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calculated what they should want to consume, and had laid the 

 rest out in land ; so that the remaining part were subjected to 

 great hardships and difficulties for the first year or two of their 

 settling, which was during the time of their greatest labours. 

 However, it was not long before they began to reap the fruits of 

 their toil, and in the space of six or seven years their settlement 

 became a most flourishing 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 

 stables to house their crops and their live stock, granaries to keep 

 one year s produce of grain always in advance, houses to make 

 their cyder, beer, and wine in, and good brick or stone ware 

 houses for their several species of goods ; constructed 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 

 Philadelphia goods to the country, and nearly 100 good dwelling- 

 houses of wood, a large stone-built tavern, and, as a proof of 

 superabundance, a dwelling-house and a meeting-house (alias 

 the parsonage and church) which they had neatly built of brick. 

 And, besides all these improvements within the society, they did 

 a great deal of business, principally in the way of manufacturing, 

 for the people of the country. They worked for them with their 

 mills and machines, some of which did nothing else, and their 

 blacksmiths, tailors, shoe-makers, &c., when not employed by 

 themselves, were constantly at work for their neighbours. Thus 

 this everlastingly-at-work band of emigrants increased their stock 

 before they quitted their first colony, to upwards of two hundred 

 thousand dollars, from, probably, not one fifth of that sum. 

 What will not unceasing perseverance accomplish ? But v with 

 judgment and order to direct it, what in the world can stand 

 against it !* 



920. In comparing the state of this society as it now is with 

 what it was in Pennsylvania it is just the same as to plan : the 

 temporal and spiritual affairs are managed in the same way and 

 upon the same principles, only both are more flourishing. Rapp 

 has here brought his disciples into richer land, and into a situation 

 better in every respect, both for carrying on their trade, and for 

 keeping to their faith ; their vast extent of land is, they sa?/, four 

 feet deep of rich mould, nearly the whole of it, and it lies along the 

 banks of a fine navigable river on one side, while the possibility 

 of much interruption from other classes of Christians is effectually 

 guarded against by an endless barricado of woods on the other 

 side. Bringing the means and experience acquired at their first 

 establishment, they have of course gone on improving and in 

 creasing (not in population) at a much greater rate. One of their 



* A more detailed account of this society, tip to the year 1811, 

 will be found in Mr. Mellish s Travels, vol. 2. 



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