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NEW HARMONY
  

The governors or presidents of the province and state have been:

Province.
John Cutt, president 1679–1681
Richard Waldron, president 1681–1682
Edward Cranfield, lieutenant-governor 1682–1685
Walter Barefoot, deputy-governor 1685–1686
Joseph Dudley, president of Council for New England 1686–1687
Edmund Andros, governor-general of New England 1687–1689
Without a government 1689–1690
Nominally united with Massachusetts 1690–1692
Samuel Allen, governor 1692–1698
Richard Coote, earl of Bellamont, governor 1699–1701
Joseph Dudley, governor 1702–1715
Samuel Shute, governor 1716–1723
John Wentworth, lieutenant-governor 1723–1728
William Burnett, governor 1729–1730
Jonathan Belcher, governor 1730–1741
Benning Wentworth, governor 1741–1767
John Wentworth, governor 1767–1775
Transition from Province to State.
Matthew Thornton, president of the Provincial Convention 1775
State Presidents.
Mesheck Weare 1776–1785
John Langdon 1785–1786
John Sullivan 1786–1787
John Langdon 1788–1789
John Sullivan 1780–1790
Josiah Bartlett 1790–1792
State Governors.
Josiah Bartlett 1792–1794  Federalist
John Taylor Gilman 1794–1805   ,,
John Langdon 1805–1809 Dem.-Repub.
Jeremiah Smith 1809–1810 Federalist
John Langdon 1810–1812 Dem.-Repub.
William Plumer 1812–1813   ,,
John Taylor Gilman 1813–1816 Federalist
William Plumer 1816–1819 Dem.-Repub.
Samuel Bell 1819–1823   ,,
Levi Woodbury 1823–1824   ,,
David Lawrence Morril 1824–1827 “Adams Man”
Benjamin Pierce 1827–1828  “Jackson Man” 
John Bell 1828–1829 “Adams Man”
Benjamin Pierce 1829–1830 “Jackson Man”
Matthew Harvey 1830–1831    ,,
Joseph Merrill Harper (acting) 1831    ,,
Samuel Dinsmoor 1831–1834    ,,
William Badger 1834–1836 Democrat
Isaac Hill 1836–1839   ,,
John Page 1839–1842   ,,
Henry Hubbard 1842–1844   ,,
John Hardy Steele 1844–1846   ,,
Anthony Colby 1846–1847   ,,
Jared Warner Williams 1847–1849   ,,
Samuel Dinsmoor 1849–1852   ,,
Noah Martin 1852–1854   ,,
Nathaniel Bradley Baker 1854–1855   ,,
Ralph Metcalf 1855–1857 Know-Nothing
William Haile 1857–1859 Republican
Ichabod Goodwin 1859–1861   ,,
Nathaniel Springer Berry 1861–1863   ,,
Joseph Albree Gilmore 1863–1865   ,,
Frederick Smyth 1865–1867   ,,
Walter Harriman 1867–1869   ,,
Onslow Stearns 1869–1871   ,,
James Adams Weston 1871–1872 Democrat
Ezekiel Albert Straw 1872–1874 Republican
James Adams Weston 1874–1875 Democrat
Person Colby Cheney 1875–1877 Republican
Benjamin Franklin Prescott 1877–1879   ,,
Natt Head 1879–1881   ,,
Charles Henry Bell 1881–1883   ,,
Samuel Whitney Hale 1883–1885   ,,
Moody Currier 1885–1887   ,,
Charles Henry Sawyer 1887–1889   ,,
David Harvey Goodell 1889–1891   ,,
Hiram Americus Tuttle 1891–1893   ,,
John Butler Smith 1893–1895   ,,
Charles Albert Busiel 1895–1897   ,,
George Allen Ramsdell 1897–1899   ,,
Frank West Rollins 1899–1901   ,,
Chester Bradley Jordan 1901–1903   ,,
Nahum Josiah Bachelder 1903–1905   ,,
John McLane 1905–1907   ,,
Charles M. Floyd 1907–1909   ,,
Henry B. Quinby 1909–1911   ,,
Robert P. Bass 1911–   ,,

