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Order Book of the South Family Shakers

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Title	Order Book of the South Family Shakers
Subject	Religion in Ohio Daily Life Shakers
Place	Watervliet (Ohio) Dayton (Ohio) Montgomery County (Ohio)
Description	This book, "Orders for the Church of Christ's Second Appearing" was established by the Ministry and Elders of the Church in Mount Lebanon, New York in 1887 and adopted by the Shaker community at Watervliet, Ohio in 1888. It includes rules of conduct for social interaction between members of the community as well as instructions for worship. The book is approximately 47 pages long and measures 4.7" x 7.12" (11.94 x 18.08 cm). The history of the Shakers in Ohio begins in 1805 with the arrival of three Shaker missionaries from Mt. Lebanon, New York at Turtle Creek in Warren County. The Presbyterian community at Turtle Creek, led by their pastor Richard McNemar, adopted Shakerism within a few days and changed the name of the settlement to Union Village. Twenty-two miles to the northeast, in Van Buren Township in Montgomery County, a sister Presbyterian congregation existed called Beulah. In 1806, two of the Mt. Lebanon missionaries, Benjamin Youngs and Issachar Bates, were invited to preach at Beulah. As a result, most of the congregation became Shakers. In 1813 the community, occupying 800 acres of farmland, was formally renamed Watervliet Village in honor of the first Shaker home in the New World in Watervliet, New York. The settlement consisted approximately 100 individuals at its peak and about 55 when it disbanded in 1900. Other Shaker communities in Ohio included Union Village in Warren County and North Union in present-day Shaker Heights.
Date of Original	1888
Collection	Shakers Collection http://www.dayton.lib.oh.us/archives/shakers.htm (for more information on the Shakers Collection)
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts)
Submitting Institution	Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om213_922911_027
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om213_922911_027.tif
Image Height	2800
Image Width	1832
File Size	588.917 KB
Full Text	[corresponds to cover of Order Book] Order Book [drawing] South Family. [drawing] Shakers. [Whitewater, O., community] [drawing] [See t.-p. following] 1888 [drawing]

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