Mount Lebanon, N.Y. miscellaneous records, 1780-1928.

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Mount Lebanon, N.Y. miscellaneous records, 1780-1928.

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Deeds, mortgages, leases, surveys, letters, and other real estate records, 1788-1926, concerning land in Michigan, Chicago, and New York City, as well as New York State. Agreements, bills, receipts, accounts, bonds, inventories, and letters concerning business matters, 1780-1928, including investments, the Dayton (Ohio) Furnace Company, gold prospecting in the Klondike, and Benjamin Gates' guardianship of Miriam E. Watson and Augustus Watson. Letters of F.W. Brydsall, Frederick Evans, Benjamin Gates, Isaac Youngs, and Robert White, Jr. concerning control of the gypsy moth population, women in religion, religious duties, Shaker theology, marriage and sexual union, the Quakers, spiritualism, and other topics, 1807-1870. Letter, accounts, and legal papers from the suit over the property of James Boardman who came to the Shakers from the Insane Asylum of Brattleboro, Vt., 1861-1867. Religious writings, ca. 1790-1870, and Shaker circulars on religious duties and guidelines, ca. 1850-1873. Unsigned letters objecting to Shakers and their beliefs, ca. 1840s. Petitions, letters, and memorials concerning the Shaker opposition to military conscription, 1816-1863.

ca. 1.5 cubic ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Watson, Augustus.

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Evans, F. W. 1808-1893.

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Boardman, James, active 19th century

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White, Robert, Jr.

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Brydsall, F. W.

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Watson, Miriam

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Youngs, Isaac N.

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Gates, Benjamin

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Dayton Furnace Company (Dayton, Ohio)

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