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29 Jan Fred went to Albany and "tookjWi I I iamEarl along to see if he could identify
this Williams as either of the men he saw near our barn the night the ox
was stolen. He had no difficulty in pointing him out in the jail with lots
of other criminaIs.
3 Feb SB went to the WF to see Asa about the cabbage seed. Ward, one of the gar-
deners., wants considerable pay for damages because the seed was not right, etc.
6 Went to West Troy after 4 pm. They had caught the other thief & W i I I iam
Earl knew him immediately & pointed him out among 30 others.
7 Fred & William went to West Troy again. Had a pretty hard time of it, the
criminal had 3 lawyers. They came home about midnight.
9 Fred & Josiah went to Albany to attend the trial of Williams, the ox thief,
but the court had another case on hand.
SB, S. Rose & Wm. Earl went to WEst Troy on the trial of Williams1 accom-
plice, Dyer. There was no witness but Wm. Earl, has been cleared.
11 Fred, Josiah,Sam & Wm.Earl went to court again, stayed overnight, very
stormy. Had an "Irish case" in court so nothing happening all week.
14 Samantha quite out of tune so went to'the 2d House & "took a puke."
18 Williams finally sentenced to state prison for 3 years & 5 mon. Fred
stayed to be a witness in case against Fred Damp along with SB.
Damp to pay $25 damage & court costs.
1 March "CC & Fred,while in A l b a n y
nearly opposite Congress Hall, met with an acci-
dent which came near proving fatal to man & beast. The/cream colored mare
had taken fright & brokefaway from the cutter & ran at full speed right
against the tongue of the sleigh, splitting it off, leaving a sharp splintered
point. The fills were attached to the-Tunaway horse striking on the sidewalk,
went right over her head & she went thru them again. CC had his 4 yr old
colt with Tom, that were awfully frightened. The colt kicked one of his
hind shoes off, straightened the nails & split the whippletrees a II to
slivers. The brethren kept the team from running away by pulling the line
so they went round & round, throwing one horse, until Fred got out & held
them by a head."
2 Jesse again going after pipe stems. Home on 4th.
4 Thomas Murry taken to his mother as he wanted.
6 DS & Ell went 7 miles beyond Schenectady after the pipe stems Jesse cut
and got a good load of them.
7 Thomas Edwards had leave to bring William back. Accordingly after meeting
he came with h i m , walkedfrom Albany on foot. The boy seems perfectly de-
lighted to get homejagain.
11 "The peoplein Lebanon Hollow have got up a petition with considerable many
signatures in relation to the Lebanon Shakers..."
17 CC brought home 5 English children named MarkwelI & they stayed in Office.
18 Elder Sister, Betsy, Clarissa, MG & Lu,dia spent nearly all morning rigging
out the children with clothes, shoes, etc. Then took them to SF.
20 Mar Samantha died.
Thomas Murry brought back and went to SF.
29 Fred S. Wicker & Frederick Evans went to Albany "to commence their weekly
route" (with Legislature, which has just reconvened).
2 Mar Went to get scow back in river. It took 6 yoke of oxen.
10 Apri I/CCand Samuel Rose went to West Troy & got a bell for Second Order (NF).
The Shaker bill passed in their favor (in the Legislature).
11 Had 58 of Legislature & drivers for dinner. Frederick Evans preached
1 3/4 hours; 14 brethren & 16 sisters wentn to public meeting and 5-10 of
NF came aIso.
30 Everything being cleaned, white-washed, etc. "Lydia mended the cover of
the Ark and cleaned it some, then raked some etc."
Brought out English man & woman named MarkwelI to see their children.
13 May SB in Albany bought hat linings for both families.
20 (SUN) Loren, C. Vernoy & Susan went to public meeting with the visitors from
Lebanon and "had a very flat time of it." Most of the family went to the
Centre after supper.
2 June Sarah Shook taken to Albany, "chose to stay with her mother."
3 The Englishman and his son who shear sheep came. Sheared 80 the first
day. Finished the 2d day and moved on to the NF.
5 Clarissa went to the SF and bought some openwork palm leaf baskets.
9 FSW and some of WF went to court in A l b a n y
concerning John Maltbe who has
sued for his wages.
11 DM and Fred went to Albany hoping to see Dr. March. John Maltbe has sued
David saying he did not set his leg good when he was a boy at WF.
14 MarkwelI mother and daughter came to see the children.
25 Have 17 hired men working' on the Island.
28 A girl, Elizabeth G., brought from Albany.
10-12 brethren went to WF to help raise a barn.
1 July Andrew White's wife, children & servant came to board a few days. He came
for them on the 8th.
3 Benjamin MarkwelI came to bind his children.
4 (Sun) A great many spectators today - 172 carriages.
