Part 23 (2/2)
3
2
6
5
3
22
330 12
Eliza Mann,
4
4
2
2
6
4
22
264 -----+-------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+--------
The above is a true account of the time and rank of the whole group, working under my direction for the past week.
JULIA PEABODY. Foreman.
Entered on the books of the a.s.sociation, by WM. SEAVER, Clerk.
_Clarkson Domain, July 6, 1844._
SERIES OF WORKERS IN WOOD--GROUP NO II.
_Maximum Rank 30._
-----+----------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+-------- 1844
Total
Hours Rank
Mo.
Tue.
We.
Thu.
Fri.
Sat.
hours
& rank.
-----+----------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+-------- 24
Chas. Odell,
10
9
10
10
8
9
56
1344 30
John Allen,
10
10
2
6
10
8
46
1380 20
Jas. Smith,
Sick
--
--
--
--
3
3
120 30
Wm. Allen,
10
12
10
10
10
10
62
1860 30
Jas. Griffith,
10
10
10
10
10
10
60
1800 -----+----------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+--------
The above is a true account of the time and rank of the whole group, working under my direction for the past week.
JAMES GRIFFITH, Foreman.
Entered on the books of the a.s.sociation, by WM. SEAVER, Clerk.
_Clarkson Domain, July 6, 1844._”
For the sake of keeping in view the various religious influences that entered into the Fourier movement, it is worth noting here that Edwin A. Stillman, the Secretary of the Union, was one of the early Perfectionists; intimately a.s.sociated with the writer of this history at New Haven in 1835. We judge from the frequent occurrence of his official reports in the _Phalanx_ and _Harbinger_, that he was the working center of the socialist revival at Rochester, and of the incipient confederacy of a.s.sociations that issued therefrom. In like manner James Boyle, another New Haven Perfectionist, was a very busy writer and lecturer among the Socialists of New England in the excitements 1842-3, and was a member of the Northampton Community.
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE CLARKSON PHALANX.
This a.s.sociation appears to have been the first and most important of the Confederated Phalanxes. Mr. John Greig (before referred to) is its historian, whose account we here present with few alterations:
”Our a.s.sociation commenced at Clarkson on the sh.o.r.e of Lake Ontario, in the county of Monroe, about thirty miles from Rochester, in February 1844. We adopted a const.i.tution and bye-laws, but I am sorry to say that I have not a copy of them.
The reason why no copies have been preserved is, that after a year's experience in the a.s.sociative life, we all became so wise (or smart, as the phrase is), that we thought we could make much better const.i.tutions, and ceased to value the old ones.
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