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Shaker collection of records concerning the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, 1676-1937

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Union Village, Ohio, 1769-1937 (continued)
ITEM 348f Poetry and notes concerning Richard McNemar, undated
BOX 34 REEL 28 ITEM 348g Notes, mostly on Richard McNemar and Lucy Wright, undated
ITEM 348h Miscellany: letter from Henry C. Blinn, East Canterbury, N.H., 1893; journal of Richard McNemar [?] 1837; notes; and clippings on the "Kentucky Revival" and history of Warren Co., Ohio, 1874
ITEM 348i Notes on Richard McNemar and Eleazar Wright, undated
ITEM 349 Papers of Richard McNemar
ITEM 349a-c Hymns, correspondence, and other papers of Abijah Alley, Worthington Baxter, Chancy Daniels, Matthew Duffy, Milton H. McNemar, S. Parkhurst, Joseph C. Worley, Eleazar Wright, and others, mostly concerning the Shaker communities at Pleasant Hill and South Union, Ky., and Union Village, Ohio, 1818-1838, 1851, undated
(3 folders)
ITEM 349d Vincy McNemar, hymnbook and notes, 1903, undated
BOX 35 REEL 28 ITEM 350a "Sketch of the life and experience of Issachar Bates," undated, and miscellany, 1832, 1905, undated
ITEM 350b-o Hymns, prayers, testimonies, spiritual communications, proclamation, and notes on Abigail Clark, Andrew and Matthew Houston, Garner McNemar, Daniel Miller, Daniel Moseley, and other Shakers, circa 1823-1905
(9 folders)
BOX 35 REEL 29 ITEM 351a Writings and notes on Shaker theology and history, 1909, undated
ITEM 351b Correspondence between Shakers in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, including Ruth Farrington, Solomon King, Richard McNemar, Peter Pease, Samuel Rollins, Benjamin S. Youngs, and elders, possibly in New Lebanon, N.Y., 1807-1821; and miscellaneous notes, 1813-1905
(1 vol.)
ITEM 351c-d Notes and copies of spiritual communications of David Darrow, Ruth Farrington, Ann Lee, William Lee, Mother Wisdom, Lucy Wright, and others, circa 1807-1905
BOX 36 REEL 29 ITEM 352a Correspondence, mostly to Charles Clapp at Union Village, Ohio, and notes, 1888-1891, undated
ITEM 352b Miscellaneous notes and printed matter, 1898-1904, undated
Correspondence, notes, hymns, spiritual communications, clippings, and printed matter, circa 1838-1904
ITEM 352c (1 folder)
BOX 36
REEL 30
ITEM 352d
(1 folder)
ITEM 353a Poem and notes on mob, 1810, robbery, 1809, and Vincy McNemar's note on her father, Richard McNemar, 1871
ITEM 353b Poem and notes on mob of 1817 and other matters, undated
ITEM 353c A Brief Exposition of the Established Principles, and Regulations of the United Society of Believers Called Shakers (Albany, 1830; reprinted, Watervliet, Ohio, 1832. 36 pp.) and handwritten copy. "An address to the State of Ohio, protesting against a certain of the militia law," 1818. Letter from Susanna Cole Liddell to H. B. Monroe, 1896, and miscellaneous notes, 1901, undated
BOX 37 REEL 30 Miscellaneous writings and research material including notes, correspondence, hymns, poems, clippings, and printed matter, 1813-1892, undated
ITEM 353d (2 folders)
ITEM 354 Miscellaneous writings and research material including notes, correspondence, hymns, poems, clippings, and printed matter, 1823-1905, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 38 REEL 31 Financial accounts, indenture, notes on property, diet, physiology, children, houses, John Dunlavy, extracts from the journal of Peter Pease, a diary [of Malinda Watts?], poetry, community in Busro, Ind., and other material, 1813, 1827-1828, 1836-1841, 1850-1866, 1881-1882, 1895-1908, 1937, undated
ITEM 355 (13 folders)
BOX 38-40 REEL 31-32 ITEM 356-370 Addition, 1806-1905
Correspondence, hymns, prayers, spiritual communications, recipes and instructions, scrapbook, bibliography, and other writings.
Arranged numerically.
BOX 38 REEL 31 ITEM 356 Miscellany: newspaper accounts of a vision, apparently from the Raleigh (N.C.) Register and North Carolina State Gazette, 1806; correspondence, 1825; and a hymn, undated
ITEM 357 Letter from Seth Y. Wells [?] at New Lebanon, N.Y., to Eleazar Wright at Union Village, Ohio, 1831
ITEM 358 "A book concerning the use of strong drink, tobacco, swine's flesh, etc.," 1841
BOX 39 REEL 31 ITEM 359 "Divine instructions from Holy Mother Wisdom; also various communications from the Holy Angels. Church at Harvard, 1841"
ITEM 360 "Inspired anthems. Given on gold plates; Aug. 30 1846, Union Village, Ohio," Charles D. Hampton
ITEM 361 "A hymn book containing a collection of ancient hymns, recorded by Paulina Bryant, Pleasant Hill, June 1854."
BOX 39 REEL 32 ITEM 362 Evening prayer and poem for children, undated
ITEM 363 Writings including directions for using and preparing vegetable medicines, food, copies of letters, extracts from sermons, and other material, circa 1840-1845
(1 vol.)
ITEM 364 "Receipts and practical instructions upon blue dyeing, written Aug. 1854, by Abigail Crossman," and copies of letters and other writings, 1854-1875
BOX 40 REEL 32 Recipes for marking steel or iron, mending kettles, making soap, and other items, 1860[?]
ITEM 365 (1 vol.)
ITEM 366 Recipes for food, undated
(1 vol.)
ITEM 367 Letters, mostly to David Meacham and the elders at New Lebanon, N.Y., from Betsey Bates, Luther Coply, Garret Lawrence [?], Eleanor Potter, Hannah Reed, Seth Y. Wells [?], and others from Enfield and Canterbury, N.H.; Alfred and Hancock, Maine; Union Village, Ohio; and Watervliet, N.Y. [?], 1833-1837
ITEM 368 Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1858. Agriculture. (Washington: James B. Steedman, 1859. 551 pp.), used as a scrapbook for clippings, circa 1878-1886
ITEM 369 Scrapbook, circa 1832-1845
(1 vol.)
ITEM 370 A Bibliography of Shaker Literature, by John Patterson MacLean (Columbus, Ohio, Fred J. Heer, 1905. 71 pp.), heavily annotated
BOX OV 1-OV 2 Oversize, 1807-1858
Correspondence (photocopies) and a watercolor painting.
Arranged and described by item number and according to the series and containers from which the items were removed.
BOX OV 1 REEL 6 ITEM 107-118 Correspondence, photostatic copies (Container 8)
BOX OV 2 REEL 8 ITEM 135 Watercolor painting, "A gift and roll from Holy Mother Wisdom . . . , 1858" (Container 9)

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