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1813 (cont.)
5 Dec "We make some labors with Elizabeth Bowser today,"
8 Dec A youth named Stephen Evans comes, "says he wants to be taken In and put to a trade."
25 Dec "The CF all open their minds to the Elders,"

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1814
1 Jan Derrick Vedder and Luther Wells are released from the Deaconshlp.
2 Jan "A considerable number of world's people attend meeting at our Meeting House today."
3 Jan Derrick Vedder comes here and the Elders of the CF labor with him "as he is under
great loss and they (the Elders) propose several ways to him to set out anew, to all of
which he refuses to unite but chuses his own way."
4 Jan "Abigail Wells comes here to stay a while on account of troubles in the Elder Brother
Seth's order."
7 Jan "Derrick Vedder after much labor and hard struggles has come down and confessed his
sins toBrother Aaron,, 11
8 Jan "Derrick Vedder now agrees to leave the Elder Brother Seth's order and come under the
Immediate counsel of the church (CF)."
9 Jan "Itis concluded for John Scott, Agnes Benedict and Jane Hodgsorfto go with Derrick
Vedder over to old Seth Vedder's to live."
13 Jan "Nathan Spier, Elder SisterBetsy and I ride over as faras Rosendale and visit the
little f a m i l y 0 "
17 Jan Old David Train and Albert Twiss move over to the little familyto live.
20 Jan Gideon Cole's^relatives corneto see him and tell him that allof the b u i l d i n g s of his
father, William Cole, have been burned and "therefore they want alms. "
24 Jan "Old SetWedder comes with a request to have Eleanor Veddef go- to the little family
to.live but as she is learning atalloress trade she goeth not0"
26 Jan Deacon David and Henry go Into Albany to pay our rent.
27 Jan A woman comes from below Poughkeepsie to be healed. "She is troubled with a kind
of maggrim or a continual motion of jerking and twitching. She says she has faith to
be healed. "
29 Jan A man named Ichabod Potter comes with his wife and fivechildren to have some of
the children taken and we decide to take two girls.
30 Jan "Daniel Twiss arrives here In a rage afterhis son Albert. Being treated with kindness,
he becomes more passive."
31 Jan Daniel starts forrwirrfcleaving
his son Albert.
12 Feb "Edward Southwlck of Troy comes requesting to have a privilege of acquaintance with
us and our faith and worship. "
13 Feb "We have precious giftsof God today, some thronged with the people of this w o r l d * "
.-Sunday
14 Feb Edward Southwick goes away.
20 Feb "Edward Southwick attends our meeting and behaves very disorderly, "
2 Mar From "the Genesee" a man comes with his daughter/ her husband and a number of small
children., "They say they want the gospel 0 We give them their breakfast and send
them to Calvin'so"
10 Mar "The family of Brackes from the Genesee moved into a little house on our south lot today.
22 Mar Go Into Albany to get a surgeon to cut off James Shay's leg,


""X 23 Mar
* 24 Miar
29 Mar
Two doctors
Abijah
Rent a
come to
goes to
room
see
Albany and
in Albany and
James 1leg and think It
brings home two
best
fur hats,
not to
one for
cut itoff 0
himself
James Shay is to stay there and have
and one for
his leg treated a
mea
David
M i l l e r and Morrell
Baker take turns staying with him.