Bibliography.—C. H. Hitchcock, Geology of New Hampshire (Concord, 1874–1878); New Hampshire Annual Reports (1871). especially those of the Forestry Commission, Fish and Game Commission, Board of Agriculture and Board of Charities and Correction; J. F. Colby, Manual of the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire (Concord, 1902), containing an historical sketch of the constitutions of the state; F. A. Ward, “The New Hampshire Constitution,” in The New England Magazine, N.S., vol. 29 (September 1903); Laws of New Hampshire, including Public and Private Acts and Resolves and the Royal Commissions and Instructions. with Historical and Descriptive Notes, edited by A. S. Batchellor (Manchester, 1904); Captain John Mason, the Founder of New Hampshire, including his tract on Newfoundland, the American charters in which he was a grantee, with letters and other historical documents, together with a memoir by C. W. Tuttle (Boston, 1887), edited by J. W. Deane; New Hampshire Provincial Papers; documents and records relating to the province from the earliest period of its settlement (Concord, 1867–1873); J. Belknap, The History of New Hampshire (Philadelphia, 1784); Life of William Plumer (Boston, 1857), by his son William Plumer, Jr.; G. Barstow, The History of New Hampshire from its discovery, in 1614, to the passage of the toleration act, in 1819 (New York, 1853); E. A. Charlton, New Hampshire as it is (Claremont, 1857); J. N. McClintock, History of New Hampshire (Boston, 1889); F. B. Sanborn, New Hampshire, an Epitome of Popular Government (Boston, 1904) in the “American Commonwealths Series”; and W. H. Fry, New Hampshire as a Royal Province (New York, 1908).

NEW HARMONY, a village in Posey county, Indiana, U.S.A., on the Wabash river, about 22 m. N.W. of Evansville. Pop. (1900) 1341; (1910) 1229. It is served by the Illinois Central railway, and has regular steamboat connexion with the river cities. New Harmony had its beginning in 1814–1815, when it became the home of a communistic religious sect known variously as the Harmonists, Harmonites and Rappites, founded in Germany towards the end of the 18th century by George Rapp (1757–1847), a native of Iptingen in Württemberg. Rapp and his followers, who sought to form a community after the manner of the primitive Christian Church, were persecuted in Germany, and in 1803–1804 emigrated to Butler county, Pennsylvania. There they established in 1805 a community known as Harmony, consisting of some 600 persons, who held their property in common and in 1807 adopted celibacy. In 1814 Rapp sold most of his Pennsylvania land and bought about 24,735 acres (in the next ten years more than 14,000 acres in addition) on the Wabash river in Indiana Territory. In 1814–1815 Rapp and a thousand of his followers settled on the Indiana tract, their headquarters being established at New Harmony, or Harmonie as they called it. The settlers, mostly Germans, devoted themselves to agriculture, weaving and leather-working so industriously that they prospered from the start. Rapp, however, in 1825 disposed of his lands and property to Robert Owen, having returned with part of his followers to Pennsylvania and founded a new community known as Economy (q.v.), in Beaver county, where he died in 1847. Intent on founding a socialistic community, Owen went to the United States in 1824, and purchased Rapp’s lands and live stock for $182,000. He interested several well-known scientists in his settlement, and with them came to New Harmony in the spring of 1826. Within six months the community numbered over 1000. Among its most notable members were Robert Owen’s sons, Robert Dale Owen (1801–1877), a political leader and diplomat; David Dale Owen (1807–1860) and Richard Owen (1810–1890), both geologists of note; William MaClure (1763–1840), the founder of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia; Thomas Say (1787–1834), “the father of American Zoology”; Charles Lesueur, a scientist and antiquarian; and Gerard Troost (1776–1850), a well-known geologist. The greater part of the settlers, however, were impractical theorists or adventurers. Constitution after constitution was adopted, and with the adoption of each new constitution and with each new religious discussion a group would secede and form a separate community—in 1828 there were ten—the best known and most successful being Macluria (like the others, occupying a part of Owen’s land), named after William MaClure, who became its directing power. The whole organization broke up in 1827, and Owen left New Harmony in 1828. New Harmony has a Working Men’s Institute Public Library, founded in 1838 by William MaClure,