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                                tears."
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<b>3  July</b>         (NL)  Richard    McNemar     left   for   Union    Village.
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<b>9   July</b>       Trustees     have   bought    the   rest   of  the   Great    Island    in
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                                Mohawk    (the   whole    is  62  acres)    .
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<b>10   July</b>      James   Remer    (a youth)     left    & Shubel    started     with   him
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                                for  NYCity.
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<b>21   July</b>   (Sun) Meeting,       "little     manifestations        & supernatural
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                                power.     Indeed    dthe   brethren's      strength     is  so   much   ex-
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                                hausted    in  the   duties    of   the  hay field    etc.   that    we  do
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                                not  feel    it  our   duty   to  spend    as  much   strength     in   the
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                               meetings     as   we  do  when    our  temporal     labors    are   less
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                                pressing. "
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<b>22   July</b>      Have   12  hired    men  at   the   River   Farm/    2  in  Stone    Shop,
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                                and  1  in  Garden     = 15.
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<b>23  July</b>       NF  has   4 acres    of  seed    onions.
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<b>27   July</b>      (NL)   Eldress    Ruth   spoke    to  "inspired      young   sisters"     to
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                                consider     the  hard   work    of  the   brethren     during    the   hay-
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                                ing  season    and   not   to  labor    for   gifts   that   would
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                                lengthen     the  meetings."
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<b>3  Aug</b>         NL  receive     news   that   Issachar     Bates    had  fallen    from    the
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                                roof   of- their    new  wagon    house    (about    24  ft)   "and   altho
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                                there   seemed    to  be   no  limbs    broken,    his   back   &  insides
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                                are  so   dangerously      hurt   that   they   have    scarce    any  hope
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                               of   his  life."
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                                Ellyett    Gibbs    had  gone    to  the  world.      Her   reason    for
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                                doing   so,   she   said,   is   "she   is  unwilling     to   live   so
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                                Strict   a  life    as  the   gospel    reqauires,      that   she  had
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                                Hurt   the  young    and   would   most    likely    do  them   more   hurt
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                                if  she   stayed.      She  wanted    the   liberty     of  the  world,
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                                etc."
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<b>5  Aug</b>         (NL)   Letter    from   Ohio   that    Freegift    was   confined     with
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                                rheumatism     and   Richar/d     McNemar    with    internal     hemorr-
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                                hoids   but   "he   had  made    a good    beginning     in  coming     down
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                                and  showed    marks    of  sincerity."
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<b>16  Aug</b>        Rebecca ^Carter      to  go   from   WF  to  SF   and   Errfeline  Clark    to
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                                replace    her.     (Eldress     Elizabeth     Youngs    had   resigned
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                               because     of  infirmity.)
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<b>18  Aug</b>    (Sun) "&zubah     Train   became     insane    and  made    so  much   distur-
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                               bance    that   on  Monday     they   "confined     her   in  the   2d   house
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                               garret."       "I  believe     this   is  her   first    turn   of  derange-
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                               ment    altho   it   is  prevalent in       her  father's      family."
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<b>23  Aug</b>        "This   morning     Catharine Vedder        &  Jennet    Angus    (our
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                               physicians)       came   very   near   losing    their    lives    by  poison
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                                in  the   following     manner.      They   were   directed     by   Eld   Bro
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                               to   make   a  syrup    of  scrofula     etc.   for   a  certain    person,
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                               and   having    filled    their    jug   &  having    a  little    left,
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                               They    thought    no  harm    in  taking    a  small    sip  of   what   was
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