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about three tiers of seats besides the rising ones
provided for them."
28 Aug "Our good sister^'Anna Cole, being 81 years of age this
day, made us a visit at our workshop. She looks as
Straight & trim as some girls are at 16 years of age."
^Clarissa Vedder was brought a pair of large black dung-
hill fowls as a present from the brethren at Tyringham.
29 Aug The Ministry and elder sisters with with Stanton & C.
Copley "to the new farmjd" down near Osborns & from
thence to the River Farm & to the Island where we ate
dinner in their new house which is neat & commodious."
1 Sept (Sun) "A large number of spectators attended public meet-
ing today & Rebecca Jackson, a colored sister, ad-
dressed them in a very feeling manner. I do no know as
I ever heard the spectators lectured in a more suitable
& feeling manner by any in my life. Every sentence &
Word seemed to come with weight & power & breathed
Faith, love & good will to the children of men. She
set forth the order of deity & proved by scripture that
the female has her lot & office therein as really as
The male. She also showed the propriety of Christ's
making his second appearance in the female in order to
complete the work of redemption.,."
24 Sept Ezekiel Copley & Joseph LaFume took 4 bushels of
peaches from the NF to Lebanon Ministry.
8 Oct (NL) Brethren returned from the Supreme Court in Hudson
with the news that Judge Parker had pronounced their
indentures good and that the Pillow boys were unlaw-
fully taken.
13 Oct (Sun) "Pretty large audience at public meeting addressed
by BSYoungs. "The spectators gave good attention to
What was spoken & Elder Issachar thanked them for their
good behavior. Howeer, there were several companies of
the worldlings who were at the same time rambling the
fields & pilfering our chenuts & shooting the harmless
birds & squirrels ! But this practice is very common
here on the holy Sabbath."
18 Oct Rufus went to the SF to see Rebecca Jackson "and to
grant her request which was for her & her little
Rebecca to visit Philadelphia among her followers."
19 Oct Rufus finished a pair of "thin butternut serge trousers
for Brother Amos, made of material given by the CF
deaconesses.
24 Oct Went to the SF to see uAbiel Hathaway "& Mary his woman"
& 3 young Believer women who came with them from Vt .
31 Oct Simon Atherton came from Harvard for garden seeds.
19 Nov Solomon Gale & Samuel Rose of NF took Ministry 9 bbls .