Shaker correspondence, 1827-1955.

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Shaker correspondence, 1827-1955.

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Correspondence from Mount Lebanon and Watervliet, N.Y., Shirley and Harvard, Mass., Canterbury, N.H., Sabbathday Lake, Me., and other Shaker communities from many individuals. Includes letters from Harvard, Mass., covering many topics including the death of Brother John Orsment, a missionary tour to Vermont, and the exemption from bearing arms during the Civil War; letters from Mount Lebanon, N.Y., including correspondence from Eldress M. Catherine Allen to Clara Endicott Sears detailing Allen's contributions to the Fruitlands Shaker museum, letters from Josephine Jilson to Sears discussing the Harvard Shaker cemetery and the relocation of Shaker sisters, and letters from some of the relocated sisters discussing M. Catherine Allen, Shaker songs, and the departure of Sister Lottie Tremper from the Mount Lebanon community; and letters (1932-1938) from Prudence Stickney, of Sabbathday Lake, Me., to Clara Endicott Sears, chiefly concerning donations to the Fruitlands Museums. Also includes correspondence of Rose Morse, Susan Wentworth, and Olive Chandler, of Shirley, Mass.; letters (1 v., 1845-1850) from the community at Enfield, N.H., including details of a fire; and volume of letters (1853-1856) originating at Harvard, copied by Thomas Hammond, including correspondence of Giles B. Avery and Joshua Bussell and a letter (1862) from James Prescott to William Leonard describing the troubles at Pleasant Hill, Ky., during the Civil War.

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Fruitlands Museums (Harvard, Mass.)

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Tremper, Lottie

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Sanderson, Gertrude

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Chandler, Olive F., 1813-1887

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Sears, Clara Endicott, 1863-1960

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Avery, Giles B. (Giles Bushnell), 1815-1890

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Shaker, of Mount Lebanon, N.Y. From the description of A brief illustration of the principles on which the United Society is founded, ca. 1860. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 31817504 From the description of A brief illustration of the principles on which the United Society is founded, ca. 1860. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80568930 Mount Lebanon, N.Y. Shaker. From the description of Diary, 1843. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155494181 Giles ...

Stickney, Prudence Asenath, 1860-1950

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Eldress of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker community in New Gloucester, Maine. From the description of Shaker cookbook and letter, [ca. 1920] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155485935 Eldress of the Sabbathday Lake Shakers in Maine. From the description of Papers, 1936-1949. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17383264 Shaker eldress, of Sabbathday Lake, Me. From the description of Poems, 1882. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 7093822...

Allen, M. Catherine

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Bussell, Joshua H., 1816-1900

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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...

Hammond, Thomas, 1791-1880

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Orsment, John

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Prescott, James, 1803-

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Fruitlands Museums (Harvard, Mass.)

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Morse, Rose

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Wentworth, Susan J.

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Leonard, William, -1877

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Jilson, Josephine

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