8 Elder Bro. John Lockwood (from Lebanon) brought the news that Brother
Thomas McHugh who was there on- a 3 week visit, "by some accident f e l l out
of the wagon and hurt himself so it is impossible for him to live."
Died on 9th, the day he should have returned home to Watervliet.
16 July Hired someone to comb the wool of CF and NF. He started June 15th, ave-
raged 5 Ibs. almost every day (but 3), cost them $20.71 each day.
19 Caroline Vernoy and Ruth Green went to Island to cook this week.
27 CTue) "Willoughby Green let it be known that he and Elizabeth Ingham were going
to leave us. Willoughby went on the cars to Schenectady."
Ex-Governor Marcy and family had tea.
28 DAB, CC, CV & LA took an inventory of Willoughby and Elizabeth's clothes,
tools, books, etc."and packed them up according to our best judgment."
Took the things to Schenectady for WG.
29 (Th) "Livingston's lady, daughter and one or 2 ladies came, had dinner (they
keep the Clinton in Albany)."
30 Betsy Markwell, mother of the children, came with four friends and had
di nner.
2 Aaug Judge Parker and family came, had dinner.
8 (sun) Benjamin Markwell came, stayed until after supper & saw his children.
144 carriages to meeting today.
9 Elder Rufus of Ministry died while on a visit to White Water.
10 The elders and deacons of all families except 2d Order (NF) met at Meeting
House after breakfast to see what was to be done concerning the dirt and
the world making "a shocking sight of dirt" in the Meeting House.
13 Bought 1000 yards of stripe cloth "mostly the meeting stripe" at Troy Mills.
14 Have harvested hay & grain: 40 loads hay, 17 of winter wheat, 20 spring
wheat (4550 sheaves), 10 loads rye, 20 oats.
15 150 odd carriages today, few with only 1 horse. Nearly 200 people could
not get in. Henry Hanson addressed the world, "said to be inspired to
speak for Cowper.
(It was not until July 1854 that Henry Hanson was to be exposed as a fraud -
he had a forged letter and false statements about going to England, etc.
Ministry decided to expose him but not to imprison him.)
17 MorrelI Baker and Jesse Harwood started for Johnston "after basket timber."
Back on 19th.
Phebe Freeman's sisterjcarne and bound her.
18 FSW had Julia $?) and Phebe's indentures "acknowledged before a justice
or some officer to make them lawful."
20 Brought out from Albany nearly 1500 leaves of palm leaf, mostly split ready
for use, from Fitzburg.
22 (Sun) "We had a good meeting for us. The Elders came out after meeting had a
tipping of tables before supper with the visitors (from Lebanon 2d Order).
After supper, the visitors went to First House in meeting room as many of
the family as chose went to witness the tippings etc."
Sometime previously a little girl, 2 years old, Sarah Pennington, both of
whose parents were dead, was brought to the Shakers.
25 Clarissa and Lucy Fuller took Sarah Pennington to Cohoes and had her bound
to Clarissa. Frederick Evans went to see the sheriff that had brought
the ch i Id.
1 Sept CM, Lucy and Lydia (Annas) went to Troy Mills to see about having some
cloth made for South Union Believers.
15 Elizabeth GMson taken back "from when she came" in Albany.
19 Henry Hanson again addressed the public meeting; "a great many spectators."
22 Went to Waterford "to get some basket stuff planed."
25 Finished harvesting broom corn - 4 weeks. Cut stalks, scraped and saved
most of seed.
27 Have 14 hired men. Part are now digging potatoes.
28 Brother and several sisters went to Island, Cohoes, etc. after silk grass.
30 Sarah Hays, husband and step-daughter came to see Arabella.
2 Oct Have had 13 hired men this week, 5-7 digging potatoes.
Got 43 barrels of apples on "both places at Niskayuna. 1 1
8 CC took MG and her 13 girls for a ride to Troy, Cohoes, Island, etc.
9 Dr. visiting David Miller three times a week.
12 David Miller died. Had been in extreme pain.
CC proposed putting an ell on the Ministry Shop so he can have a place to
work at joining. "To go about it immediately."
15 Some "evil creature" had cut the rope on the scow to the Island. "Had it
not been for the Witbecks if might have gone down the falls."
Six hired men have finished digging potatoes (3 weeks) - 2000 bushels.
Digging cellar for addition to Ministry Shop.
18 To Schenectady to order stone for water table, window sills, etc. of
Ministry Shop.
21 (Fri) Eleven of Comings and Rathbones came and had dinner.
23 Henry Hanson again addressed p u b l i c meeting.
24 To Albany for brick for Ministry Shop. Three masons from Schenectady &
Reece from Niskayuna to lay up Ministry Shop.
Six men are also boarding and rooming for 2-3 days who are surveying for a
proposed A I bany-Bi nghamton railroad. "So there are six in the visitors'
dining room, 13 below to eat." (This is in the Office building.)
