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1873
18 Feb C. Miller, Galen Richmond, John Decker, carpenter Waterman
go to Albany about lumber for ':WF and SF barns.
21 Feb SF receiving a donation of corn from Enfield NH 2d Family
that was raised at Mt. Morris and will be shipped from there.
24 Feb Teams begin hauling timber from Albany for new barns.
29 Feb Giles finishes making 100 seed boxes.
4 Mar Ministry go to Groveland. CF to assume management of Gamel
farm, James Goodwin to move from WF to East Family.
Return to WV on llth.
12 Mar Ministry go to WF and SF "relative to the managers of summer
business." Conrad Smith, who had been the SF manager & left,
now wishes to return.
19 Mar Ministry return to Lebanon, Giles & sisters by railroad,
Elder Daniel with team.
22 Apr Albert Lomas writes to Ministry concerning Samuel Hurlburt
"who is in hospital at Albany & requests.: their immediate
attention." Elder Daniel goes to WV to see about it.
5 May (NL) Giles "making a paper sample for graveyard monument."
7 May NL George Wickersham goes to Albany about patterns for casting
graveyard monument.
13 May Consult with Elders Amos Stewart & Thomas Damon (of Hancock)
about pattern for cast iron grave monuments.
14 May Ministry come to WV .
15 May Giles visits Eld Albert Lomas at SF who is very sick &
reported dangerously so.
"No traces yet of the perpertrators of the burning of the
buildings."
16 May Letter from Eld Peter Long of Groveland, "soliciting the
declaration of trust of James Goodwin & Henry Cantrell as
Trustees at Groveland, as the Ministry arranged while last
at Groveland for their East Family to take the new or "Gamel"
farm with its burden of indebtedness, and the WF to mortgage
it to raise money to pay the last installment of payment in
it aside from raising the previous mortgage, which was on
it when it was purchased. They apply to the Mutual Trust
Co. of New York for a loan on the farm, by mortgage. The
company question, 1st, the official capacity of the appli-
cants, 2nd the authority of our Trustees to mortgage the
real estate of the society;- without the consent of all the
covenant members. On being informed that this was obtained
by the leders of the society, the Ministry, preparatory to
the application for a loan and in anticipation of such an
incident, they were then free to act or not."