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in traversing it at once. When they were all arrived, 

 Rapp constituted them into one body, having every 

 thing in common, and called the settlement Harmony. 

 This constitution he found authorised by the passage in 

 Acts, iv. 32. " And the multitude of thenj that believed 

 " were of one heart, and of one soul : neither said any 

 " of them that aught of the things he possessed Mas his 

 " own, hilt that they liad all t/iiiiys contvion." Reing 

 thus associated, the Society went to work, early in 180.5, 

 building houses and clearing lands, according to the 

 order and regulations of their leader ; but the commu- 

 nity of stock, or the regular discipline, or the restraints 

 which he had reduced them to, and which were essen- 

 tial to his project, soon began to thin his I'ollowers, and 

 principally, too, those of them who had brought most 

 substance into the society ; they demanded back their 

 original portions and set out to seek the Lord by them- 

 selves. This falling off of the society, though it was 

 but small, comparatively, in point of numbers, was a 

 great reduction from their means ; they had calculated 

 what they should want to consume, and had laid the 

 rest out in land ; so that tlie remaining part w^re sub- 

 jected 10 great hardships and difllcultios for the first 

 jear or two of their settling, vhich was during the time 

 of their greatest labours. However, it was not long 

 before they began to reap the Iruits of their toil, and 

 in the space of six or seven years their settlement be- 

 came a most flourisliing colony. During that short 

 space of time they brought into cultivation 3,000 acres 

 of land (a third of their whole estate), reared a flock of 

 nearly 2,000 sheep, and planted hop-gardens, orchards, 

 and vineyards ; built barns and siables to house their 

 crops and their live stock, granaries to keep one year's 

 produce of grain alwavs in advance, houses to make 

 their c>der, beer, and wine in, and good brick or stone 

 warehouses fur their sevfral species of goods ; con- 

 structed distilleries, mills for grinding, sawing, making 

 oil, and, indeed, for every purpose, and machines for 

 manufacturing their various materials for clothing and 

 other uses ; they had, besides, a store for retailing Phi- 

 ladelphia goods to the country, and nearly 100 good 

 dwelling-houses of wood, a large stone-built tarern, 



