The Ellen G. White Letters and Manuscripts: Volume 1

CLAFLIN, Nancy J. (née HILDRETH) (1814-1899) and (first husband) John Post (?-1841) and (second husband) Andrew Claflin (1814-1877)

Nancy Claflin, born in Vermont, lived for many years in Norfolk, New York; after Andrew's death, she lived in Bloomington, Illinois. Nancy Claflin became a Sabbatarian Adventist about 1852. The enthusiasm she had for her faith is shown in fervent letters to the Review and a long series of receipts for her subscriptions to the church paper. Her obituary in 1899 has the heading “Had Read Every Number of the Review.” Ellen White mentioned that Nancy Claflin attended some meetings held by the Whites in Buck's Bridge, New York, in 1859. Little is known about Andrew Claflin, who, Nancy reports, had joined her in keeping the Sabbath by 1853. 1EGWLM 809.2

See: Obituary: “Nancy J. Claflin,” Review, Dec. 26, 1899, p. 844; John Goodwin Locke, Book of the Lockes: A Genealogical and Historical Record of the Descendants of William Locke, of Woburn, With an Appendix Containing a History of the Lockes in England, and Also of the Family of John Locke, of Hampton, N.H., and Kindred Families and Individuals (Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1853), p. 154; Charles Henry Wight, Genealogy of the Claflin Family, Being a Record of Robert Mackclothian, of Wenham, Mass., and of His Descendants 1661-1898 (New York: Press of William Green, [1903]), pp. 144; 1850 U.S. Federal Census, “Andrew Claflin,” New York, St. Lawrence County, Norfolk, p. 154; 1870 U.S. Federal Census, “Andrew Claflin,” New York, St. Lawrence County, Norfolk, p. 1; Nancy Claflin, “From Sister Claflin,” Review, June 23, 1853, p. 24; Nancy Claflin, “From Sr. Claflin,” Review, Jan. 1, 1857, p. 71; Ellen G. White, Ms 8, 1859 (Oct. 19 entry). 1EGWLM 809.3