[Manuscripts relating to court cases]. 1845-1858.

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[Manuscripts relating to court cases]. 1845-1858.

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This group of manuscripts deals chiefly with litigation concerning the Shakers and some of their apprentices. Prominent among the names of those involved in suits against the New Lebanon, N.Y., community is that of William H. Pillow, who wanted the Shakers to release one of his sons from their custody. Pillow had entered into an agreement with the New Lebanon Shakers whereby the Shakers would provide a home for and teach a trade to his son. In an effort to get his child back, Pillow argued that the indenture was invalid because it did not specify which trade. He also charged the Shakers with "inculcating [in children] civil and religious principles of an immoral and mischievious tendency." Claudius L. Morrell was the lawyer who represented the Shakers in several cases, including the Pillow suit; a bill from him is one of the items in this folder. One document lists the payments to be made to members of the Gildersleeve family and others. On August 26, 1845, Lucinda Minerva Reynolds of New York attested that her husband Alonzo had deserted her and their child in January 1842. In another desertion case, William M. Fee of Albany attested that Eliza Caldwell and her family had been deserted by her husband Robert nine years previous to the date of the document, March 17, 1857. Presumably, these two women joined the Shakers after being deserted. An undated document gives some facts in a case about non-payment of wages to a minor who worked for the Shakers in 1858.

9 items ; 20-32 cm.

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Morrell, Claudius L.

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