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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.
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