NOTE 



AN ACCOUNT OF THE ADONI-SHOMO COMMUNITY 



From the Springfield Republican. (1876.) 

 As queer a people as are often met, and apparently as 

 upright and religious, withal, are the Community sit 

 uated on the stage-road between Athol and Petersham, 

 and commonly known thereabouts as &quot; Howlandites &quot; 

 or &quot; Fullerites.&quot; According to their account, nearly 

 twenty-one years ago, two Worcester women, Mrs. Sa 

 rah J. Hervey and her sister, Caroline E. Hawks, had 

 come to hope for a divine revelation to them, and in ex 

 pectation of it had gone to a camp-meeting at Groton. 

 Entering the meeting they heard a stranger &quot; talking 

 in tongues,&quot; who proved to be the man to meet their 

 wants, in the person of Frederick T. Rowland, a Qua 

 ker, of good social standing, from New Bedford. That 

 day, September 15, 1855, was the origin &quot; in the faith,&quot; 

 though not in temporal association, of the Community, 

 these three being the &quot; pioneers,&quot; as Sister Hervey takes 

 pride in calling herself and associates. Mrs. Hervey s 

 husband died a year or two later, though not in the 

 faith, &quot; these things,&quot; as they say, &quot; having been beyond 

 him.&quot; Soon after, the new belief received the addi 

 tion of eight persons from Athol, among them Leonard 

 C. Fuller, the present Spiritual head of the Community, 



