The constitution of the United Societies of Believers (called Shakers)
Subtitle: containing sundny [i.e. sundry] covenants and art[i]cles of agre[e]ment, definitive of the legal grounds of the institution.
Contributors: McNemar, Richard, 1770-1839.; MacLean, J. P. 1848-1939, former owner.; Shaker Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1833
Place of publication: Watervliet, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Shakers -- Government.
Notes: Purchased from J.P. MacLean in 1906.
MacLean, J.P.  Shaker lit., 14
McKinstry, E.R.  Andrews Shaker Coll., 319
Checklist Amer. Imprints, 21165
Richmond, M.L.H.  Shaker lit., 911
In various pagings; Compiled by Richard McNemar.
"What the contents or the sequence of pamphlets was originally intended to be cannot be discerned. Examination of several copies has revealed only two copies which correspond, but these lacked some pamphlets contained in other copies"--Richmond.
Includes (besides the covenants of 1810, 1812, 1814, 1818, 1829, 1830): A revision and confirmation of the social compact of the United Society called Shakers, at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky ... Harrodsburg, Ky., Printed by Randall and Jones, 1830 (with special t.p.)  Circular epistle (signed: From the ministry and elders.  New-Lebanon, September 1, 1829)  General rules of the United Society, and summary articles of mutual agreement and release : ratified and confirmed by the society at Watervliet, Montgomery County Ohio, January 1833.  An improved edition of the church covenant, or constitution of the United societies, called Shakers ... Dayton (Ohio) 1833 (with special t.p.)  A brief exposition of the established principles and regulations of the United Society of Believers called Shakers.  Printed at Albany, in the year 1830; and now reprinted with sundry improvements suggested by the author ... Watervliet, O. 1832 (with special t.p.)