Fruitlands Museums Shaker manuscripts, 1770-1955, Bulk 1791-1911.

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Fruitlands Museums Shaker manuscripts, 1770-1955, Bulk 1791-1911.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261228894

This collection contains covenants, laws, legal and land records, financial records, membership records, correspondence, diaries and journals, testimonies and biographies, addresses, sermons, essays, and other inspired writings, music, poetry, recipes and prescriptions, school books and instructional texts, and scrapbooks documenting Shaker activities. Most of the items come from the Shaker communities at Harvard, MA and Shirley, MA. Others come from Mount Lebanon, NY, Watervliet, NY, Canterbury, NH. Enfield, CT, and Enfield, NH.

21 microfilm reels.

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Sears, Clara Endicott, 1863-1960

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Shakers

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The South Union, Kentucky, Shaker Society was located in Logan County, Kentucky, southwest of Bowling Green. From the description of South Union, Kentucky, Shaker Society records, 1769-1922 (1804-1916) [microform]. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 45232375 The United Society of Believers, also known as the Shakers, of South Union, Logan County, Ky., was established by missionaries from Ohio and Upper Kentucky who arrived in the Gaspar River area in 1807. T...