76.

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1863
1 Dec At WF, Orpha DeGroat moved out of Eldress Order to SF;
also Jerusha Truair (formerly of Groveland) moved to SF.
Almira Watkins of WF'Office put in Elder order & Permilla
moved from SF to WF.
2 Dec Elder Daniel goes to Waterford"to get some basket stuff
pounded at Bromley Kings forging shop."
2 Dec No snow yet so cattle still grazing in fields. Hudson
River still open so families "hastening off their produce
for market, as canned fruits, apple butter, catsup, etc."
4 Dec Giles putting up a partition at Office in lower s.e. room.
9 Dec Ministry return to NL.
25 Dec (NL) All of elders and deacons orders agree to allow use
of a "kind of gray cloth called 'steel mixed 1 for trousers."

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1864
2 Jan Elder Daniel planing basket stuff; ;Giles in tailor's shop
cutting trousers & coats.
4 Jan Letters telling that Canterbury entirely free of debt and
Enfield getting out of debt to the world.
6 Jan NL_ Eldress Sarah Van Dyke of East Family comes to Ministry
Shop; she is "extremely debilitated & severely prostrated,
is almost like an infant, judgment gone & reason tottering
' on its throne."
17 Jan (NL) Receive letter from South Union that Secretary Stanton
has written the Provost Marshall of their military district
to parole immediatgely any Shaker that may be drafted.
23 Jan (NL) "A youth about 18 years, named Angelo Lockwood, moves
from NF to Second Order; he is a bright, active gifted boy,
beloved by all."
27 Jan (NL) Lucius Southwick of Groveland going to Albany to see
Legislature about a bill granting him damages on a house
injured by the breakage of the canal at the Groveland mills.
3 Feb Ministry come to WV. Find "some improvement in the spiritual
condition of some individuals in NF and SF ." The WF condi-
tion, "socially & spiritually, is truly lamentably weak &
fruitless of prosperity, a great want of government & lack
of wisdom in the leading authorities."
13 Feb "Abraham Hendrickson has been laid up some weeks by a very
hard'cancerous sore on the back of his neck & head, & seems
fast passing away to a better land."
14 Feb (Sun) C. Miller & Daniel Sherman arrive home from "a long,
tedious seed route of 5 weeks."