1 Nov CM went to Ida Mills, got cloth & shipped to South Union.
Reece and another man came and finished the Shop.
2 Elder Grove Wright taken to Albany with about 250 yards of light striped
cloth that Elder Joseph Wicker ordered before he died for the Hancock
people.
8 Looking without success for some sheep that "got in a drove."
Brought out tinners to do Ministry Shop roof.
One of the Office sisters washed clothes for the surveyors.
One of surveyors is sick so Jannet & CV gave him an emetic.
10 The brethren took the seven surveyors to Duanesburg.
14 (Sun) "This is a day of holiness to the Lord. We rise at 4, meeting at 5.
There has been no meeting today or since Monday."
18 Trying to buy suitable window sash for Ministry Shop in Albany. Had 2 lots.
Nathan and SErepta Wood came to'see their children.
19 CC bought 100 bu. of fine feed in Waterford for the little pony.
20 Thomas Murry and his mother came to see if he could be taken in again
but were refused.
22 Hired Mary Terry to wash pantry walls and part of dining room wall in Office.
25 Thanksgiving. We hjad a good meeting in morning. After that we had a gen-
eral scrub at the Office. Catharine, Almira & Lucy all helped besides our
own folks. SB helped a whi Ie, then he and Sylvester went to the River Farm.
26 Took scow out of river.
6 Dec Two brethren going beyond Schenectady for pipe stems.
Hauling in hops daily. (Put these on fields as a kind of compost.)
7 SB and brethren preparing a compost heap with leaves, manure, etc.
Levi Shaw came to seeCC about the white leather he had sold them that
proved to be worthless.
8 Clarissa & Lydia are fixing the winter sleigh that they take journeys in,
painting it and new covering.
10 Went to Schenectady with 3 yoke oxen, 3 span horses to get turning lathe
ancf planing machine, cost nearly $500.
13 Elder Brother Freegift, DAB, SB and CC went to 2d Order to hold a meeting
"regarding the 2d Order building a machine shop as they are very anxious
for one."
14 SB, CC and Samuel spent most of day here and 2d Order regarding the shop
they want.
16 CC, DS, Clarissa & Lydia spent most of day putting the cover on the
journey sleigh. Clarissa painted it three times over.
17 Henry Watson went to Albany "to have his' teeth packed" (filled?) and
Channing went to learn how to do it.
18 Dec Michael Camp came to get an answer regarding the portion of the South Lot
he wants to buy. Agree to sell him 15 acres, wood and all, at $75/acre.
20 * Bought 18 acres north of us from Stone for $475.
25 Christmas. "We attend meeting same as common. SF elders came, making a
visit. They arrived about 1:30, stayed until 7:30. We had evening meeting.
27 FSW & Morrel I went to Albany to see the lawyer they hired to sue Jude Hammond
who some years ago, bought strawberry plants and never paid for them.
29 Buying feed for horses and hens in Waterford.
Henry Watson's younger half-brother, William, joins.
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4 Jan ' NF sisters have braided 75 doz. whiplashes.
5 Two men from Saratoga to buy corn husks for mattresses. Bought 400 Ibs.
at 60 per Ib.
6 CC and DAB got an early start to take Bro.Benj. S. Youngs & Asa Seaton to
Lebanon. Benjamin is to staysome time with Calvin Green in revising the
book "Christ's Second Appearing" and have it ready to be reprinted..."
Samuel Rose went to Yearsley's (Latham) to pay the great tax - $352.52.
"A crazy man called, had some dinner. We had some labor to get rid of
him but finally made it out."
11 Loren Wicks and Arabella Hays were "among the missing at breakfast; it seems
they took an early start for Syracuse. "The elders informed us that Josiah
& Lillis^cnose to leave. Their things were brought to the Office, inven-
toried. CC, CM, Clarissa & Jannet went to Albany with them and they took
Li I I is
to Dr. March about her finger. They felt very comfrtable. Elder
Brother thought they should be sent to Buffalo to their father as both
were under age.
12 An inventory taken of Loren's tools., his and Arabella's clothing, and packed
ready when the word shouald come where to have them sent.
14 DAB came back from Leylbanon with the news that BSYoungs fell the day after
he got there and hurt himself so that he had not been able to do anything
about the book since he got there.
17 Road Commissioners very anxious to have road from Shakers to Albany planked.
18 Justice and two sisters started. for Tyringham to teach 'them how to make
brushes .
19 "James the paddy has been to Schenectady after a load of manure every day
this week."
20 "Thomas the paddy goes to chopping every day..."
One of Osborns here "plank reading it." Had dinner.
25 James the Englishman and James the Irishman went over the river after
manure, returned soon after dinner and informed us that the oxen broke
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