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Published in cooperation with HANCOCK SHAKER VILLAGE, INC.
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Shaker Cities of Peace, Love, and Union
A History of the Hancock Bishopric
Deborah E. Burns
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND Hanover and London
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University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 1993 by University Press of New England Appendix 1992 by Deborah E. Burns All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 CIP data appear at the end of the book
"Living Souls, Let's Be Marching," page vi, quoted from Daniel W. Patterson, The Shaker Spiritual. Copyright 1979 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
Shaker songs quoted on pages 49, 106, and 128 are from the Collection of the United Society of Shakers, Sabbathday Lake, Maine. Used by permission.
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for Amy Bess
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Living souls, let's be marching On our journey to heaven With our lamps trimmed and burning With the oil of truth. Let us join the heav'nly chorus And unite with our parents. They will lead us to heaven In the path of righteousness. Tyringham, 1853
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Contents
Preface
xi
Introduction A Company of Angels
1
One "Living Souls, Let's Be Marching!"
8
Two "The Path of Righteousness"
20
Three Creating a Community Apart
31
Four "On Earth 'Tis a Heaven": Years of Fervor
49
Five Bearing Fruit
72
Six "Their Precious Mother's Word"
91
Seven "This Hundred Fold Blessing"
106
Eight Challenges from Within
128
Nine "Roll Swiftly On, Remaining Years"
149
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Ten Final Years of the Hancock and Enfield Shakers
169
Epilogue "The Substantial Work of Consecrated Hands"
194
Appendix I Eldership Order, Hancock Ministry
199
Appendix II Eldership of Selected Families of the Hancock Bishopric
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