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West Family sisters, along with a couple of sisters from the South Family, went to the
North Family to clean the buildings and get them in readiness, and the Ministry Sisters came from
New Lebanon to help. On October 30th, the Ministry fumigated the North Family with brimstone,
and on the next day the first Groveland people arrived, but were temporarily housed at the South
and West Families. (Please note that in allthese happenings, members of the Church Family, with
the exception of Elder Josiah Barker, are never involved.)

On November llth, Elder Isaac with three teams moved another carload of things from
the station at Niskayuna - this included potatoes and a kitchen range, and on November 15th, four
more carloads arrived.

On November 16th, Elder Alexander Work arrived in Albany with the main group of
Groveland people. Elder Isaac hired a hack to bring out the aged sisters - Sophronia Dole (77),
Susan Love (78), and Jerusha Truair (77) and Lavinia Dutcher (only 62, but always described as
being frail. (Of course, she survived to move to the South Family in 1919 when the North Family
closed for good, and died in 1923 at the age of 93.) Isaac brought Elder Alexander and two other
men in his wagon, and Elder Ozias Bogart of the South Family brought three brothers.

In November more Groveland horses and cows arrived and Elder Alexander went back
to Groveland to gather up the rest of his flock. On the 26th, Ella Winship, Jennie Wells, Hamilton
DeGraw, By ron Coburn and five others arrived. One more carload of furniture arrived in December
and then Elder Alexander came back to stay. A total of 29 people made the move, 11 over 70 years
of age, and it took just under three months.

The North and West Families continued to work together. The North Family, for in-
stance, went every two weeks on Monday to the We$t Family for the next year to do their laundry,
until finally in late November 1893 their new washhouse was finished. They also helped each other
in canning beans and tomatoes, had Sunday meetings together, and Elder Isaac was always there for
backup in any critical decisions or happenings.

Bert Willey became the hired foreman of the North Family in 1897, a job he held for the
next seven years. During this time his three oldest children were born -- Lou, now Mrs. Arthur
Hillard; Frank, a life member of Shaker Heritage; and Edward, now deceased.

By the 1905 State Census, there are only 16 recorded as living at the North Family, with
the families of Edwin and Raymond Male listed as tenantfarmers. By 1910 there are only 10 Shakers
with Ella Winship the head, Elder Alexander having died in 1909, and Josiah Barker is now serving
as elder for both the Church and North Families. Living with the North Family is the widow Eveline
Reno and her two children, Marion and Gertrude, as well as five other girls, six hired men, and the
tenant family of George Woods. An account book kept by Elder Josiah for the North Family, shows
their receipts for the year 1910 to have been $5,378, largely for milk sold, but also cows, calves,
butter, eggs and garden produce. Expenses for that year totaled $5,352, so they had a small profit
of $26. By 1913, their receipts totaled only $3,907 while their expenses amounted to $4,685, leaving
a deficit of$778.

In the meantime the West Family had been steadily decreasing in members also and was
kept going only because of Elder Isaac and Eldress Rachel McDonald. The 1905 Census shows a
number of adults and children there but few were actually Shakers. By 1910 there were only three
Shakers - Elder Isaac, Eldress Rachel and Harriet Jones0 Rachel died in 1913, Elder Isaac in March