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1 Sept Take Abraham Hendrickson to NYCity for his eyes -nearly blind.
Back on 3d.
2 Sep "My peach tree by Ministry Shop had 58 peaches, one of which
weighed 5-| oz . "
3 Sep C. Miller and 3 sisters went after pennyroyal.
10 Sep Masons finish cellar walls.
11 Sep At River Farm a train ran over 17 of their lambs. Brethren
did not find until the next d a y .
19 Sep Sisters have a spinning bee to try to get worsted done. Nearly
finish, have 42 + runs.
20 Sep Brethren begin raising somepf new building.
30 Sep Begin to raise rafters on new building, finish Oct. 4.
27 Oct Masons come to build chimneys & arches in new part of building.
Finish 31st.
28 Oct Have taken shingles off old part of dwelling house, now have
tinners put on new roof.
1 Nov (Sat) Tinners finish except soldering'.
4 Nov Tinners go to election.
7 Nov Tinners finish both old & new parts except door'caps.
Raining. DAB takes them to Albany in "the covered ark."
10 Nov Wind blew like a hurricane all yesterday & night and took some
of tin off new part.
17 Nov Three or four of brethren are clapboarding the new house, "but
it is very cold work for the hands."
23 Nov Brethren finish clapboarding west side of new house.
25 Dec "Today being Christmas, we keep it very sacred; we attend two
meetings which occupied 6^ hours."
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8 Jan Nancy Wells died, aged 23-10-17.
10 Jan Her funeral. Her father Benjamin and Alexander Youngs from
SF attend.
13 Jan A. Train and Ruth Green move into North Room; PAB & Sally MuIly
move down into meeting room; Nancy White moves into North
Chamber from Stone Shop; Eliza Ask took her place.
Finish fitting window frames in new building.
BOOK 2, Jan. 1, 1846 - August 25, 1849 Authoress ?
1846
CMiller and physician sisters bottle sarsaparilla syrup.
School inspectors come to see school & examine teacher.
8 doz. fancy brushes brought to Office for sale; also 6 doz.
small baskets and 1 pair little stockings.
4 Jan DavidMiller went to NF to set knee bone of one of girls who
had fallen.
16 Jan Brethren bring 120 Ibs. fresh codfish.
17 Jan Have order for 50 loads stone from quarry for "Mitchel who
lives between here and West Troy."
18 Jan 26 Legislators attend meeting.
20 Jan Mary A. Bates made 4 doz. brushes - brou ht to Off i ce for sale.
24 Jan Abraham Hendrickson's clothes brought from New Lebanon. "It is
thought best by Ministry for him to make hi s home here . "
(He came Aug . 28, 1 845. )
30 Jan Hannah Youngs of SF dislocatedhip; Davi d Miler went to set it.
31 Jan 12 doz. more brushes from MA Bates; 8 do z. from Emily j^Con
6 doz. baskets (different sizes)., 2 doz. + 5 from Sally M.,
1 doz. + 7 from Sarah S.
-- 3 Feb "The Patroon has made an offer for all that is able to pay the
right of soil may, and be released from paying rents. Therefore
the Deacons has gone on the business for us and the 2d Order."
6 Feb Justice H. & FSW went to lawyers in A l b a nyre. "a boy there is
like to be some trouble about, he lives at 2d Fami Iy." (WF)
7 Feb Daniel S. took from Office the cotton cl oth - 157 yds d r i l l ! ngs,
1 60' yds sheeting, 617 yds. shirting.
13 Feb Two brethren to Clarksville to get red walnut for chair rounds;
got 2 logs @ $2 each.
20 Feb Snowing since yesterday - about 4 ft. avg.
William Yearsley died, age 69-6-20.
27 Feb Finish thrashing - 300 bu. rye, 410 bu oats, 300 bu. buck-
wheat, 20 bu. barley.
28 Feb 1 2| doz. fancy brushes to Office from MA Bates.
2 Mar Jesse H. takes Wm. Yearsley's place in Deacons room.
5 Mar SHSmith leaves girls1 order, moves into meeting room to 1 ive.
6 Mar Boys' school over - Willoughby Green teacher.
10 Mar Eunice J. and E. Ingham made 62 doz. candles at washhouse.
12 Mar Freegift finished glazing & put windows in new house.
Eliz. Ask brings 10 doz. fancy brushes to Office.
13 Mar FSW and another brother to Albany to see lawyers concerning "a
suit that the Ohio Bel fevers have on hand which is in relation
to Malcolm Wordley's property which he willed & consecrated to
the Believers therebefore his decease, 5/of which his own children
is now trying to claim,"
Ice went outlof North (Hudson) River.
