Gorham, Me., single-sheet manuscripts, 1779-1819.

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Gorham, Me., single-sheet manuscripts, 1779-1819.

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Chiefly deeds, town assessment lists, legal documents, promissory notes, correspondence, land plans, and other papers, of/or relating to members of the Shaker community in Gorham, Me. (then in Massachusetts), which in 1819 voted to move to the community at Poland Hill (Poland, Me.).

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United Society of Shakers, Shaker Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8049997

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