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1872
12 Apr , "Kdward Powers is quite crazy; there is need of confining
/ him."

13 Apr Only 13 swarms out of 60 survived the winter.
16 Apr Ministry go to SF to see Ozias Bogart "and arrange with
him concerning moving to SF and letting the farm & care of
uncle & aunt to a relative for the season. "
19 Apr C. Miller receives a letter from his lawyer in Kentucky
"relative to the sale of wild lands in vicinity of the
34,000 acre Shaker tract there; says some have sold for $10
an acre, not as good as the Shakers lands, "
22 Apr C. Copley to Ministry Shop "pleading a release."
26 Apr Giles goes^ to Albany f-w? "a set of teeth." He is spending
time putting a ceiling in his bee house to make it warmer .
Elder Daniel is ploughing with the Ministry team .
28 Apr (Sun) Issachar Bates released as Elder, succeeded by
and Galen Richmond to live with him; Lovina Salsbury out
as Eldress , Harriet Bullard in, and Rosetta (Hendrickson)
to live with her.
4 May Elder Austin (DAB) and Elder Daniel are "putting up staging
poles for painting Ministry Shop."
6 May A group from WV and Lebanon go to Philadelphia "to minister
to some colored Believers there, the little scattered flock
of Rebecca Jackson, an able colored woman who lived some
years at WV but went back to Philadelphia to gather more
of her people. Eldress Paulina Bates & Katy Ferguson from
WV, Samuel Hurlburt & Anna Dodgson from Leb CF."
9 May Arrange for Sylvester Prentiss of NF to move to CF.
C. Miller to go to NF & repair hired men's house.
13 May Paint Ministry Shop 3d time. Have also pointed it and
repaired chimneys .
15 May Ministry return to Lebanon, except Giles goes to Philadelphia
to attend a meeting of Spiritualists. Starts home on 21st,
home on 23d.
17 June (NL) Albert Lomas goes to see Ministry about "some matter
Elder FWE (Evans) has written for "The Shaker" and we con-
clude not to insert it .
I Edward Powers found dead in Mohawk near Cohoes; he became
/ insane and wandered away from home.
27 June Ministry come to WV,
James Chapmen of SF starved himself to death; a kind of
, insanity, apparently from a guilty conscience . " He appeaRED
i desperate at times . "