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On the 30th of October, a Mr. Spring, a wealthy man from Boston, came to select old
furniturefrom both the North and South families, paying the North Family $600 and the South Family
$300* In November, Isaac and Fred Willey, Church Family foreman, took a truckload and two hired
men took two horse-team loads of furniture to Troy to fill a railroad car going toBoston, from where it
was to be shipped down South, Anna claims.

On the 5th of November, Byrort put up stovesin the Sisters1 Shop and the next day brought
down sixteen of his beehives. On the 21st of November, North and Church Family hired hands drew
splitfirewood over from the North Family, and the next day the South Family sold three old horses
and Hugo shot his own horse, 24 years old, to make room for the North Family horses.

6 Decemberth, Byron and Ella brought a wagonload of mattresses, and December 8th Byron
brought a wagonload of chairs. From December 10th through the' 12th, six or seven more loads of
furniture or, as Anna Goepper called it, "North Family's plunder", was moved, and finally on
13 Decemberth the people moved. Ithad taken almost four months for eight people. Hugo went over
with the auto to bring Lavinia Dutcher, Isabelle White and Hattie Coburn. Jennie, Ella, Byron and
Marguerite Putman, a little girl, came in the spring wagon. They all ate in theirnew home except
Hamilton and Byron who ate with the South Family. It was determined the next day that these North
Family people would take their breakfasts and suppers in their own building that winter, and noon
dinner with the South Family. Two dayslater, Anna Goepper notes making 14 loaves of bread and
11 huckleberry pies, and the next day 11 apple pies.

So, in the 1925 Census, we see the occupants of the North Family buildings are those who
purchased them from the Shakers - the Bol family. There are Leonard Senior and his sons, Leonard
Junior, Cornelius and John and their young families, together with two tenant families. In 1 26 the
barns all burned in a huge fire that could be seen for miles. The bell or dwelling house alone remained
standing. The Bols moved then to the North Farm of the North Family, where State Equipment is now
located. (John Bol was one of the leading promoters of the Albany Airport.)

The Shaker property was then sold to a German man who laid out a golf course and, in
turn, sold it to the Shaker Ridge Country Club. The welling house was used as their club house until
1932 December when it, too, was destroyed by fire. As stated previously, no buildings of the North
Family Shakers now remain on the site. Even the location of the quarry is in doubt. This was the
quarry that produced the stone used in the foundation of the Meeting House, the Church Family laundry
and perhaps the whole five-story Stone Sisters Shop at the Church Family. So itmust have been
fairly extensive. The map of the golf club shows several ponds on the course, but the one "east of the
dwelling across the meadow" (the location described in the 1860 separation agreement) seems too small
to have been a quarry* That remains for future investigation.




Elizabeth D. Shaver
1986 September