itself. Planks are sold at six shillings, Pennsylvania currency, (about three shillings four pence, sterling) the hundred; if you find the wood it is only half the money, and the plank, in that case, is sawed for one farthing per foot. This mill is near the fall of a lake which furnishes it with water. A deep cut is made in a rock to form a canal for conducting the waters to the corn-mill, which is built within musket-shot of the former; it is very handsome, and on the same plan with that of Mrs. Bowling at Petersburg, but not so large. From the mill I went to the Church, which is a square building, containing the house of the minister. The place where the duty is performed, and which may properly be called the Church, is on the first floor and resembles the Presbyterian meeting-houses, with the difference that there is an organ and some religious pictures."-Travels in North America, 1780-'82, Vol. II, p. 307, et seq.

On July 25, 1782, Gen. Washington and two aids, without escort, rode from Philadelphia to Bethlehem, where he passed the night. The next morning, escorted by the Moravian clergyman, John Etwein, he left Bethlehem, passing by the way of Easton, and arrived at Hope in time for dinner. Etwein rode on ahead to notify the Moravians of the General's coming, so that they might prepare a suitable entertainment. At Hope, Etwein parted with the General, who continued on his journey.

In 1790 the number belonging to the congregation at Hope was 147, of whom 66 were communicants; 100 lived in town, and 47 in the vicinity. From this time the membership steadily decreased. On the 26th of May, 1807, it was

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announced that the church authorities had decided to break up the establishment at Hope and sell the property. measure was necessary on account of the precarious financial condition of the settlement. On Easter Sunday, April 17th, 1808, the last sermon was preached, and with the evening service of that day the existence of the congregation terminated. Its members removed to Bethlehem and other settlements, and the. property was sold to Messrs. Kraemer and Horn of Pennsylvania.

But little is found in the Moravian Records concerning Samuel Green. After the founding of the settlement he became very eccentric in his ideas and habits. He lived the life of a hermit for many yaars, renouncing all the comforts of civilized society. He even forsook the fellowship of the Church, though his wife remained a devoted member to the last. Bishop Etwein visited him in his last illness, and brought him back to a renewal of his profession of the Christian faith. He died of dropsy, April 15, 1775, and was buried on Easter Day, the 16th. Bishop Etwein officiated at the funeral service, which was attended by about 300 people. In accordance with his request, he was interred in the grave-yard at "Sweasy's." The Moravian Records state that he was between sixty and seventy years of age. His wife, Anna Abigail, died at Hope, July 25, 1791. They had eight children; five died in childhood; three, Thomas, Nicholas and Anna, survived their parents. Thomas married Mary Whitesell, was a farmer in the vicinity of Hope, and had ten children; Abigail, Thomas, Margaret, Richard, Mary, Elizabeth, Samuel, George, John and Charles, all baptized by Moravian ministers. Mary Whitesell was a sister of Richard Whitesell the saw-miller of the settlement, who had a large family from which the Whitesells of Nazareth and Bethlehem, Pa., are descended.

Anna Green, daughter of Samuel and Abigail, lived at Salem, North Carolina, at the time of her mother's death, and was a Co-Laboress of the Single Sisters of the Moravian settlement at that place. She died at Bethlehem, May 13, 1819.