American Communal Society Quarterly | Vol 14 | No. 4

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Volume 14, Numbers 3 & 4 (July & October 2020)

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From the Editor

“The Price of Blood”: Shaker Revolutionary War Veterans and Military Pensions
Christian Goodwillie

Shaker Revolutionary War Veterans: Pension Narratives and Related Documents

Appendix 1: Shaker Revolutionary War Veterans

Appendix 2: [Petition of Massachusetts Shakers to the State Legislature, 1788.]

Appendix 3: [Father Joseph Meacham’s statement on conscientious objection.]

Appendix 4: [Memoranda Concerning Military Pensions submitted by the New Lebanon and Watervliet, New York, Shaker Communities to the New York State Legislature, 1825.]

Appendix 5: Copy of Statement presented to the Legislature of Massachusetts on behalf of the Societies of Shakers in Harvard and Shirley in said State in February 1840.

Appendix 6: [Richard McNemar’s Memorial to the New Lebanon Ministry concerning Military Pensions, 1833.]

Appendix 7: A few remarks on the subject of Military Pensions. By Freegift Wells

Appendix 8: Names of Pensioners who served in the War of the Revolution and War of 1812 … Shaker … Societies of New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. With amounts of Pensions and Bounty Lands which each one relinquished to government for Conscience sake.

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