The Harvard Settlement was the second Shaker community in the United States and the first in Massachusetts.
How these Kendall's came to be devotees of the Shaker Religious Movement is still a mystery to us. Little personal information is found regarding members, but from what we have found Hannah Kendall may have been, at least for a time, in a leadership role at the Harvard Settlement. Her sister Sarah it appears was involved with a Shaker Settlement in Maine.
Hannah resided at Harvard with her brother Nathan Kendall.
Hannah Kendall
b. abt 1761
d. August 18, 1816
Buried at Shaker Village Cemetery, Harvard, MA
Daughter of Nathan Kendall [b.1723 Woburn] and Sarah (White) Kendall
Nathan Kendall
b. abt. 1756
d. March 11, 1845
Buried at Shaker Village Cemetery, Harvard, MA
Son of Nathan Kendall [b.1723 Woburn] and Sarah (White) Kendall
Sarah Kendall
b. abt. 1739
d. February 8, 1832 AE 93
Buried at Shaker Village Cemetery, Harvard, MA
Perhaps Hannah's sister??
Susan C. Kendall
b. abt. 1807
d. May 9, 1882 AE 75
Lineage unknown
William Kendall
b. abt. 1811
d. November 8, 1823 AE 12
Lineage Unknown
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