AFM-289-8, Reel 46 NYS Library, Western Reserve Collection of Watervliet Shaker Papers

VoU 297 DAILY JOURNAL at WATERVLIET kept by Jethro Turner, Apr. 8, 1813 - Nov. 30, 1817


8 Apr Attend burial of Norton Wells. &*' '
13 Apr Freegift with Eleazar Demming and Henry Bennet is making a carding machine 0
14 Apr "Samuel Pease goes to Albany with a wagon to help move Elias Bunnel's household furni-
ture up to Benjamin Young's old house 0 "
16 Apr Elias Bunnel comes to-buy a cheese and we give him one as a present,,
25 Apr David Miller and John Scott go into the woods looking for the root of ladyshoe but they
find none.
11 May Deacon David and Gideon Kibbe set out westward after rattlesnakes,, Home on 14th with 7.
25 M\ay Deacon David and Morrell (Baker) go to Albany and buy a barrel of oilfor carding wool
and a barrel of salted shad for 2d Family. They also got 25 fresh shad,
28 May Gb to Troy with two wagons after salt, gurry, oil and lye stuff 0
1 June Sheep sheared, have 376 lbs Dsheared wool.
10 Jun Sisters are coloring the wool the drab color.
14 Jun Elder Brother Joseph Green and others go out through Schenectady and on return "visit
the family at old Seth Vedder's."
20 July Little Phebe Thomas taken into CF to llve,^/?*****^^^-***^^*^*-t- tM^xz^, AM. /PJ-ST)
27 July "Nathan Spier^and I get a white oak log to the mill andfcaw out some timber for bows to a
covered wagon."
31 July Brethren and some of the sisters much engaged in raking and getting in hay this afternoon.
Vvferake,up and get in 18 or 20 loads.
13 Aug "We understand that James Benedict and his wife have turned off from the watj of God. "
4 Sept Mother (Lucy Wright) gives word that there shall be no beast allowed to run loose or
feed in the dooryard D
6 Sept Have finished the covered wagon, made the box, put on the cover,,
24 Sep "Our boys begin to bring their evildeeds to light."
26 Sep "Our boys continue confessing their sins,"

1 Oct Lucas Witbeck and his wife take dinner with us 0 Benjamin Birdsall comes in his
regimental dress*
7 Oct Finish digging our potatoes - 740 bushels.
19 Oct Lambert Clement binds his son Harmanus to Freegift Wells today,, (sp 0Harmonious earlier)
23 Oct "A youth arrives here from Lebanon and we understand that he has fled from his father who
lives at Tyringham on account of his (the said youth) having faith and his father dealing
hard with him/1
26. Oct "The brethren generally go to work at the highway or to clear out a new road towards Troy.
Elias Bunnel returns from the Jersey and fetches his wife and his wife's brother a "
31 Oct "Nathan and I go to Elder Brother Seth's thisevening to give some counsel respecting
Elias BunneL"
3 Nov "Deadon David, Derrick Vedder, Henry Bennet and myself go and run out the line for a
new road to Troy 0 "
7 Nov Salathial Thomas comes and brings his children. We have concluded to have three of them,
viz. a boy and 2 girls live at 2d Family,
22 Nov Priscilla Fltd/departed this life.
29 Nov The brethren are working on the new road to Troy and "finish thenew bridge and crossway Q "
4 Dec Elizabeth Bowser moves to Calvin Wells' to live, Philadelphia Copley has gone to David
Train's to live.