The John Noyes collection. 18??-

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The John Noyes collection. 18??-

This collection contains printed materials written by Noyes concerning the Oneida Community.

.5 linear feet.

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Oneida community

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The Oneida Community was a utopian commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in the town of Oneida in Madison County, New York. Noyes, born in Vermont in 1811, attended Dartmouth College, Andover Theological Seminary, and Yale Theological College and received his license to preach in 1834. He formed his first utopian community in 1836 in Putney, Vermont, practicing "complex marriage" in which every male was considered married to every female. In 1847 pending arrests for adulter...