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3 July Alvira from 2d Family came and invited CF to have a picnic on 4th.
4 July "The family generally stopped work and went to picnic. We have dinner in
the woods. SF make some ice cream. We. all enjoy it very much." GC carried
them back and forth.
28 July "It is thought best by the ministry to have Elliot Mires (Ellyette Myers)
" to the SF to live with her mother." . ''.* * -. .
11 Aug "I do not hardly know what to write so little of anything of importance
happens. CG goes somewhere every day." .V"'.- *"
21 Aug Ruth and Samantha go to Albany and buy two ice cream freezers for $10.
25 Aug Gut corn for drying, grind apples for cider.
13 Oct "John Carson has concluded to leave the Shakers and return to Troy. He has
been here almost two years lacking two months."
23 Oct Samantha burnt her foot on Oct. 16 and finally goes to infirmary today.
Her foot is very bad.
Ruth is taking care of her chickens; Adelaide stays on in the kitchen in
her place.
1 Nov Ministry arrive home from a trip to western communities. "Eldress Ann is
quite out of health."
2 Nov Eldress Ann goes to infirmary, has chills and fever. Samantha still there.
7 Nov Samantha fiqffally back to Office and into the kitchen. Eldress Ann still
in infirmary.
12 Nov "We have no meeting today, in,;any of the families. There is quite a fire
at Niskayuna this evening. The depot and several shed burnt. Some of .our
folks went to help extinguish it."
13 Nov Philip killed the rest of the ducks. Ruth & Samantha draw them. The Min-
istry and all the deacons hold a meeting about t putting slate on the Meeting
House shed.
15 Nov Eldress Ann is quite sick.
4 Dec Eldress Ann take&i for a ride to Niskayuna along with Ann Buckingham and
Catherine Veeder.
7 Dec Eldress Ann came to Office for a visit. "She is quite feeble."
12 Dec Eldress Ann, Ruth Green and Adelaide taken to Albany to go to Mt. Lebanon.
CMiller accompanies them.
26 Dec James McNally came to see his sister Julia.
1877
2 Jan CCopley paid the taxes - $1250.
Oliver Prentiss came to visit, walked out from Albany, very windy. He is 79.
4 Jan A Mrs. DeForrest from New Jersey, who has been corresponding with the CF,
arrived with her two girls, 10 and 5, and a boy 7.
5 Jan "They have not had the children go into the family today, it being Friday.
Stanton is agoing to take the boy."
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6 Jan This morning the children go into the family and glad be we. Edwin Male took
the mother to Albany."
9 .Jan Edwin Male took Mary Nelson and M^ary Call to Albany to go to Rnowersville
(now Altamont) to attend the Albany County (Teachers) Institute. Mary had
$17 of school wages, she returned $7 to Philip.
12 Jan Very cold. No water in barns. It takes two hired men and the oxen to draw
water for the cattle.
15 Jan Water very scarce, hired men digging to find leaks. Sisters have to wash
by hand.
17 Jan Ruth begins to make emery balls.
21 Jan Singing meeting at music hall with Elder Austin as teacher.
Sun
24 Jan Nehemiah and Philip go to Lansingburgh to pick up seed bo&es. Somewhere they
meet a young woman who wanted to come home with them to be a Shaker so they
brought her - name is Mary Isabella Andrews.
26 Jan Mary Andrews visits some today. So far we like her.
27 Jan Mary Andrews goes to the family today. "She is determined to be a Shaker.
She has been a teacher in the public school in Lansingburgh."
29 Jan "Our young Shaker is sick, was sick all night, they get her to the infirmary
Mon. today."
30 Jan "Nehemiah and Henry went to Lansingburgh. They find out some things about
Mary Andrews somewhat different from what she told them."
31 Jan "The girl wants to go to Troy so Philip takes her to Niskayuna" (for the
train). Samantha is at work on her boxes.
2 Feb CCopley went to James Pearse and got some beer for Ephraim who seems to be
failing.
5 Feb "Ephraim is quite low. He has met with quite a change." Died at 9 p.m.
6 Feb "Charles and Sylvester is making EphraimTs coffin."
7 Feb "We attend Ephraim!s funeral. All the families came. We had a very good
funeral, some of the neighbors there."
ll':Feb Singing meeting this morning, NF attend, Albert is teacher.
Sun.
