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An engaging social history and introduction to the Shakers as both individuals and members of a movement.

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title:Shaker Communities, Shaker Lives
author:Brewer, Priscilla J.
publisher:University Press of New England
isbn10 | asin:0874514002
print isbn13:9780874514001
ebook isbn13:9780585275659
language:English
subjectShakers--United States.
publication date:1988
lcc:BX9766.B74 1988eb
ddc:289/.8
subject:Shakers--United States.
Page iii
Shaker Communities, Shaker Lives
Priscilla J. Brewer
Shaker communities Shaker lives - image 2
University Press of New England
Hanover and London
Page iv
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND
Brandeis University
University of Connecticut
University of Rhode Island
Brown University
Dartmouth College
Tufts University
Clark University
University of New Hampshire
University of Vermont
1986 by University Press of New England
All rights reserved. Except for brief quotation in critical articles or reviews, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For further information contact University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755.
Printed in the United States of America
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Brewer, Priscilla J.
Shaker communities, Shaker lives.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. ShakersUnited States. I. Title.
BX9766. B74 1986 289'.8 85-40930
ISBN 0-87451-362-6
ISBN 0-87451-400-2 (pbk.)
Text Credits
Courtesy of Hancock Shaker Village, Inc., Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Isaac N. Youngs, Names and Ages of those who have been gathered into the church; Alonzo G. Hollister, Book of the Busy Hours; New Lebanon Church Family Account Book (181729); Hancock Church Family Daybook (18371913); New Lebanon Second Order Farm Journal; New Lebanon Journal of Domestic Events and Transactions; Giles B. Avery, Book of Records; Franklin Barber and Philemon Stewart, A Journal of Garden Accounts; Grove Blanchard, Diary; William Calver et al., School Journal; and Asenath Clark, Ministerial Journal.
Courtesy of Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio: WRHS I A 6, 7, 8, 10; I B 37, 46, 82; II A 17; II B 98; III A 2, 8, 14; III B 13; IV A 136, 42, 44; IV B 35, 36, 37; V A 14; V B 19, 58, 59, 6061, 6371, 80, 84, 85, 90, 92, 93, 97, 98, 104126, 128, 130, 131, 132, 135, 136, 137, 139, 140, 149, 228, 250; VI A 2, 4, 11 VI B 7, 1013, 24, 27, 29, 3637, 51; VII A 6; VII B 22, 59, 61, 107, 109, 113, 133, 258, 266, 267, 270, 270a, 271, 274, 289; and X B 1.
Courtesy, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, The Edward Deming Andrews Memorial Shaker Collection, Winterthur, Delaware: SA 748, 750, 756, 760, 763, 766, 770, 772, 774, 776, 779, 780, 783, 789, 792, 795, 797, 799.1, 800, 802, 803, 805, 810, 817, 818, 823, 827, 829, 834, 894, 977, 979, 980, 981, 1030, 1031, 1066, 1077, 1220, 1257, 1261, 1262, 1340, and 1548.
Courtesy of New York State Library, Albany, New York: A2903.
Courtesy of American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts: Thomas Hammond, Harvard Church Family Record (17911853) in Harvard, Massachusetts, Shaker Church Records, 17901875.
Courtesy of The Shaker Museum, Old Chatham, New York: #8831; 10,509; 10,803; 10,804; and 13,357.
Reprinted from The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XV (1984), Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, with permission of the editors of The Journal of Interdisciplinary History and the MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Copyright 1984 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editors of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
Page v
For my parents
William Dodd Brewer and Alice Van Ess Brewer
Page vi
Picture 3
Let Zion's children praise the Lord,
Yea, sound His holy name.
Let Wisdom ever be adored,
Her goodness now proclaim.
Picture 4
Let freedom wave her golden wing,
Her scepter gently bow.
Jerusalem, arise and sing,
The victory is now.
Picture 5
Shaker spiritual,
Hancock, Massachusetts,
circa 1850
Page viii
Contents
Preface
ix
Glossary of Shaker Terms
xv
1
Scarcely Any Sensible Preaching (17741784)
1
2
A Sect of Some Continuance (17841796)
13
3
Bait to Catch Good Gospel Fish (17961821)
30
4
Our Precious Good Elders
43
5
How Can I Help Being Happy?
65
6
Numbers Are Not the Thing for Us to Glory in (18211837)
87
7
Whirlwind, Earthquake and Fire (18371844)
115
8
Bad Fish Caught in the Gospel Net (18441858)
136
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