VB-279, reel 44 5.
1815
8 Feb James */
Chapman, because of difficulties with Eunice his wife, took
his 3 children and left for Enfield, NH.
29 Apr Brethren helped 2d Family raise a new brethren's shop, 41 x 26'.
16 May Zeviah Spier" re I eased from Eldress lot at NF; Elizabeth Goodrich
took it.
/ 8 Aug With Lebanon, sent $400 to Petersburg^ Va. because of a fire there.
26 Aug Stephen Wells summoned to Albany. Had taken in two children of
:- widow Kingsbury. because she pled poverty and inability to take care
of them. Now, "through the influence of prejudice, occasioned by
lying, insinuations of the women who was an artful young widow,
these dignified judges decided in her favor and ordered the chil-
dren to be delivered toper on the pretense that their indentures
were illegal. Wells appealed.
\j 28 Aug A mob came to get Stephen and the two children but could not find
them.
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7 Sept Eunice Esther Bennet came from Lebanon to help in Office.
18 Sept Patty (now Lucy) Clark and Anna Clark went to Lebanon CF.
/ 19 Oct Kingsbury case came up in Court of Common Pleas; 3 of 5 judges against
Shakers. Judgment appealed.
(1816, 18 Jan. Kingsbury case decided FOR Shakers.)
23 Oct Rufus Bishop, C a l v i n
Green and Daniel Hawkins went to NYC to see
^ NY Attorney General Martin Van Buren about military service & fines.
Told to present case to Legislature.
v31 Oct Went tq'Albany and conferred with Lt.Gov. John Taylor..
V 20 Nov Elder Brother Jethro Turner and Seth"Y. Wells went to Lebanon to
help with petition to Legislature.
1816
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3 Jan MorrelI Baker, Calvin Green and Seth Y. Wells went to Albany to see
Gov. Tompkins and Lt. Gov. Taylor about prsenting memorial/petition
to LegisIature.
24 Jan Horse shed south of Meeting House moved easterly to make room for
Office to be moved.
7 Feb Began to move Office to make room for new dwelling house. Used
tackles, moved to south of Meeting House, facing west.
13 Feb Moved Office barn (which had been north of Office) to south end
of Meeting House horse shed and SE of Office.
14 Feb Scale house of Office moved south of Office.
/ 19 Feb Memorial taken to Albany.