19 Feb CMiller burnt his eye with carbolic acid. It is very painful.
20 Feb CC brought home a box of codfish. He let the NF have 200 Ibs.
14 Mar Philip Wiseman left today. He could not agree with the Englishman.
2 Apr Simeon Russ has been hired for a year to drive the "garden team."
3 April Four men came to graft apple trees and stay all night.
4 April William Johnson moved from SF to WF, .
6 April "Ghas. Hines left this morning. He does not wish to be a Shaker."
12 Apr A tin pedlar came. Samantha traded off the rags and got some tin, about $9
worth, paid about % cash."
16 Apr Eldress Lydia and Mary Nelson go to Albany to get some children - a boy and
a girl.
20 Apr "The ministry call a meeting, they want to see all the covenant members
together to talk of temporal jnatters ."
30 Apr CMiller agrees to take the business again. (^t^<3^
1 May Eldress Ann comes to speak to the sisters about G. Miller's coming back to
the Office as G. Copley is quite feeble to carry on the business.
2 May Ministry sisters went to the 2d Family. They have made all the sisters two
caps each since they have been here.
6 May Henry George and Lewis Funk .coming to CF to live, having lived a short time
at SF.
9 May "Barbara Hooper is agoing to take care of Lewis Funk and all six of the boys'
clothes."
10 May CG moved from the Office today. "He is quite feeble and will be glad to
retire from business."
In the afternoon Elder Austin went to SF after the two brothers and 3 boys.
11 May Ruth is busy picking up and looking over Cc's clothes and sending them to
No. 8 where he is to live.
13 May "Families all meet at Music Hall this morning to sing the hymns for public
Sun. meeting and learn to sing in harmony."
17 May Joanna Myers and her daughter Ellyette moved from SF to GF today.
Henry George begins to accompany CC on his trips to town.
5 June Hailip and Sylvester make a tub to put by the Office for horses to drink
from. Chas. helped Samantha put down new oil cloth in office front hall that
she had just bought fori'$25. Ruth fitted new stair carpets to visitors'
s tair s .
8 June Ruth cleaned up a little spinning wheel for Judge Harris* family. They came
for it about 5 p.m. and had supper.
9 June Lewis Funk stretched carpets in deaconesses' room and meeting room and took
the stretcher back to Mosely's (apparently a store in Albany).
16 June Had their wool taken to Roy's Factory.
19 June Two ladies arrived from New Jersey with a little girl they wanted us to take.
27 June CM went to West Albany to help make arrangements about this town having
police. The father of the DeForest children came here after them and took them.
28 June Lewis Funk went to Albany/ to'ok two of his boys along and brought out two
more to live here.
Two police came in evening after two of our hired men, Samuel Might and Geo.
Duckj and CM took care of them.
30 June Two police called to see about Samuel Might,
5 July Henry George went to Schenectady ;:af ter broom corn. Some of the hired men
had to go and attend the law suit.
6 July Geo. Price took some of the girls to get straw for bonnets. Men went again
to Troy about law suit.
8 July Police came today for the first time to keep order at Meeting House.
Sun.
10 July "The authorities have established a police to be on hand about our premises
every day in the week. There are three in this Town of Watervliet.
22 July Henry George's mother and two of his brothers came to see him.
27 July Post office has now been put in the Office,
31 July Levi and Oliver came about noon to introduce a new method of cooking milk;
is an agent for the manufacturer.
2 Aug Nehemiah White took Ruth and Samantha to see the"sand farm" and it is a sand
farm sure enough.
19 Aug CMiller is released from business. Philip Smith and Henry George will be
acting trustees.
21 AUG Henry George moved to the Office to live.
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9 Sept Sister Ruth is going to the infirmary today. She is very feeble indeed.
12 Sept Lewis Funk went into Albany to meet his daughter.
13 Sept Ruth had a very bad spell and we did not think she would survive but she
rallied about noon.
16 Sept Caty Malory's father came to see her.
19 Sept CMillerT s law suit is now on hand and he attends to it.
G. Ferguson came and stayed with Ruth.
23 Sept Ruth finishes this life about 2: 20. Has been in infirmary two weeks, would
have been 62 years old Sept. 28.
24 Sept Ruth ' s^funeral . "I never was more pleased than I was to see how many friends
she had."
26 Sept Joanna and Ella Myers went to Albany with Henry George to meet their mother
and ajfriend of hers. They **brought her home for a visit.
