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7 Apr 18" of snow . "They shovel the paths as though it was December. "
9 Apr Jesse froze one side of his face itwas so cold and wintry.
10 Apr Lydia is making white Lancaster quilts or spreads forthe Office use.
14 Apr Lydia is making splintfans. (The authoress of the journals at this point is
Lydia Annas, I believe.)
20 Apr Lydia is braiding fans.
24 Apr Asenath Pennington died this afternoon rather sudden. She walked over to theshop and
was weighed a day or two ago.
26 Apr Funeral at 2 p.m. "Sisters followed to the grave."
29 Apr Nehemiah and his boys went to the river farm to set out onions.
30 Apr C. Miller has had 220 apple trees, 50 plum and 10 cherry trees set out at South No* 2
farm and on the hill at home 100 plum, 75 apple and 50 peach trees.
5 May There was a general turnout to clean the Meeting House - 18 - allhere to dinner. They
brought wherewirh to pay their way.
10 May Hancock has had a fire - two buildings lost - $7000.
11 May C. Miller went to Albany to get things'to start school. He met Albina Hossick and her
Mon. mother trying to get a ride out to the Shakers. The mother took the night boat back to
NY, CM brought Albina out.
12 May "Albina is around trying toenjoy the sweet air. Her face is in a dreadfulcondition, she
is trulyan object of pity."
13 May "Clara Gade, mother of the Gade children, came from the NF and went right tothe
Ministry's Shop to see if they would consent to take the little girls backbut the answer
was 'nay.'"
15 May George took Albina to Albany and put her on the boat to go back toher mother. "We
did not feel to take the burden upon us by-tcould not help pitying her."
17 May "We had the general yearly Society meeting. Elder Daniel (Boler) led it. Elder Giles
Sun. read some at two diffecent times. Altogether we had a good meeting. It lasted 3 hours."
28 May Betsey Stone and Lycina McDonald return to Mt. Lebanon to live. They have been here
about 4 years.
3 June "A dentistby the name of William Clark came to see Ephraim and they have concluded
to keep him to help Ephraim."
4 June The mother of the Shepperman girls came to see them.
5 June Marie and Carrie Shepperman went back with their mother, leaving little Augusta alone.
6 June The dentist is working, well understands his business.
10 June The dentist went into Albany with C. Miller to get material for fixing teeth for our folks.
14 June Albert Lomas preached at public meeting.
19 June Dentist has finished and C. Miller got money to settle with him.
20 June Dentist has decided to stay untilnext week so they have fixed up David Hawkins 1 shop
and he w i l l work
there.
25 June Mann Bros./ Albany merchants/ brought out cloth Lydia had ordered - 24 yards "lavender
ladies' cloth - $1 .60 per yd.
28 June Elder Frederick Evans came from Mt. Lebanon and preached to the world.
3 July C. Miller and Janett (Angus')) took
Adelaide ingham to Dr. March in Albany and he cut
something from the roof of her mouth.
5 July Not many of world to meeting. DABuckingham read to them.
10 July Jesse went to Albany toget Groveland visitors. They have been as far as Maine and visited
11 Societies - Elder Peter Long/ Chauncey Sears/ Eldress Lydia Dole/ Eldress P o l l y (Lee)/
and Ann Smith.
12 July Elder Chauncey Sears preached.
13 July Elder Peter and company were expecting to go some place in a.m. but a honey bee stung
him and for all of two hours he did not know anything. He came near to death. C. Miller
and Janett tended him all day and he revived.
19 July DABuckingham read to spectators in meeting.
24 July We!s'hen Gustlnj came for a visit. She is nothing but skin and bone."
26 July Wm. Offord came from Mt. Lebanon to preach.
31 July Had severe thunder and hail storm in early afternoon. Hail cut vines badly and damaged
seed onions. Ann & Ruth who had walked to visit Eveline Deiner had started forhomdso
went into Imogene Whitehead's; a group that had gone after whortleberries went into
Fort's/ "the one that keeps the flower garden."
2 Aug All world's people seats filled; DABucking^fead to hhem.
16 Aug Brother John Robe from Mt. Lebanon addressed the public meeting.
19 Aug "Ella Benedict had some friends or relatives by adoption call to see her/ the first time
anyone has called to see her but once since she lived here which is 14 years and these
are adopted relatives she knows of/ no blood relation in this wide w o r l d . "
23 Aug Albert Lomas preached - very large assembly.
2 Sept "C. Miller is trying to be released and settle down in quiet old age." (Only 54 yrs.)
4 Sept The supper table brought the news that Albert Lomas is going togo to the SF to live with
Elder Issachar (Bates).
