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Village:Hancock, MA Source:hsvcensus:1387Search: Full Last First
id 1387 lastname Williams firstname Esther sex f birth_date 1778.01.17 birth_place MA or Canaan, NY date_admitted 1804 covenant_signed 1832 shaker_residences Hancock 1803, 1819, 1829, 1832, 1836, 1846, 1850, 1855, 1860, 1865, 1869. health Fell through loose floorboards & injured her back & legs c1805; miraculously healed c1825, Lamson.2010, p160. Confined to her room 64 years (obituary). 'Not expected to live long,' 1852.03.18, Hancock Ministry letter to Harvard Ministry, OClWHi.IV:A-20. occupation Res John Deming Family, Hancock, 1803, MPH.1314. Age 41, Hancock (John Patten's) Family Order, 1819.09.00, OClWHi.III:A-17. At Hancock 2d Family 1829.08.30, OClWHi.III:B-42. 2d Family, 1829.12.20, DeWint.826. Signed 2d Family covenant 1832.04.05, NOC.13,601. Hancock 2d Family, 1836.12.20, DeWint.826. 'Aunt Easter' Williams' healing miracle after 19 years crippled: David Lamson, Two Years' Experience among the Shakers (1848) p.160. But another source says she was confined to her room for 64 years, with meals carried in, obituary, Berkshire Eagle, 1869.10.01, copied into DeWint.826. Res 2d Family, 1846.06.01, DeWint.826. 1850 U.S. census, Pittsfield, MA family 1516 (Reuben Hawkins' Hancock 2d Family): age 72, born MA. 1855 MA census Pittsfield, family 445 (Hancock 2d family), age 79, born MA. 1860 U.S. census, Pittsfield, MA family 2205 (Joseph Patten's Hancock 2d Family): age 81, born MA. 1865 MA census Pittsfield family 1456 (Joseph Patten's Hancock 2d Family): age 87, born MA. Died Hancock 2d Family 1869.10.01, SDR.NEHGR p127. Age 91 at death, MPH.8000 p178. Born Canaan, NY, res Pittsfield, died of old age at 91y 9m, Pittsfield MVR [out of sequence.] departure_apostasy 1869.10.01 notes Hancock death_date Old age, MVR. 'A sufferer for many years.' MPH.8000. death_location MPH.8000 p178.
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