During its century-long existence in the United States , the Harmony Society successively built the towns of Harmony in Pennsylvania, New Harmony in Indiana, and Economy in Pennsylvania. Under strong leaders that ruled as benevolent dictators over faithful followers not interested in individual freedom, three generations of Harmonists made pioneering contributions to agriculture, craftsmanship, manufacturing, commerce, transportation, architecture, the arts, and education in nineteenth-century America. But while their worldly ventures prospered, the biological extinction of these apostolic Christians transplanted from Swabia was only a matter of time after they adopted the rule of strict celibacy in 1807. According to the millenarian creed established by their founding patriarch George Rapp (1757-1847), Adam, having been created in the exact image of God, was originally both masculine and feminine but lost his bisexuality in the fall from paradise. It was the duty of all Harmonists, whether married or not, to abstain from beastlike sexual intercourse that would only serve to propagate the race of fallen man and thus interfere with the advent of God's kingdom.' The history of the Harmony Society shows that those who could not adhere to celibacy were relentlessly expelled from it. This article deals with the exceptional case of one prominent Harmonist who fathered two children outside the society but did not suffer expulsion and eventually even assumed a trusteeship that lasted twenty-two years.After the death of R. L. Baker (1793-1868), Jacob Henrici (1804-92) became the Harmony Society's senior trustee, and Jonathan Lenz (1807-90) was appointed its junior trustee. Dated one day after he died on 23 January 1890 in Economy, an otherwise favorable obituary alleged that he had been involved in a secret love affair which temporarily demented him:
The Authorship of the Vertrauliche Briefe aus Kanada und NeuEngland votn J[ahre] 1777 und 1778During the American Revolution, August Ludwig Schlozer's Briefwechsel meist historischen und politischen Inhalts, probably the most widely read periodical of the German Enlightenment,* featured contributions by several soldiers serving with the German contingents on the British side. A partial listing for the purpose of this paper includes the following eight communications, in the order of their publication by Schlozer: Ref. Schlozer's Briefw echsel No. Year Theil Heft No. Pages Letter(s) Sent from Dated 1 1778 III 13 5 3S42 Duer House (NY)
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