5 Sept Chauncey went in the orchard and caught a thief - took him by the collar and led him
down home,
12 Sept Yesterday and last night itrained 4 1/2 inches. The dam at the SF mill pond broke and
let water off in the CF pond with such a rush that the CF pond rose "and flooded the Office,
filled the cellars full
and some inches In kitchen. Sisters began swepping and mopping
before 4 a.m. and managed to get breakfast for the hired men. Lydia is 52,
1 3 Sept Brother Albert Lomas moved today to SF - "quite a trialfor him. "
Canning corn and saving the husks. Sold a wagon load to Sisters of
Charity for $19,
18 Sept Elizabeth Brown came from Brooklyn with her two boys to have taken.
Fri
21 Sept (Mon) Elizabeth Brown and her boys go to Albany with one of the hired men.
24 Sept SF drying kiln burned - filled with apples they had been cutting for two days.
30 Sept One of Judge Parker's daughters that married Pruyn came with 2 ladies from England.
"They seemed much pleased with their visit y bought a few things to take with them."
jjOther visitors to the store are noted from timeto time and it is mentioned when they buy
baskets or a chair.)
8 Oct Ruth is making peacock dusters.
Michael Murphy left. "He has tended the engine and been a very good hand."
9 Oct "A man from Troy came with a horse and covered vehicle containing his apparatus fortaking
stereotype views of our village. He had dinner. "
"A man came in thedress of '76 to represent Washington. He is 1/2 crazy ifnot wholly so."
10 Oct "The photographer, James Irving, came again today and brought his wife with him. He
has taken a great many views of our place and of all the brothers and sistershe could get
out of doors. "
12 Oct A man and woman brought a little boy and left him on trial .
15 Oct Chicory has been raised on the river farm and at Niskayuna and Daniel Sherman with Philip
Wiseman and John Burk work on making extract from it.
21 Oct Jesse went toSchenectady to see about brooms he is having made there.
Lydia is making baskets.
Samantha Is running whfte wax into molds to put in baskets.
23 Oct Irving sent some of his pictures and "they are very good specimens."
12 Oct Philip Wiseman was settled with this week and discharged.
16 Oct Sylvester and S. Fellows are busy repairing the saw mill. It is more of a jsb tha
was anticipated.
17 Oct The man from Oneida Community came. He has agreed to take our canned tomatoes.
18 Oct Ministr^y return from Groveland.
24 Oct "Ministry try to get someone to come to the Office to live. They have appointed
Aurelia White to fill Sister Ruth's place and Ella Benedict to come in Adelaide's
place. Sister Ann Buckingham will go and fill the vacant place in the family
deaconess's room."
26 Oct Elder Giles helps box the tomatoes to go to the Oneida Community and all hands
help Caty Maria label them.
31 Oct "An agent of Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine Co. came today with the improve-
ments. Aurelia and Samantha conferred together and concluded to try it." They
traded a worn-out machine for $10 and paid $40 for the new one.
All the teams are busy carting the tomatoes to Niskatyuna to send to Oneida.
"Stanton and Henry George are at work on the hill at the water making some
repairs and trying to get the benefit of both aqueducts to go."
11 Nov Henry George's two brothers came to see him. One, Alfred, is a tailor by trade
and he is going to cut an overcoat for Henry.
12 Nov Philip Wiseman is running the sawmill every day.
17 Nov Philip paid the interest on the money borrowed on the Groveland property.
19 Nov The Ministry came to the Office to see us together and to make some division
in the money. Aurelia has Ruth's bankbook containing $455.22 besides $140.00
in cash.
22 Nov The Little Sisters of the Poor came and we made them some donations.
27 Nov Henry George took Samantha and Barbara around to the neighbors to arrange to
obtain turkey feathers.
28 Nov Eliza Wells came to the Office to show Aurelia about making emery balls.
Ella is making soap.
10 Dec Elder Austin and Henry George took little Harry George over to the North Family
to live.
20 Dec Mr. Pearse brought nine turkeys to be killed and dressed for the feathers.
Henry George and H. GErsham^killed them. Aurelia, Ella,-Ann B. and Johanna
came and helped pick them.
22 Dec Henry George got 5 gal. of oysters for Christmas.
24 Dec "We are making some preparations for Christmas."
30 Oct Dug 417 barrels of potatoes on river farm and they are very large.
1 1 Nov " A man came to see the Ministry. He is sort ofcrazy. Thinks he has a mission to perform
in the world. He had a lamp burn all night and kept a fire. Did not lie down lest the Lord
should come and find him sleeping."
12 Nov "Elder Daniel, Eldress Betsey and Eldress Ann, by much solicitation, came to the Office
to see the monk so we could get ridof him. Elder Daniel gave him $1 to help his mission,
etc."
