VB-321 Reel 47 Wlvtl Church Family - DABuckingham page


1844 (contQ
3U Aug Some of the Bates children came from the Y/F to see little Orin who ^ as been S-IC^
more

than a week/ but he now is getting better.
3 Sept C. Miller to Schenectady to get stinkweed or thorn apple for making extract.
Andrew BroWfi, having heard of Alexander's death, came to see his other son.
James Remer came to see his sister Susan and the privilege was granted.
13 Sept Lorin Wicks is released from the mill and has gone into thebroom shop to work "or at
least that is where itIs expected he will for the present employ his time. "
Smith Taylor now takes charge of the mill with Luther Parks working for him.
16 Aept Farmers are sowing seed, gardeners gathering seed, Jesse & William work on frame for
woodhouse, Smith & Luther at mill, Ephralm & Charles with the boys and in the broom
corn business, C. Miller and Dorephus gathering herbs.
19 Sept DAB, George and some sisters went to River Farm and gathered about- 20 bushels of
butternuts.
23 Sept "Today Is kept as a day of purification, sweeping and cleansing in obedience to the
commandment of the Lord . "
24 Sept James Remer has been at the Office a number of times "asking another privilege among
the people ofGod but there was none forhim seeing he had rejected his former privilege.
29 Sept The mother of the Slater children came here today; was a young man who was not
related to them. The young man was not permitted to converse with the children in
consequence of former bad or Improper conduct and freedom with them, "
30 Sept Inquiries now seem to show that Ferguson's waterwheel is considered far superior to
Pierson's.
7 Oct DAB went to Lebanon with 10 barrels of winter apples. They understand that the NL
orchards did not bear well thisseason and the only apples they had were what they
purchased. So the Wvlt Society felt it was their duty and privilege to give a portion
of their stores.
13 Oct The whole Society except the infirm and the little children assembled at the Center
Square under the Tree of Mercy and Forbearance .
2 Nov Willoughby went beyond Troy a few miles after a ram, or at leastto exchange a
Southdown for a Bakewell .
19 Nov Stanton brought from the Town Supt , of Schools "a notice In writing of the division of
our district and the joining of itto the district adjacent to us. "
21 Nov . Lucy Brown died at NF. &ffty*-)
26 Nov School started. Willoughby Green teacher.
29 Nov Send an appeal to the County Supt. of Schools, Francis Dwight, for a continuation of
our District #14.
9 Dec Received an answer to our appeal, reinstating us toour former condition in a district
by hourselves. "This was and is a matter of great consolation to us forwhich we give
thanks where the same is due, even IntoHim who overruleth, all,"
10 Dec "For bad conduct and 111behavior, sin and passion, Sarah Jane Ogden is taken to her
mother In Albany" by C.. Copley, Moriah Treadway & Clarissa Vedder.
24 Dec Molly Youngs died at SF.
25 Dec Molly's funeral . Benjamin Youngs attended. , ft
It has been rather a sickly time in thisfamily: Abiathai^has been confined for a long
time and has just got out of the sickroom; Dean has been very sick and only just released
from the doctor's care; Prudence and Sarah Simons have been confined a long time and
are just able to get about; and now In doctor's apartments are Jonathan Slosson, Joseph
Preston and John Scott; also some of the little girls with fevers and chicken pox.