DABuckingham - 1866 ' page 16


23 Oct. Shirley sold their cotton factory for$40,000. Elder Grove is visitingdifferent Societies
-c : and returning borrowed money.

30 Oct. Drying house caught fire and totally burned. Fullof chicory rootat time.

23 Nov. Chauncey Miller went to Enfi eld, Conn, whose Church Family wants to sell their garden
seed business.

1867 18 Feb. Have put water from pond into wash house. Now al!teams and hired men are
drawing sand to raise a mound for a cistern (to be filled from thepond) between the wash house
and ox yard. Water will go from pond to cistern to barns, wash house, etc.

23 Feb. Elder Daniel and DAB went to head of pond and got "basket timber" - two small black ash
and one white ash.

12 March "Caty Hallenbeck, who has made up her mind to try'the world in preference to bearing
the ''Cross ofChrist and living a Shaker life,is conveyed to the house of one of the Gardners
near Albany, as a comfortable place as can be found for her. "

13 March Caty "returned this afternoon, having become sick of a worldly life, or finds thatthe
worldly elements are so very different from the element she has been brought up In among the
Believers, she could not abide itand came out from Albany by foot. .. .She seems very
penitent and another privilege is granted her. "
18 Apr Asa Sea ton died. "He was one" oB the aged and has been confined to his room
& dept. of the sick for the last 8 or 9 months. He was very patient in his
sickness, thankful for the least favor, resolute under suffering, and very
anxious to live that he might do more good."
21 Apr Joseph Pelham died. "He came to this place some few years ago and his main
calling here has been to bear public testimony of the gospel to the world
on the Sabbath. His faculty in this was very satisfying to both Believers
and the world."
16 May "Received a letter from Elder Rn. Ranolds of Union Village, giving an account
of the Believers and people in Sweden, at Elf Darlen & Rot."
28 May Albert Lomas is very sick. Caught a cold and inflamable rheumatism set in.
6 June Pointed Meeting House, then roof in morning, Hard rain in afternoon washed paint off roof
"pouring down in streams, as It were, of blood." Then wind blew and sprayed red paint all
over white sides "tillit was a sight to behold!" After the storm, the brethren and sisters
"unitedly turned in with pails, brushes, brooms and rags, with plenty of hard and soft soap,
and by hand working untilnearly dark" got most of itoff so it was thought that one painting
would cover.

22 June ^ilip~SmTth"moves"^from~herdsman to bbtanis"tr"6T"HeI:lrDep)t~butrwiii-stij:l----
care for poultry. Stanton Buckingham, the first farmer, will care for stock.

16 July Begin building cistern or reservoir.