed Sacred Roll 1843.04.20, OClWHi.III:A-17. Appointed Office deaconess 1845.03.20, MPH.8341. Res Hancock Office 1846.09.25, OClWHi.V:B-36, p61. Deaconess asking New Lebanon how they get along without pork 1848.04.20, OClWHi.V:B-61. 'Henry Dewitt came over from Lebanon with some Pleasant Spinners one for Silva ....' 1850.06.05, DeWint.851. Office deaconess 1856.06.28, OClWHi.V:B-19. 1850 U.S. census, Hancock, MA, Joseph Patten family 121: age 46, born MA. Visited eastern societies 1854.08.00, MPH.8000 p113. 1855 MA census, Hancock, family 24, age 55, born MA. Office deaconess 1856.07.04, NOC 12,792, p111. 1860 U.S. census, Pittsfield, MA family 2206 (Hancock Office Family): age 60, deaconess, born MA. 1865 MA census, Hancock family 161: age 65, born MA. Probably 'Sister Silby' ('A pale, thin, elderly sister, with a very prim chin and very watchful dark eyes') in Rev. David Macrae, “A Day with the Shakers,†Americans at Home: Pen-and-Ink Sketches of American Men, Manners, and Institutions (1870). 1870 U.S. census, Pittsfield, MA, (Office) family 1526: age 70, keeping house, born MA. Left Office due to mental & physical disability, returned to Chh Family 1872.04.06, MPH.8000 p13. Had been 1st Office deaconess for 30 years before her stroke, MPH.8000 p188. Died of a stroke at age 74 in 1875, MPH.8000 p188. Born Pittsfield, daughter of William & Catherine Williams, died 1875.01.09 at West Pittsfield of old age, aged 74y 11m 27d, Pittsfield MVR. departure_apostasy 1875.01.09 notes Hancock death_date Stroke, MPH.8000. Old age, MVR. death_location MPH.8000 p188.
Village:Hancock, MA Source:whrsreel:016252Search: Full Last First