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1850
11 Feb Coitus Hayner and wife here to settle for stealing wood.
12 Feb "Thomas Beal to Hayners to take some basket stuff and provisions."
13 Feb Galen/(Richmond) and his family are brought out from Troy.
24 Feb "We had three Indian chiefs in our public meeting."
2 Mar Galen's sister and brother-in-law here.
11 Mar I .B. takes Galen and family to Troy.
14 Mar Galerfis brought out again and on the 15th helps fix pipes in machine shop.
3 Apr A man and his wife from West Troy offer us three girls.
6 Apr The girls come from West Troy - Mary, Elizabeth and Anna Ellis.
13 Apr The Ellis girls1 mother brings them some clothes.
24 Apr The Ellis girls' mother came with two more children.
27 Apr The mother of the Ellis girls comes to stay.
28 Sun Ellis comes to see his wife and children.
30 Apr Mrs. Ellis leaves.
7 May Mrs. Ellis returns.
2 July I.B., Henry and Mary Ann go to West Troy "to take a cmzy woman to the poormasrer."
4 July Thomas Beals to Albany to take Eliza Bigelow to the poor house.
6 July Great thunderstorm last night with heavy rain and flooded and "did great damage to our
mill dams, saw mill, etc."
10 July Prudence Spencer's funeral at CF .
22 Aug I.B. and Joseph go to the CF Office with the elders and deacons of the other families
"to devise means to heat the Meeting House more economically ,"
20 Oct "A load of respectable colored people here from Albany,"
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1851
2 Jan Ellis comes from Troy to bring his baby.
13 Jan The elders go to Albany to see "the b lack priest, Robinson."
25 Feb Funeral of Walter Waterman at WF .
25 Mar A German named Fred Griffenham came for information.
2 Apr Buy the Powell farm from Lawyer Baker for $4300.
14 Apr The deacons and 3 brethren and 2 sisters to the Powell place to put up fences and get
in grain.
18 Apr "A runaway slave comes from Indiana to find a hiding place."
5 May Alexander to Albany with William, an Irishman, to see the police offers about a Dutch
thief.
7 May "Augustus came up and moved among Germans to spy out a thief but didnot succeed."
16 May The brethren caught the thief.
19 May "A woman here in search of a little boy four years old."
27 May Mary Ann Ayers is released as the Elder Sister with Eldress Paulina and becomes first
Deaconess and Sarah Beal takes her pboce.
23 June Martha Bates died.
5 July The two Rebeccas taken to Albany ( Rebecca Jackson and REbecca Perot ?)
22 Aug An Irish baby named Mary Riley died this morningat The SF. Funeral the next day.
7 Sept Anna Ellisis taken away.
*> / . \lof Thomas Conry, an infant. (Jknftr+f

21 Sept Funeral of Benjamin Wells^
27 Sept Ten of the brethren go to CF to help with a raising at their Pleasant Hill.
16 Oct I.B. to Albany with Shubel to see the surrogate about Benjamin Wells' will.