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30 Dec Ephraim had a bad fit this morning and fell out of doors. One of hired men found him on
the ground ONE! little beforebreakfast.
1866
1 Jan A. Twiss quite sick, "rather doubtful whether he will make it or not." Laura is
not healed and her case is considered bad.
3 Jan G.Miller has made arrangements with A. Miller to let the last farm bought in
Illinois for 5 years.
8 Jan Taxes amount of $1350, $78 for Niskayuna.
12 Jan No prospect of snow which is anxiously looked and hoped for.
13 Jan Dr. Wade and son took 3 qts of water from A. TWiss which relived him much.
15 Jan Gatie Rockenstire brought 31 run of linen yarn she has spun. Gave her 20 knots
woolen yarn for stockings, $3.50 and some provisions.
25 Jan "Paulina Bates returned to her Watervliet home at the 2d Family to take charge
of their little girls for the .present."
1 Feb Elder Daniel Boler and George Price went to Schenectady to get something cast
for rolling basket stuff in lieu of pounding.
5 Feb "Jesse went to Troy, brought home some boxes to be put together on trial to
see how we can make out making some for Waters."
10 Feb Jesse went to Troy and took the few boxes Mary had made "which gave good
satisfaction."
11 Feb "Had a very extra singing meeting, pearly all the elders and quite all the
Sun. singers in the Society came. The good Ministry presided over all. Ihe object
of the meeting is to improve in the songs and to speak the words plainer and
sing with more life."
Catherine Bickford, "a girl from the East," came to live at the 2d Order.
Robert Wagan came from Mt. Lebanon South Family and brought 2 doz. chair frames
without varnishing or bottoms. Price - $44 (sizes 1, 2 and 3)
2 Mar Daniel took Abbie, Adelaide and Mary to Waters' Box Shop in Troy and they had
dinner at his house.
4 Mar Mary is to teach some of thepther girls to make paper boxes.,
5 Mar Lydia begins varnishing chair frames.
9 Mar Jesse went to Troy with 3000 boxes the girls have made for Waters and brought
some more to make.
10 Mar Lydia has varnished the 2 doz. chair frames 3 times.
13 Mar Society has given Elder Amos $51 to help pay for an artificial hand.
17 Mar Lydia has bottomed 9 chairscthis week.
Little Agnes Bottcher was taken away to go to her godmother.
22 Mar A girl named MacDole was brought "to see if she could make a home with us."
Sent to the SF.
"A very singular acting man came late to stay all night."
27 Mar Lydia has finished"'the chairs,~began :to work on baskets.
7 Apr "Last evening we received a box containing mozambique for sisters' dresses,
22 inches wide, price 60< per yd., made in Scotland."
11 Apr Nehemiah and his boys and some of hired men set out onions.
13 Apr Two girls from Amsterdam came -. Carol Ada and Florence Augusta Shepperman.
16 Apr All hands trying to get something in the ground to grow. Sisters are cleaning
inside.
18 Apr Finished with box making at present.
27 Apr CF received 14 silk, handkerchiefs made at South Union, Ky.
28 Apr "We have plenty of work to do this week and indeed at all times. The first
chickens this season appear."
4 May "The mother of the Shepperman girls came to see them. She only stayed a few
hours, brought them each a new dress and some other things."
5 May "Five young men students from Troy came for a ramble. Bought $12 of things in
the store. Had some dinner."
Willis, the wheelwright, and wife came to see their children.
7 May Janett and Caroline cleaned a lot of doors in the Office in soda. They took
them to the creek where there was plenty of water.
9 May Hosea Fuller died about 12 p.m. "He really died of old age and went out like
a candle."
11 May Funeral. Brother Joseph preached a very short but good sermon. "There were
some of our departed friends seen there and we had a very good funeral."
13 May Public meetings began.
15 May "Lucy and Adelaide spread the fine cotton to whiten for neckerchiefs."
"A man and woman brought a little girl to have taken, she was black and an
orphan at that."
16 May "Daniel, Lucy and Adelaide had a very hard job digging the plaster off the
room where Hosea died."'J
21 May Jesse and Chaincey went to Albany to attend to the Peck case. Postponed.
8 June "Daniel took Elizabeth Seely & Lydia to 2d Family to see Eldress Rebecca
Carter. She cannojp:; live long but is perfectly sensible."
9 June "Rebecca Carter died about 3 -a.m.
Two men are beginning shearing CF's 200 sheep.
10 June Public meeting today. Brother Joseph is sick "so we have no public speaker
Sun which is quite a loss to us,"
11 June Jesse took the wool to Cohoes to sell. "Being unwashed it does not bring
much."
16 June "A young man came fro^n NY to get some fancy fans if we manufactured any.
He bought $9.50 in the store which is something in these days of scarcity."
21 June A woman came from near Schaghticoke with her boy to have taken. Stayed
all night.
2 July It is hard for Elizabeth Seely to talk but she keeps working.
3 July "Elizabeth Seely is improving all her time in preparing to leave the Office
if not the shores of time. She fails gradually."
