30 Mar 1851 19 mKen, women & drivers of Legislature attend
meeting and eat dinner. (PAB)
28-29 May 1851 Raised the great barn. Loren Wicks in charge.
70 men worked on it.
23 Sep 1851 Two brethren attended meeting at Morrises with 15
men of town about a new road to the Island to have it go through
Cregier's land. "They all came here to dinner." (PAB)
24 Jan 1852 "Very heavy ox stolen from stable last night.
About 12 of brethren went in pursuit. Tracked to West Troy,"
then most returned. Company of riders in town had been notified
and they continued their search. About 4 pm two men came to CF
Office and said the beast had been found in East Troy. Three
brethren started out but got only to Plank Rd. (Loudon Rd.) where
they met Moses - a Believer in Lansingburg - driving him home.
"The poor creature was so weary and tender footed, it refused to
be driven any ^further and laid down beside the road. When
rested a littler they got him into a yard nearby for the night.
The next morning Maynard and Josiah brought him home."{VB-338}
2 Feb 1852 "A poor woman came here on foot through the snow to
obtain some medicine for her sick husband. On her arrival she
was cold, weary and both of her feet frozen. She was kindly
treated by those in the Office and taken home in a sleigh by
Frederick and David, our physician." (VB-338}
18 Mar 1852 C. Copley brought 5 children from Albany - 4 girls
and 1 boy. Father is Markwell, lately from England, lost
everything during the trip of 119 days. (VB-338)
27 Jul 1852 "willoughby Green absents himself from the
Society. He has been disunited in spirit for more than a year;
and now he leaves bodily. Elizabeth Ingham follows in the train
and is carried to Schenectady." (VB-338)
27 Jul 1852 Ex-Governor March and family had tea. (PAB)
2 Aug 1852 Judge (Amasa) Parker and family came, had dinner.
(PAB)
11 Aug 1852 "The elders, deacons and trustees of all the
families meet at the MHG to consider what was best to be done to
prevent the world's people from marring & dirtying our church or
MH. The spectators make such filthy work on the floor, seats,
etc. that we can no longer endure it. It was agreed to have
suitable persons appointed to regulate and control the world's
people so far as to cause greater order and decency among them.
Two persons are to be stationed, one at the inner and the other
at the outer doors, whose duty it should be to keep order and
regularity among them. These two are to be released every other
Sabbath from their duty by two others appointed to fill the
places." (VB-338)
24 Sep 1852 Charles Torrance, one of the youth, who had been
drawing broom corn seed from the Island with an ox team, while
going down Witbeck's hill, the team ran against the fence,
"pitched him overboard between the oxen and hurt him badly."
Witbeck picked him up, jrfput him in the wagon and drove the team
a^cross the Binnekill onto the Island where Jesse Harwood brought
him and his team home. The physician found that Charles' elbow
was dislocated, one of bones in forearm broken, and his knee
partly out of joint. (VB-338)
20 Aug 1852 Brought out from Albany nearly 1500 leaves of palm


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