Cares & burthens, blunders & failures, projected improvements, errors in business, cases of sickness. 1861-1892.

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Cares & burthens, blunders & failures, projected improvements, errors in business, cases of sickness. 1861-1892.

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F.W. Evans kept this manuscript from November 1861 into 1892. It details what Evans considered to be shortcomings in how the Shakers at New Lebanon and elsewhere lived their lives and administered the Shaker sect. Evans writes critically about carelessness that led to personal injury, lax equipment maintenance, mismanagement that occasioned crop failures, bad business decisions, financial reverses, and other concerns. Every so often, he identifies the people responsible for the problems, either by name or initials. Evans may have maintained this volume to remind himself of problematic Shakers, something that a leader might think was necessary for personnel management, or simply as a record of past wrongdoings that the Shakers needed to be mindful of so they would not be repeated.

[288] p. ; 18 cm.

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United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing.

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Evans, F. W. (Frederick William), 1808-1893

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Frederick W. Evans was born in Leominster, England, in 1808. Along with his brother, George Henry, and his father he emigrated to the United States in 1820, settling in Binghamton, New York. Evans pursued studies in philosophy and literature and with his brother issued a number of working class publications which advocated land rights, the end of imprisonment for debt, equality for women, the abolition of slavery, Sunday mail delivery, and other social causes. Evans joined the Shakers at New Leb...