4 July Two men came towards evening time to get a few eggs, bought a basket and gave
a counterfeit $10 of the Governors Issue. He said his name was George Thompson
of Schenectady."
5 July "Elizabeth is around putting things in order. Near night washed some of her
gowns, skirts, etc."
6 July "Elizabeth was very sick all night but got up this morning, went downstairs,
drank a little coffee, did not sit up long. Told Lydia she did not think
she should live... evidently intended to go to the 2d House (infirmary) before
the day closed but before 2 p.m. her eyes closed and after the sun went down
the brethren carried her to the sick house .for the last time."
7 July Jesse went to.Albany for some coffin boards. Elizabeth remains about the same,
eyes closed and unconscious.
9 July Elizabeth has come to, after sleeping three days and nights.
10 July Quite a company from Home Lawn came and bought 5 chairs and baskets -
$48.00 worth of things from the store.
13 July The woman from Schaghticoke came to get her boy taken back. He ran away
last week.
14 July Lydia bottoming a chair, having sold 11 she bottomed in the spring.
21 July Woman from Troy came to see about having her 2 boys taken in the a.m. In
p.m. a poor woman came with a boy to have taken and they decided to try him.
22 July Paulina Bates made eldress at 2d Family..
"Elizabeth Seely still lives, has not taken % oz. of food, for the last 16 days."
23 Jul$ G. Miller leaves for Kentucky to see about some lands he has bought there.
31 July Two boys from Troy taken. /
1 Aug A woman came up on night boat from NY with her boy to be taken. Brethren
thought him a smart boy and kept him.
2 Aug Elizabeth Seely died at 5 a.m.
"A woman came from the depot late, said she came from Fort Plain, had no
home nor friends and came to find both. We kept her all night."
13 Aug Geo. Price, Nehemiah White,.-Matilda Wells, Lucy Fuller, Ruth Green, Lydia
Annas left on trip to Eastern Shakers. Ann Buckingham came to Office to
fill Lydia!s place while she was gone.
18 Aug Five sisters from St. Joseph's Catholic Church visited and "appeared to be
much pleased with their visit among us."
22 Aug Two priests from same church visited.
12 Sept "Two loads of people came here from NY to see the Shakers and buy some of their
- baskets."
23 Sept A. Clyne came to see his little boy who has been here two weeks.
24 Sept The Crandle woman came to see her two boys.
1 Oct The sisters that have been on a journey went to the Ministry's Shop in a.m.
to -make them a visit and the rest of the morning it took to clean the wagon
(or pay the fiddler, as the story goes).
2 Oct Ann and Lydia made a little assortment of baskets as ;.specimens to be sent
to Linn of NY.
6 Oct Judge Ira Harris and wife came for a short visit.
The uncle of Alice came after her - they had written to him to come and get her.
19 Oct Little Douglas' mother came to see him. The lady she lives with came with
her, they walked 8 miles and had to return the same day as the woman had an
infant at home.
24 Oct The Shirley Shaker Community have sold their cotton factory , and Elder Grove
Blanchard is now trying to settle with the other communities who lent them
money when they were first starting.
27 Oct Jesse went to Albany to see about buying the manure from one of the canal
stables.
Brooms are taken to be shipped to Mobile, Ala.
30 Oct Their drying house was burned to the ground in the afternoon. Not discovered
until it was too late to save. Filled with chicory to dry.
1 Nov Again went to Albany on law case with Peck but is -again postponed.
4 Nov William Boyce's mother came to see him.
5 Nov. Wm. Boyce decides to go with his mother so they are taken to Albany and will
go to NY on evening boat.
12 Nov Jesse and two of hired men take 7 hogs to James Stark to be bbtchered. They
average a little over 300 Ibs. each.
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18 Nov Last of public meetings.
9 Dec Hester Gustin'.of NF fell down on the steps and broke her hip.
22 Dec Lucy/Fuller and SSrah Taylor cut out and finish off 22 sets of table mats
this week and brought them to store at Office.
24 Dec "One of the boys that has been here a few months has a bad humor and they
send him to his father in Brooklyn to be doctored. His father sent money to
pay his passage and some of the brethren put him on the cars today."
25 Dec "Hired men all went away, not one here to dinner. We have quite a good meeting and a
very quiet day."
28 Dec Bad storm - violent wind, no teams out of stable and even the henhouse is not visited
Fri. by the sisters.
29 Dec One of the peacocks is found in the belfryon the dwelling house, (blown by storm)
Men are out trying to break the roads.
30 Dec "In our morning meeting we heard a very good epistle read from the Ministry respecting
the selection of children to be taken into our Society, bidding and taking care of the
same."
( In the back of this book, under February, is thepartial account as follows:
Red. Paid
1 1 pr blankets 7.00
spool silk and ribbon 14.30
for cutting pads & needle book 7.00
wire for baskets etc. 3.00
white paper for baskets 3.00
spool silk & 2 machine spools 1 .35
22 Dry goods in Albany 101 .00
Black lasting forshoes 15 yds. 30,00
Carpet binding etc. 8.50
For baskets 10.00
For table mats 7.50
Interest on $100 for 6 mo. 3.65
For table mats of NY 25.00
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