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15 Apr 1836 Betty Lane died at WF. jJl 5/

2 May John Jacobs and family from Herkimer at SF. "How long he will stay
is yet to be seen."

11 June Gov. ' W i l l i a m
Marcy visited.
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25 July New dwelI ing n%use raised at NF, 41' x 55', 3 stories above basement.
About 100 brethren at raising.

26 Aug Sylvester Grahamfv is ited and lectured on Dietetics.

5 Nov BS Youngs and James'Fearney arrived from Kentucky and Ohio, Benj .
to live at CF nad James at SF.

4 Dec Deacon Peter^Dodge died, sick 4 days, 79 years old.

6 Dec TooklinFreeIove (11 yrs) andRuth (5) Whipple.

22 Dec Deacons bought about 40 acres of the Big Island in the Mohawk from
Derick C.Groot for $5000. "A high price but good land."

29 Dec Elder Jeremiah Tallcott and Jaseph Pelham here from Sodus. They
have contracted to sell the Sodus place for $100/acreJ1390 acres or
$139,000. Also contracted to buy at Groveland 1670 acres at $50/acre
or $91,850.
Sisters have made 1608 bonnets this year.

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1837

2 Jan Avalanche at Troy,b elow the lower ferry, buried 3 houses, a barn &
stables and a brick kiln, killing 8 people.

7 Jan AbrahamVan Vechten, the Believers lawyer for 40 years, died suddenly.

11 Jan Beulahowns died.
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14 Jan Took little girl, Mary Ann Blake, now called Rhoda. Born Ticonderoga
21 Jan 1831 .

18 Mar Theo. Bates Jr. boundpis sonTheo to Sylvester Prentiss, daughter Mary
Ann to Caroline Downs, and son William to Stanton Buckingham, and son
Osee toWi I lard Al I en .

26 Apr "Joshua B. Stone having dishonored his profession of faith and
disgraced his character before the world, and being unwilling to
humble himself and remove his stumbling out of the way, has chosen
to take the course of the world like old Esau and sell his birthright
for a mere mess of pottage and so has gone off."

8 May Eliza \v Ask )
replcesjAnn/^ Bowser at SF.

20 May Tina Seaton returned from Sodus and brought with her Ellyette Gibbs
who will live at WF with Tina.

21 May Benjamin Wells left WF and took with him Hannah Earl and went to
Nfskayuna and were married. He is 36 and she 18 -- "apair of fools."