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American Communities; Brief Sketches of Economy, Zoar, Bethel, Aurora, Amana, Icaria, the Shakers, Oneida, Wallingford and the Brotherhood of the New

American Communities; Brief Sketches of Economy, Zoar, Bethel, Aurora, Amana, Icaria, the Shakers, Oneida, Wallingford and the Brotherhood of the New

Hinds, William Alfred

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ISBN10: 1458805271
ISBN13: 9781458805270
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.11 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1878. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... the sua kjsrs. the Shakers have seventeen Societies, and a total membership of about 2,400. Each Society is divided into two or more Families, which are in respect to property and other matters distinct from one another; so that there may be said to be fifty-seven different Shaker Communities, or fifty-eight if we include the Family of twenty colored persons in Philadelphia. The Shakers first landed in the United States on the sixth of August, 1774; the first settlement was commenced at Watervliet in 1776; the first completed Community was Mt. Lebanon, which began its organization in 1787. Previous to 1792 two Societies had been formed in New York, four in Massachusetts, one in Connecticut, two in New Hampshire, and two in Maine. Between 1805 and 1807 two Societies were formed in Ohio, one in Indiana, and two in Kentucky. Between 1822 and 1827 two Societies were formed in Ohio, and one in New York. The Indiana Society was broken up on account of unhealthy climatic conditions, and the Tyringham Society of Massachusetts more recently and for other causes. These Societies had at one time a population of more than double their present number, reaching an aggregate of between five and six thousand souls. The largest Society is Mount Lebanon, with a membership of about 375. Watervliet, N. Y., Union Village, Ohio, and Pleasant Hill and South Union, Ky., have each between two and three hundred members. Watervliet, O., Groveland, N. Y., and Shirley, Mass., are the smallest, having only about fifty members each. They all have large home farms, ranging from one thousand acres upward, and many of them own additional tracts of land in the Western and Southern States. A single Family of one of the New York Societies a few years ago bought thirty thousand acres in Kentucky. It...

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