6 Oct Agent from Oneida Community called to order tomatoes.
7 Oct John Holt of NF died.
11 Oct1: Polly Turner died on 10th, funeral today.
Ministry have gone to Groveland for two weeks so Ann Buckingham comes to
Office to stay. "She is as bright as a lark."
2 Jan Philip paid the taxes - $1267.62.
13 Jan Philip, Albert (Lomas), Ann B(iuckingham) and Samantha went to Albany to hear
Robert Ingersoll lecdture on ghosts,by request of Mr. Eastman. We all stayed
at his house all night.
23 Jan Our friend, P. L. Eastman, and wife came to visit today.
31 Jan Anna Clement of 2d Family- fell and broke her hip.
15 Feb "Elj]der Giles j'and Albert Lomas went to Albany to see the Eddy boys. They
are holding seances."
20 Feb Ministry brethren and four sisters go to Albany to see the Eddy spiritualists.
25 Feb Daniel Sherman gives up direction of the farm and HenryOGeorge takes it.
26 Feb Philip accepts an order from the Oneida Community to grow tomatoes.
2 March Sow "40 boxes of tomatoes."
5 March Elders Giles and Galen go to Lockport near Rochester to see a man named Kibby to
learn how to can corn by steam.
18 MARCH Nehemiah went to the funeral of Benjamin Starbuck in Troy.
20 Mar Some of CF go to 2d Family for Permilla Earl's funeral.
27 Mar We took two children today. The mother is quite poor and goes out nursing.
28 Mar We take another girl today. Her sister is here.
30 Mar Daniel McCarty is done working for the Shakers. He has been in their employ
for nearly 30 years.
(During the winter, each Sabbath there is usually a "singing meeting."
30 April "This morning we miss some clothes off the grass. They had been stolen in the
night."
1 May "Philip goes to Albany and gets o/iiu^clothes back that were stolen. The thief
is sent to the penitentiary for 6 months."
11 May Stan ton, C. Copley and Henry George go to Albany "about the mortgages on the
house in Albany."
One of our peacocks was found dead.
16 May Philip is quite sad. His tomatoes were all killed by the frost we have had for
two nights.
30 May Some of Belle Pease's folks came after her.
2 June "The families all met at the Meeting House to arrange for singers for public
Sun. meetings.''
9 June Public meeting. Elder Giles addressed the audience.
16 June Brother Thomas Smith addressed the audience.
23 June C. Dibble
s\ty
24 June H. Gersham has decided to go to the world.
25 June Henry George and C. Miller took H. .Gersham and Caty Hallenbeck to Troy and
"had them married."
16 June Mary Call was taken to Troy. "It is her choice."
27 June "A gentleman drove up about noon with Mary Call. She is very homesick."
\% 28 June Mary Call wishes to return to Mechanicville and Henry George took her.
3 July "James Isles' father came to see him. Christia Isles concluded to go with
him."
14 July Albert (Lomas) spoke to the spectators today for the first time this season.
Sun. q
22 July Mr. Eastman in West Albany met with a sad accident -a steer gored him badly.
24 July Philip took Samantha and Ann to Albany to see Mr. Eastman. "He is very bad off."
28 July A great many spectators today. G. A. Lomas spoke.
31 July "Julia McNally has made up her mind to leave the Shakers. Philip took her to
Albany to her brother.
Sarah Van Wyck went back to Lebanon to live.
4 Aug "It has been arranged for Ella and Samantha to do the Office kitchen work alone
so Ella has commenced."
21 Aug Julia McNally has come back here to live.
25 Aug Our friend Eastman came out to meeting, the first time since he was hurt.
24 Sept Henry George took C. Copley to Albany. "In getting out of the wagon he slipped
and fell and broke his leg."
28 Sept Samantha has been : in the kitchen 3 months and Ella two. Ihey expect to
stay for the present.
2 Oct Eldresses Ann and Polly starch caps for the sisters in Phila;delphia.
4 Oct A girl by the name of Paulina Hans came from Albany and wanted to stay.
8 Oct Joanna Myers* mother came for a visit.
14 Oct Last public meeting for the season. So^jt) excitement caUSED BY A DOG GETTING
among the sheep.
23 Oct Received an order from Oneida Community for 300 cases of tomatoes.
19 Dec Henry George goes to Schenectady and takes the two hired broommakers with
him to get their broom material.
28 Dec Philip paid the taxes -$
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