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31 Aug Brethren are busy on Stone Shop. One dozen more baskets from
PAB.
15 Sep 18 more baskets for sale taken to Office.
24 Sep Sisters finish spinning worsted.
12 Oct Willard/A. finished carding wool - very late on account of low
water.
15 Oct Sisters finish spinning on the jenny!
26 Oct Boys' garret is nearly finished & plastered.
30 Oct Smith brought his- two children here to live - Lucretia & Philip.
4 Nov Sisters gathering husk for mattresses for sale, they are boil-
ing cider and cleaning house.
9 Nov Sisters put up garden seeds this week, all that c a n .
19 Nov Sisters quilt 9 comforters in 2 days.
30 Nov "Nothing very new nor very strange, I have to'tell."
4 Dec "The advertisement was put by the Great Gate."
14 Dec Brethren kill 20 hogs, 900 Ibs. link meat.
17 Dec "The gates are all closed and locked, no more to be opened
at present. "
1842
7 Jan "This day we all in silence keep, and are very still with
walking with our feet."
1 Feb "The brethren watch all night on account of danger."
2 Feb "The whole family watch till 12 o'clock and the brethren all
night; At 12 in the evening, the Brethren & Sisters assembled
together and shouted several times & then sung a song of victory
and kneeled & returned thanks to God for our protection from the
hands of the wicked, for they were at that time plotting evil
against the Believers to destroy them."
21 Feb Francis Goodrich came out of Deacon's Order & Daniel Sherman
went in to live with Wm. Yearsley. Zeviah Spier out of Deacon-
esses ' Order & moved to meeting room to Ii v e . Mati Ida Wei Is &
Betsy Harrison to Deaconnesses Order to live; Nancy White to
live with girls with Jennet Angus; Nancy Wells to North Chamber
to I ive and PAB went across the ha I I "into the other union
meet i n g . "
25 Feb "This evening while we were in silence attending to some read-
ing, we were disturbed with a sound of a drum which proved to
be a number of ruffians, 22 in number, who had got into our door-
yard, then made use of their drum & other music to frighten &
disturb us. Finding they were followed up by the Brethren, they
w i thdrew . "
26 Feb Susan Green died at NF.4&^~'
28 Feb We have watches every night on account of danger.
1 Mar The warning or a d v e r t i s e m e n t on
Great Gate taken down.
2 Mar The Gate is again open to the p u b l ic.
5 Mar Jesse Harwood comes out of Elders Order & goes to meeting room
to I i v e ; DAB to Iive with Elder Brother.
C. Miller taken from boys and went "to learn to be a doctor or
something of the kind." FSWicker sent to take care of boys.
Benj. Train went to North Chamber to live.
24 Mar Seeds are taken to old stone house for the world to come buy.
12 Jun Sisters begin to comb worsted, Willard to card.
13 Jun Almira T. beganffo spin on jenny.
22 Jun The siIkworms hatch out - about 200.
22 July The si Ikworms are alI very near wound; near 200 cwt.
10 Aug Finish spinning on the jenny.
19 Aug "Sisters are gathering all the cura they can." *
9 Sep Moriah Treadway's silkworms has begun to wind the second time.
28 Sep Elder ARchibald Meacham and a young brother, Theodore Agnew,
arrive from Ohio and are going to stay.
29 Sep C. Copley got hand hurt badly scraping broomcorn.
16 Nov Brethren are working at the Center., fixing the ground.
19 Nov DAB, M. Baker & W. Allen set out the trees at the Center.
14 Dec C. Copley started for Utica; returned on 23d.
28 Dec C. Copley & Jesse Harwood start on long journey. Home Jan. 27th.
1843
4 Jan Chanoing Prentiss & Willoughby Green start on journey. Return 18.
5 Jan Hannah Prescott d i ed . *-L*
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9 Jan Sarah Bennett died. ***73-9-ti
13 Feb C. Copley starts for Whitehall; returns 17th.
9 Mar C. Miller's mother & other relations come to visit; his mother
stayed on to 11th.
16 Mar "The sisters are a scratching away in tow, sometimes they card
40 weight and sometimes 50 Ibs."
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