18 Mar M. Treadway & B. Harrison* begin to reel silk in ironing room.
Finish 19th. PAB made ^\. draw baskets for Office to sell.
20 Mar The bluebirds begin to sing.
Six long palm leaf baskets, made by PAB, came to Office.
26 Mar In Albany, a house basement on Broadway has high water mark
from 1802, water is now 6 inches over if.
1 Apr Bought 2 pieces blue striped at Ida Mills, Troy.
15 Apr Went to &ui IderI and"about making the cloth."
16 Apr Bought piece of trouser cloth at Ida Mills.
23 Apr Eat in kitchen in new part of Dwelling House.
26 Elder Sister very sick.
"The Holy Orders were read a.m. (in meeting) for the first time
since they were revised."
30 Apr A. White came tofclean the schoolhouse.
1 May A. White and Polly Edwards went to school house to study for
i nspect i o n .
5 May "Growing weather. Cherry trees in blossom."
Caroline V. came here from SF to live, aged 24 years.
Girls' school began.
6 May Catherine V. & L. Fuller appointed to dry roots, herbs, extracts,
etc. AM to take Catherine's place in washhouse & Office kitchen;
Ruth Green to take AM's place in dairy room.
10 (Sun) Rain again. For two Sundays have been disappointed about atten-
ding meeting at Center with Ministry.
13 May Moriah informed them that Sophronia and AA were to help in Officwe
instead of ES and AM.
17 May Again rain,no Center meeting.
Caroline V's brother came to visit & stayed overnight.
I June Aurelia White & Mary Edwards taken to West Troy "to be inspec-
ted for School Teachejtfrs. M.E. was 15 years old last March."
4 SB went to Albany "to look for hands to hoe broom corn."
6 "A woman came here about 5:30., said she was from Buffalo and
wanted to live here, said her name was Catherine Russell. We
sent her to the SF. The man that brought her was in a great
hurry to go back to Buffalo."
8 Moved Dunford's family on the Island. Family has 2 children -
4 years and 6 months. She is hired to look after 9 hands to
start hoe i n g .
II Dr. March came to see Elder Sister and brought his family along.
23 E. Van Schaack came after some baskets; CO brought 400 fresh
herrings from Troy.
24. Thomas Rose concluded to go foNYC to live. 23 years old.
25 Serepfa Wood taken to Lansingburgh but could not find her par-
ents and, hearing they were in NYC, put'her aboard a steamboat
for NYC. 16 years old last October.
26 "Stocking wool" taken to Guilderland "to be manufactured."
8 July "Unheaded a barrel common Havana sugar brown."
12 Some Advents attended a.m. meeting.
16 The sisters bought some yellowish crockery of George Harrison,
made at Mech a n i cs v iI I e.
17 Caroline V's mother and 2 sisters visited her.
19 Elder Sister Po I I y^re I eased, MOriah Treadway (36) and Betsy
Harrison (34) "anointed."
20 Catherine Baker taken to Saratoga to live with her uncle.
23' 120 Ibs. butternut worsted taken to Cohoes to be combed.
24 finished hoeing broom corn; Dunford's settled with, moved back
home .
26 James Durham left when family was at meeting.
28 Enoch Jacobs, wife Electa, & child arrived from Union Village
31 Enoch & family taken to Albany.
9 Aug Two Adventists brethren, Richmond & Hazard, attended pm meeting.
10 Adventists open camp meeting at Enfield, Ct.
Sister Polly & Matilda very sick with abcesses.
11 Dr. March came to open Matilda's face and he and his wife stayed
for tea .
13 Aug Canterbury ministry came for a visit.
19 Went to Ida Mills to buy cloth for Canterbury ministry.
22 Moved Dunfords back to Island; beginning to harvest broom corn.
(Continue to do so through Oct. 3.)
27 Azuba Train taken to Albany to Dr. March who operated on her
throat for a "stricture that obstructed the power of swallowing."
28 "Wi IIiam Tripure and a company of turnbacks from Canterbury
exhibited Shakerism in Albany."
31 To Troy and bought a cookstore for Office., "Davy's Patent" at
$3000 ($30.00 ?) with ARchibald Meacham's money (died 10 May
1845), also enamelled saucepan for family & sauce kettle for
Off i ce.
7 Sept Mary Gillet died of brain fever in Troy, sick 18 days.
14 Broom corn "is moulding very bad and the brethren generally
turned out this evening and tried to save it."
17 CV, LF, MAB went after silk grass. The sisters that could be
spared went to the NF to help pick hops.
20 Sister Polly "is going on her journey quite fast."
21 CF, LF and little girls go after silk grass.
One of CC's horses stolen from stable during the night.
22 Get out an advertisement for horse as soon as possible. Look,
but no trace .
