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1866
23 July Giles engaged about some bees at Henry Lansing's, west
of NF.
24 July Elder Daniel bottoming chairs, Giles busy about bees.
2 Aug Elizabeth Seely died.
3 Aug Elder Daniel has bottomed 24 chairs for NF this week and
brings home 24 from SF to do.
4 Aug Chauncey Miller returns home from Kentucky where he was
looking at 25,000 acres of Land in Magoffin Cy. on Licking
River for 40 an acre.
8 Aug Jesse Harwood making partition in s.e. corner of Stone Shop
cellar for a place to store bees in winter.
16 Aug Ministry return to Lebanon.
5 Sept Ministry go to Groveland. "Find the people in good health
and business generally; spiritually they have much tribu-
lation continually with false brethren."
6 Sept A man from Mt. Morris taking photographs of the frame of
CF new barn, 200 ft. x 45 ft.
7 Sept (Grove) Horace Holloway goes to the world, is willfully
insane."
Giles spends time in the families showing sisters how to
cut brethren's clothes. (Eld Polly Ann Smith, Eld. Lydia)
12 Sept Ministry brethren go with the three Elder Brethren to see
two farms in Mt. Morris with a view of purchasing one or
both of them.
20 Sept Ministry come to WV on way home from Groveland.
3 Oct Ministry returns to Lebanon.
25 Oct Elder Daniel comes with Grove Blanchard of Shirley and get
WV to forgive $500 of the debt Shirley owes them,in con-
nection with their cotton factory.
12 Nov (NL) Letter from Pleasant Hill tells of a group in Sweden
of about 50 who have gathered & are trying Shaker Christ-
ianity as a result of correspondence with two Pleasant
Hill brethren, Andrew Bloomberg & Lars Ericson. They ask
for help and it is decided for Bro Andrew to go to Sweden
this month & aid them, possibly to come to America.
21 Nov Ministry come to WV.
23 Nov Giles & Nehemiah bring in 28 swarms of bees and put in
Stone Shop cellar.
29 Nov "It is decided that elders & deacons should attend school
meetings, if possible, and that the decisions of school
meetings should be valid, to all intents & purposes, if