Issachar Bates
Subtitle: a Shaker's journey
By: Carol Medlicott
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781611684193; 9781611684346
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Composers; Shakers; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-413) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. "Now here's my faith I'll speak it plain"; title: "Signs and wonders" : early life, spiritual preparation, and the coming of the Shakers; title: "Take the bloody track of war" : A fifer in the American Revolution; title: "I'm journeying with those who I love in the flesh" : Issachar Bates as husband and provider; title: "A testimony as hot as flames" : Shaker conversion and early travels; title: "Like God's hunters" : seeking kindred in the West; title: "Thorns and thistles did abound" : the growth of the Shaker West; title: "What trials yet before us lay?" : Tribulation on the Wabash; title: "And with much animation we lived at Busro" : an elder in Indiana; title: "Remnant of the tribe of Issachar" : the Bates kinship network in the Shaker East; title: "The cockatrice still wants a place in Zion's lovely regions" : transformations in the Shaker West; title: "Tribulation worketh patience" : a bitter close in the West; title: "So I'll relinquish all demands" : journey's end at New Lebanon; title: Epilogue. "Elder Issachar seems to be continually at hand"; title: Appendix 1. Bates family tree; title: Appendix 2. Songs and poems by Issachar Bates; title: Appendix 3. Songs by Issachar Bates's children.