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during the time of their greatest labours. How 

 ever, 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 

 ami 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 warehouses for their several species of 

 goods ; constructed distilleries, mills for grind 

 ing, 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 Philadel 

 phia goods to the country, and nearly 100 

 good dwelling-houses of wood, a large stone-' 

 biiilt tavern, and, as a proof of superabun 

 dance, 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 



