Diary. 1834-1836.

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Diary. 1834-1836.

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Diary chronicles life at the New Lebanon, New York, Shaker community between November 1, 1834 and December 18, 1836. Clark's daily entries are customarily brief, one to three lines, unless she is describing events or making observations that are important to her. Clark writes about the exhumation and reburial of Ann Lee and Lee's brother, William, on May 11, 1834, discusses the theft of mail, and comments that the Shakers were sometimes tempted to turn away children that parents wanted to leave in their care. She also recounts how the Shakers told a couple who had earlier left the community to get married that they could not return after having second thoughts about what they had done. The man, and by extension the woman, "had made his own garment & he must now wear it." Final page, loose from the text block, contains a list of 21 Shaker women whose last names began with B (Hannah Beacher through Ann Blanchard) with their birth dates and places.

[94] p. ; 19 cm.

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United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing.

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Clark, Asenath, 1780-1857.

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Asenath Clark was born on January 15, 1780 in Granby, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and she died at the New Lebanon, New York, Shaker community on December 19, 1857, less than one month shy of her seventy-eighth birthday. Clark signed the covenant on June 24, 1801 and eventually became a family deaconess in the First Order. She participated in carpet making at New Lebanon. With Ebenezer and Rufus Bishop and Polly Landon, Clark exercised society leadership from 1821-1848, serving as assistant ...