16 Nov Jane Brainard (of Mt. Lebanon, there on a visitwith others) spent today in the shed with
Ruth [earning about making feather dusters.
18 Nov "The Doctoress Mrs. Entwistle, came with her nephew to order some herbs. She bought
$20 of things in the store and ordered two armchairs."
19 Nov Sisters in Office up at 2:30 and visitors up at 1:30 a.m. to prepare fortheir journey home.
Took sistersin covered wagon to Albany to take cars. Brothers from Mt. Lebanon left
with their horse and wagon a 1 ittle before 4 a.m. "Some of us went back to bed. "
21 Nov To have "general opening" tomorrow but at evening meeting today Elder Daniel said they
had concluded to omit rising at 4a.m.
22 Nov Breakfast same time as usual . "Village is as quiet as midnight. "
Sun.
26Nov "We had an excellent meeting with the good Ministry, itlasted nearly 2 hours. In the
Thanks- evening the older part of the family had an extra meeting with the Ministry. Elder Daniel
giving and Elder Giles had a weighty yet beautiful gift to speak to build up the good and admonish
the wrong, especially party feeling and tattling."
15 Dec Have 8 hired men (Edward Male, Fred Mtucker, Dan McCarty, John Tribley, Ned Welch,
Philip Wiseman, James Dyer & )
17 Dec Samantha went to 2d Order to see Phebe Ann to learn something about making straw bonnets.
22 Dec Amelia Graves taken to Albany because she wanted to be with her mother.
27 Dec "Rather gloomy were itnot -go r the spiritual
elements. Some of the sisters stoppedin the
Sun. meeting room, had a meeting with some that live in the spiritland, which is quite new
and interesting to the young,"
29 Dec Joseph LaFuma died at NF where he has lived a long time. He had two children there
before he went there but they both leftthe Believers but he has remained. He is a Frenchman.
30 Dec Funeral at 2 pm. Three teams took brethren and sisters tofuneral . Son Joseph was tele-
graphed and got there in time.
31 Dec C. Miller, C. Copley, John Decker and Daniel Sherman started for the woods in Saratoga
County that belong to CF and NF. They own 400 acres up there somewhere. They are to
be gone three days.
1869
1 Jan Samantha has been weaving straw bonnets this week.
2 Jan C Miller and Daniel arrived horrid.Storm prevented their getting into the woods,, but they
made an agreement with a man they met who knew where the woods were and had a sawmill .
5 Jan Ruth is making fans with feather edges.
7 Jan "In the afternoon six or seven loads from Troy rode out here. Only a few came into the
Office. It was a school ofyoung ladies and girls from 10 to 14. The dooryard rung with
their peals of laughter." t
9 Jan Catherine Turk came to see her daughter Elizabeth. Walked from Newtonville.
20 Jan Four people came from Schenectady (Levi Case, son ofJoseph Case, was one of them) "to
make arrangements for some of our fancy things to sell on commission. They are tohave
a bazaar or something of the sort, "
21 Jan Lydia spent the day getting things ready for the bazaar as they had to have a price affixed,
besides the bill , etc.
25 Jan Inspector came to test their steam boilerand certify itwas safe. Is appointed by County
and gets$4 for each one he inspects.
10 Feb C. Miller to Albany and brought home a chest of tea "so we can live again. "
15 Feb Jesse made pipe stems, Lydia worked on baskets, and Samantha on straw bonnets.
22 Feb C. Miiller went toSchenectady and brought home the things not sold at the bazaar or fair
and $55.90 for things thatwere sold.
24 Feb The Gilroys have moved off the river farm on to the farm they bought from Bowman and John
& Henry Tribley^and their families have moved on to the ri \er farm.
1 Mar A woman came with her two grandsons, 11 and 8 years. "They gave her an indenture to
have filled out before we kept the boys."
2 Mar
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Elder Chauncy Searsjcame to see the Ministry about borrowing some money to buy some land.
CM mortgaged one of CF's farms for $5000.
4 Mar Eldress Betsy Bates or Central Ministry at Mt. Lebanon died. Over 400 attended her funeral
on the 5th including 8 from Wlvt. CF.
6 Mar Man namid Betts came with his wife and daughter. They are spiritualists and the daughter
is a trance medium. She communicated for a number of spirits. It was very candid and
prettily done. "
9 Mar Ruth, Caty Ferguson and Adelaide went to wash house and picked 3 peacocks, 1 pea hen
and 3 turkeys - alldry to save the feathers.
15 Mar Man named Baker came from the north woods to see the two Chaunceys in hopes of raising
money to build a steam sawmill but they did not feel like advancing money.
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