23 Polly^died.
24 CC and another brother start on Delware Turnpike for stolen
horse .
25 Finished drawing broom corn from Island - 96 loads.
26 Advertisement wired to Hartford for horse; reward $75 for horse
and th i ef .
28 Horse back, caught in Bloomffeld, Ct.
5 Oct Letter says horse thief tried, convicted, sent to prison for
4 years .
7 Sisters finish spinning worsted.
8 Two sisters and girls "picking out" the sweet corn husks.
9 Sisters picking grapes at Island. "Had a fine time."
16 CC, CV, LA went to Schaghticoke after cotton yarn, took a load
of rags and sold them for $10.
22 Oct Some thieves broke into SF Clothiers Shop & stole several
p I eces of c I oth .
24 Theodore Bates died at SF .#**&- 0-fS
30 BT & BS went to River Farm and found two yoke of oxen stolen.
One was for beef, one for working.
31 In Waterford, found that the oxen had been brought there on the
26th and sold by "a youngster about 21 years" for $140; said
they must be killed, they were so unruly, and accordingly they
were ki I led by the 28th .
2 Nov Brethren in West Troy about oxen, when Elder Brother sent for
them because "George Wood was here with his mother avisiting
(for they were suspicious he was the one that stole the oxen).
Accordingly they got a constable and took him this side-of Kirks
and he proved to be the thief and was sent to jail forthwith
at Albany."
10 SB & BT were to Waterford and settled with the butchers for the
oxen by taking two yoke of cattle.
11 Morrell B. started for Johnstown "for basket timber."
12 Sent Chloe Giles1 frrunk and one sewing chair to her by a Welsh-
man, Hugh Jones, to Utica. "Deposited here since the fa I I of
1834. "
13 Sisters finish husking corn, brethren work on road, load of
brooms taken to Albany to be sent west.
14 "This even^o w h e n we were in meeting on our knees in silent
prayers, the lamp cord burnt off and let the globes fall which,
of course, broke to atoms and gave the assembly quite a shock."
18 Went after poke root - SB, CM & DS .
20 SB gave G. Peavey $20 to move his family here from Canterbury.
24 Calvin Green taken home; had been here 4 weeks.
27 SB went to West Troy and bought a Priam cooking stove for the
dwe I I ing house cookroom.
28 Took out old Rotary stove purchased in 1836 & put up Priam.
8 Dec Alex Youngs dressed the grist mi II stones.
10 Dec Geo. Peavey arrived at SF with his family from Canterbury.
12 CC went to; Gu I I der I and and settled with clothier for making
cloth - $349.44.
17 "We understood by the world that Lydia Wood committe^d suicide
last Monday, 14th, by cutting her throat with a pair of scissors
and died in 5 minutes at John Baker's house in Albany."
19 Dec Dean Gage died.
Loading brooms for western trip., found mice had been eating
brooms and "made bad work among them."
21 CC, CM start on journey to Watertown with brooms & whiplashes.
Nine teams to Schenectady to get timber for Meeting House which
came from Groveland.
22 Man named Atkins came from Philadelphia with wife & child and
said "they wanted to forsake all and join the Shakers."
29 Killed 17 hogs, avg. 380 Ibs. Skins sold @ 30/lb, 418 Ibs.,
$12.54.
30 "Beloved brother John Scott died, having been sick about one week."
1847
1 Jan Put 700 Ibs. corn husks in bags for sale.
4 "Our good sister Tabitha fell in a fit of palsy this a.m. before
breakfast and -put her hip out of joint and it is not expected
she wi II ever recover."
9 CV put up 19 doz. corn brushes for the -western journey.
13 Elders, deacons and business brethren from the fami Iies meet
and divide each family's portion of timber for the new Meeting
House and decided to roof it with tin.
16 Yearly accounting: 1st Order 47 men, 38 females; 2d Order
21 men, 27 women; total 153.
18 SB went to Yearsleys to pay the great tax - $185.57.
20 Two brethren start to meet CC and FSW at Watertown with 80 doz.
brooms, seeds, brushes, etc.
30 CV given $20, her portion of her father's property. ^
1 Feb Got certificate for AB to teach school and school began. /
( Rep I aced CM. )
5 Ross & Howe burned out in Cohoes; some loss as they had Shaker
herbs and brooms .
9 Channing P. went to Johnstown for basket timber.
10 FSW and CC returned from western seed journey after 4 wks 3 days.
12 Fire at Harvard NF granary & wagons - $1000 - arson.
CC went to Albany and paid $900 "for the 60 acre lot."
27 Nancy White died. JUL 3}--/(^3
28 Two loads of legislators attend meeting.
1 Mar "Keep this day like as Christmas. Heard the church covenant
read in a.m.," funeral in p.m.
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