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Sawyer, Otis, 1815-1884. A complete register of all the deaths that have occurred in the United Societies of Gorham and New Gloucester, Maine, 1881-1884.

Title: A complete register of all the deaths that have occurred in the United Societies of Gorham and New Gloucester, Maine, 1881-1884.

Records of deaths in the Shaker communities of Gorham, New Gloucester (Sabbathday Lake), and Poland Hill, Me., compiled by Sawyer, with the last two deaths recorded by Eldress Mary Ann Gillespie. Includes an account of Sawyer's last illness and death.

ArchivalResource: 145 p. (p. 10-11, 39-81, 88-145 blank)

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Wentworth, Isaiah. Notes and bills payable - notes and bills receivable, 1860 Apr. 15-1864 July 8.

Title: Notes and bills payable - notes and bills receivable, 1860 Apr. 15-1864 July 8.

Account book, kept by Wentworth, chiefly detailing accounts relating to the saw mill at the Sabbathday Lake, Me., community.

ArchivalResource: 108 p.

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Stewart, Philemon, 1804-1875. Poland book no. 2, 1860-1875.

Title: Poland book no. 2, 1860-1875.

Accounts (1860 Oct. 10-1863 May 20), kept by Stewart at the Poland Hill community, covering Shaker boxes sold, accounts for wine, grapes, and strawberries, Family account, etc.; together with journals (1874 Aug. 30-1875 Feb. 14), kept at Mount Lebanon, including references to the Maine communities and people and also a description of the fire at Mount Lebanon in 1875.

ArchivalResource: 50 p.

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Bangs, Thomas, 1757-1824. Gorham, Me., single-sheet manuscripts, 1779-1819.

Title: Gorham, Me., single-sheet manuscripts, 1779-1819.

Chiefly deeds, town assessment lists, legal documents, promissory notes, correspondence, land plans, and other papers, of/or relating to members of the Shaker community in Gorham, Me. (then in Massachusetts), which in 1819 voted to move to the community at Poland Hill (Poland, Me.).

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70953889 View

Sawyer, Otis, 1815-1884. A record of the appointments and removals ... in New Gloucester and Poland ... from 1794 : (1794-1847), 1847 Nov. 2.

Title: A record of the appointments and removals ... in New Gloucester and Poland ... from 1794 : (1794-1847), 1847 Nov. 2.

Record of appointments and removals, in regular succession, of the elders, deacons, and trustees, of the Church and United Society of Believers (Shakers) in New Gloucester (Sabbathday Lake), Poland, and Gorham, Me., collected and recorded by Sawyer. Includes short preface relating to the gathering into Church Relation order.

ArchivalResource: ca. 100 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70940295 View

Whittaker, James, 1751-1787 (Spirit). Spiritual messages received at New Gloucester & Poland, 1839-1841.

Title: Spiritual messages received at New Gloucester & Poland, 1839-1841.

Copies of communications from the spiritual world, including communications from Jesus Christ, Mother Ann, Father James, Father William, and others, read by Mary Palmer (1839 Oct. 22nd) and Sophia F. Mace (1839 Nov. 2nd), at New Gloucester and Poland (Sabbathday Lake), Me. Other instruments represented include Sarah Holmes, Mary Jane Jones, and Nancy Huzzey.

ArchivalResource: 118 p. (in slipcase)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70940473 View

Wells, Seth Y. (Seth Youngs). Watervliet, N.Y., single-sheet manuscripts, 1832-ca. 1947.

Title: Watervliet, N.Y., single-sheet manuscripts, 1832-ca. 1947.

Correspondence, pamphlets, addresses, deeds, mortgages, inventory, envelopes, poems, certificates, and songs, of/or relating to members of the Shaker community at Watervliet, N.Y. Also includes quitclaim deed (1882 Aug. 17) from Adison Brown to Galen Richmond, agent of the South Family, Watervliet; inventory (1883 Mar.), of stock, etc., belonging to the Second Family, Watervliet; letter (1877 Aug. 25) from G.A. Lomas, Watervliet, to Julia E. Smith, Glastonbury, Conn., relating to the Shaker, a periodical; letters (1898-1899) from Joseph Holden, Albany County, N.Y., to Elder William Dumont, Sabbathday Lake, Me., regarding a visit to the Enfield, Conn., community, where the membership was elderly and ill, advice to someone interested in becoming a Shaker, and the sale of property at Poland Hill, Me.; letters (1932-1936) from Anna Case, Watervliet, to R. Mildred Barker, Sabbathday Lake, reflecting Shaker life, the move from Alfred to Sabbathday Lake, her visit to Alfred, the weather, family matters, and the sisters at Sabbathday Lake; list (1947) of members at Watervliet and their current addresses, including information on Mount Lebanon, N.Y., and Hancock, Mass.; and two songs, with letteral notation entitled "Sweet Union" and "Praise to Mother Ann", including a poem by Austin Buckingham.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

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Notman Photograph Company (Boston, Mass.),. Shaker communities visual materials collection, ca. 1870-1960.

Title: Shaker communities visual materials collection, ca. 1870-1960.

Photographs and postcards of Shaker women and Shaker communities in Mill River, Mass.; Poland Spring and Sabbathday Lake, Me.; Canterbury, N.H.; and Mount Lebanon, N.Y. There are also postcards of Shaker bridges in Enfield, N.H. and from the Shaker Historical Society Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. The photographs date from ca. 1870-1963; the postcards mostly date from ca. 1926-1960. Photographers include Notman Photograph Company of Boston, Mass.; other photographers are unidentified. Include one stereoview and one cabinet card photograph.

ArchivalResource: 4 photographs and 31 postcards in 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61200415 View

Shakers. Poland Hill Community (Poland, Me.). Single-sheet manuscripts, 1819-1887.

Title: Single-sheet manuscripts, 1819-1887.

Chiefly correspondence, deeds, survey, indenture, and other papers, reflecting the history of the community, with a focus on industry during the early years which changed to finances and membership during the later years. Also includes letters (1864 July) from Joseph A. Gilman, Poland to Otis Sawyer, Alfred, relating Poland Hill news, including the move of John and Betsy Kaime to Canterbury, N.H., and the community indebtedness caused by Isaiah Wentworth; diary (1871) of Joseph Gilman; list (1841 July 11) of Alfred Shakers; and extract (1887 June) from the Church journal listing members who moved from Poland Hill to Sabbathday Lake.

ArchivalResource: 38 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70947957 View