VB-279 23.

11 May (cont./Hawkins, Elder Brother Joseph Hodgson, Jesse WeJ^Is, Elder Calvin
Wells, Issachar^Bates, DABuckingham and W i I IiamSeeley.

13 May "Two unclean members have been sent off from NF - C a r o l i n e Chapman
and Hannah Button.

20 May Elm tree planted between Mother Ann and Father William.

23 May "Soon after 3 p.m., nine 4~horse stages and two coaches drove up to
our Office containing, it was said, 108 females, being the preceptress,
teachers and pupils of the Troy Female Seminary, under the care of
Emma Willard. After walking around the village a while, they departed
for Troy."

30 May Three arrived from South Union..taking 22 days; one from Pleasant Hill
in 21 days, and Issachar Bates from Watervliet, Ohio, taking 19 days.

14 July New office barn raised, the biggest heavy timbers by pullies drawn
by oxen.
Judith R ich, b&Uher own request, released from care of little girls
and Maria^i I ler took her place.

11 Aug Timothy Clement "unwilling to bear his cross any longer" left the CF.

29 Aug "AllenEimons, proving himself a bad boy and not fit to abide with
the faithful, was this day sent to Troy to his mother."

10 Nov StepheraWelIs going withDaniel Hawkins to Union Village,OHio "to
assist The Society in regulating their temporal affairs."

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1856
13 Jan Family advised that Freegift is to go to(!Hio "to officiate as a leader
at Union Village and as a minister to Western Societies."

12 Feb "A tribe of 15 Bigelows" came to SF.

13 Mar (Sun) Two cold for public meeting but have good meeting at home--extra-
ordinary gifts of God have been in operation since about January 1,
especially among the young--much humiliation, repentance and weeping
with various external gifts, exercises and outward operations of the
Spirit."

14 Mar Fred Vicker to replace Freegift as Elder Brother, Chauncey Copley to
go into the Office with William Yearsley, Jesse^arwood to come from
NF and live with Francis Goodrich.

IT IS NOW INDICATED THAT FREEGIFT WELLS HAS BEEN KEEPIGN THIS
JOURNAL AND THE ABOVE WAS HIS LAST ENTRY.. He states he has lived
at the CF more than 25 years.

28 Mar BenjaminTrain to NF to take Jesse Harwood's place.

:^fc 29 Mar Aaron !A)M-&- died at NF.
^^ 10 April Farewell to Freegift.
Patience Chase died, 'sick 9 days. /U