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Title	Stephen Ball manuscripts; diary
Subject	Religion in Ohio Daily Life Shakers
Place	New Haven (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio) Watervliet (Ohio) Dayton (Ohio) Montgomery County (Ohio)
Description	The opening four pages of the diary of Stephen Ball, a member of the Whitewater, Ohio Shaker community, are digitized here. It includes a prayer and song, "Rejection of Bondage" that may have been written by Ball. The book measures 3.65" x 6" (9.27 x 15.24 cm). Stephen Ball was one of a group of one hundred Millerites who joined the Whitewater Community of Shakers at New Haven in Hamilton County, Ohio after the prophecies of William Miller failed to come true. Many of the families had given away all of their belongings in anticipation of the Resurrection, and were destitute. They joined the Shaker community and proved to be hard working, earnest additions to the community. Ball served as an elder at various times in both the Whitewater and Watervliet (near Dayton) Shaker communities. One of his two daughters, Fanny, left Watervliet with another member, Ephraim Frost and married him. 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.
Creator	Ball, Stephen
Date of Original	1846
Collection	Shakers Collection http://www.dayton.lib.oh.us/archives/shakers.htm (for more information on the Shakers Collection)
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts) Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om213_922868_022
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_922868_022.tif
Image Height	2520
Image Width	1480
File Size	276.868 KB
Full Text	Stephen W. Ball STEPHEN BALL HIS BOOK in union with his brethren and sisters

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