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id 992 lastname Rathbun firstname Reuben 2d sex m birth_date 1789.04.10 birth_place Hancock 1789, 1792, 1794-1797 date_admitted Elder 1792. covenant_signed 1797.00.00 shaker_residences Adm Hancock, donated span of horses & wagon, 1789.04.10, NOC.10,804. Elder, Hancock Chh Family, late 1792, 'Reuben was a Man of good Faccultyes of Mind; and had been a belever from the first opening of the gospel to us — and very Zealous — but not wise — the want of wisdom In his Labors had caused greate tribulation to the Eldrs and Expence to the brethren — Father James [said] that he would Sooner or Latter go to the world,' MPH.6140a p10b-12. In Hancock Chh Family 1794-1796, MPH.1788. Left with Elizabeth Deming 1797, MPH.8342. See also: Reuben Rathbone, Reasons Offered for Leaving the Shakers (Pittsfield, Mass.: Chester Smith, 1809), MPH.7657. Remembered as an apostate: Test.1816: 390-92.
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