Tooa/r Analrsftrt - 1894 page


15 18 Aug Here from Albany, a party of young women, Van Benthuysen's
Printing Office, to look around. They eat their lunch in
w. orchard.

21 Aug Put up 65 do. cans string beans.

22 ?3 Aug 23 brethren & sisters from NF and 8 from hero took 3n early
start .for Albany & take the day boat & go down the river as
far as Rhinebeck, Had a pleasant day, a beautiful sail, got
hone about 8 pm.

25 Aug Put up 26 doz. cans string beans.

74 (Rachel goes by train to NY to meet her brother returning from Europe.)
(Monday entries in October -"do coarse & fine wash today."

28 4 Oct This day devoted to General Opening - the yearly sacrifice.

5 Oct Elder Isaac & Elder Joseph started this morning at 5 am for F
Albany to take the train for MY where they meet Ben 3", Gates '
of Mt . Lebanon. They leave NY together and go on to Florida
to look at some land there .offered for sale at a low price .
Ben 3. Gates thinks a Society of Shakers might be started there

30 27 Nov Elder Isaac arrived in Albany today from his long trip. Has
been to Florida, Tenn., Kentucky, Ohio and Penn.

31 3 Dec Lavinia Dutcher, NF, goes to Catskill to spend winter with
her sister.

32 17 Dec Elder Isaac has letter from C. N. Parent, one of the agents
for the Florida Land Co. He is from Chicago & will be in
Albany this afternoon.

21 Dec Elder Isaac goes to Albany to get pay for the apples the men
bought. They meet at Keeler's Hotel and there Elder Isaac
met Elder Joseph unexpectedly & Elder Alexander Work. They
talk over business concerning them. Elder Isaac had the men
bring home feed from Burhans, Geo. Burhans has made an
assignment to P . L. Eastman.

24 Dec older Isaac goes to Albany with butter & meets Elder Joseph
33 at Keeler's. Elder Joseph wants Isaac to go to NYC to see
C* H. Parent and buy the Florida land.


1895
34/35 14 Jan Isaac goes with butter, then to NYC to meet Benj . Gates &
then to Phila. to meet Hamilton Disston, owner of Florida
land & pay $60,000, rest to be paid later on -

35 24 Jan Isaac goes to Troy with 40 Ibs. butter & brings back butter
pails.
25 Jan Isaac goes to Schtdy with 30 Ibs. butter. Frank G. takes
butter to Albany.

36 30 Jan /Jacob Sower ( Bauer) aged 73, who has been ill for some time,
hung himsel-L at or .