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APPENDIX C


Membership of the Society*

In the year 1774 9
1800 1000
1828 5400
1843 6000
1874 2415
1902 1000
1931 200
1974 14


Families

Watervliet or Niskayuna founded 1776
New Lebanon, N. Y. 1779
(Became central home of Believers in 1787)
Hancock, Mass, 1790
Harvard, Mass, 1791
East Canterbury, N. H. 1792
Enfield, Conn. 1792
Tyringham, Mass. 1792
Alfred, Maine 1793
Enfield, N. H. 1793
Shirley, Mass. 1793
New Gloucester, Maine 1794
(later called Sabbathday Lake)
Union Village, Ohio 1805
c, agl6 r~ek' ,0hi0!
Straight Creek, O.) 18<>5 but moved
to another community in 1809
Pleasant Hill, Ky. Betw. 1805-9
South Union, Ky. betw. 1807-9
Watervliet, Ohio 1810
West Union, Ihd. 1815
(moved to another comm. in 1827)
North Union, Ohio 1822
(now Shaker Heights)
Whitewater, Ohio 1824
Sodus Point, R Y. 1826
(moved to Groveland, N. Y. in 1836)
There were also small groups later in Narcoossee, Fla. , White
Oak, Ga. , and one of 20 colored persons in Philadelphia, Pa. )
* Andrews, "Community Industries of the Shakers11, NYS Museum Handbook
#15, c. 1933, p. 263