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1845-1852 Harvard Sisters Journal 1828-1838 Harvard Church Family Journal/Daybook 1840-1843 Harvard Church Family Daybook 1820-1826 Three Daybooks of Joseph Hammond 1791-1806 Harvard Journal and Manifest Record 1859-1880 Alfred Collier Journal 1843-1860 Shirley Church Journal Elisha Myrick Herb Journal, Winterthur Grove Blanchard Journal 1836-39, WRHS Olive Hatch Ministry Journal, WRHS Journal Record Of the South and East Family, WRHS 1850-1852 Herb Department Daybook by Elisha Myrick 1853-1867 Deaconess Journal 1855-1857 Eiza Babbit Journal 1864 Diary of Elder Grove Blanchard 1863-1873 Olive Chandler Journal Journals available online

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The Harvard and Shirley Shaker villages formed a bishopric and shared ministry elders. There was always a close relationship between the two villages.

Journals available online Harvard: Dates range from 1791 to 1911. (See also John Whiteley Journals under Shirley.) 1791-1806 Journal and Manifest Record. (1.7) available online 1820-1826 Three Daybooks of Joseph Hammond. (1.10) available online 1828-1838 Harvard Church Family Journal/Daybook. (4.2) available online 1837-1867 Account book, 385 pp. (32.3) 1838-1841 "A Journal kept by Augustus H. Grosvenor on the Church farm in Harvard, 1838". 122 pp. (32-5) 1840-1843 Harvard Church Family Daybook. (2.3) available online 1843-1845 Harvard Church Family Daybook. Daily entries, work, weather, worship, and visits. (4.3) 1843-1848 Shaker Journal. Details comings and goings, visits and visitors. (Charles Lane visit) (2.5) 1845-1847 Harvard Church Family Daybook. Work, weather, worship, and visits. (2.4) 1845-1852 Sisters. Journal. Details of job assignments, and daily doings. (1.11) available online 1848-1876 Day Book [by Elisha Myrick and others]. 357 numbered pp. (32-4) 1850-1852 "Daybook kept for the Use & Convenience of the Herb Department by Elisha Myrick". (31.1) available online 1853-1867 "A Journal of the Domestic Work Performed by the Sisters; In the Church at Harvard Mass. Kept by the Deaconesses." Commencing Dec 1st 1853 . Book No. 4,. 288 pp. (31.2) available online 1855-1857 Eiza Babbit Journal – Office Sister Journal. Pages not numbered. (31.3) available online 1859-1880 Shaker Journal. This volume contains two Journals. The first dates from 1859 to 1861 and was kept by Alfred Collier. The second dates from 1872 to 1880 and was kept by Susan Channel. The journal begins 1872 when she is demoted from leadership then picks up again in 1879, when she writes on 1/1/1879 "I am 70 to day". (2.2) available online 1860-1884 Olive Chandler Journal. The first half is a record of correspondence dating 1860 to 1867. The remainder of the volume is a daily record dating from 1882 to 1884. (not microfilmed) 1863-1873 Olive Chandler Journal. Daily entries, work, weather, and observations. (32.7) available online 1864 Diary of Elder Grove Blanchard. [388 pp.] + 8 undated pp. (31.4) available online 1866-1867 Diary of Elder Grove Blanchard. (31-5) 1867-1869 John Whitely's Diary. Three volumes (31.6, 31.7, 31.8) 1867-1876 Journal of the domestic work of the sisters In the Church Family. (2.1) 1870 "A Theological Epistle addressed to Elder Giles B. Avery of N.Y. by Elder William Leonard [of] Harvard , Mass. 1870"; 190 pp. (32-2) 1875-1880 "A Diary of Events Kept by the Elder Sisters Commencing in the year 1875 On the 25th of April";. 169 stamped pp., writing stops on p. 111. (32.1) 1893-1911 Shaker Journal. The first part of the volume was kept by Maria Foster. After her death in 1897 Annie L. Walker kept the journal until her death in 1911. The journal records comings, goings, visits, and etc. (3.2) available online 1905 John Whitely Shirley Account Book circa. (32.6)   Shirley: Dates range from 1843 to 1899. 1843-1860 Church Journal. "Kept for the purpose of briefly recording an account of the meetings, gifts of inspiration, and various operations of the spiritual work of God in the Church of Shirley." (6.1, 6.2 typescript available online) 1859-1862 Church Family Daybook. Records work schedules, comings and goings. Kept by Samuel Augustus Burns and tends to focus on farming. (6.4) 1863-1869 Church Family Daybook. Work schedules, comings, and goings, etc. (6.5) 1870-1873 Church Family Daybook. Includes arrivals, departures, and weather. (6.6) 1871-1881 Daybook. Includes comings and goings, work, things bought and sold, plan of a duck pond. Pages 3-5 record purchases and sales 1865-1875. (7.1) 1881 Diary of John Whiteley, a ministry elder in the Harvard-Shirley bishopric. Harvard stays are included. (10.1) 1882 Diary of John Whiteley. Includes Harvard. (10.2) 1882-1894 Daybook and Sisters' Journal. (7.2) 1883 Diary of John Whiteley. Several long stays in Harvard included. (10.3) 1884 Diary of John Whiteley. (10.4) 1885 Diary of John Whiteley. Details of trade and administration. (10.5) 1886 Diary of John Whiteley. Includes travels to New York and trips to Boston and Fitchburg. School committee members and deaths recorded on back pages. (10.6) 1887 Diary of John Whiteley. Work, weather, deaths recorded. (11.1) 1888 Diary of John Whiteley. (11.2) 1895 Diary of John Whiteley. (11.3) 1899 Diary of John Whiteley. (11.4) Shaker Journals from other institutions available here online Elisha Myrick Herb Journal (manuscript from Winterthur Collection), 1853-1855 (Partial) Journal Record Of the South and East Family (manuscript from WRHS Reel 30 V. 35), 1807-1854 Grove Blanchard (manuscript from WRHS), 1836-1839 Olive Hatch Ministry Journal (manuscript from WRHS, Reel 39, V. 218), September 27, 1851 - July 21, 1854. Journal of Alfred Collier (manuscript from WRHS Reel 39 V.219) 1856-1859 Olive Hatch Ministry Journal (manuscript from WRHS Reel 31 V.54) 1856-57

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