After the revolution, more attention was paid to agriculture. The small farms were again cultivated to a greater extent. Timbers were rafted down the Neversink and Delaware to market. Saw mills and grist mills were built in the valley. The cultivation of flax and hemp constituted a large part of their labor. The manufacture of cloth and clothing was a household occupation and year end employment for both the men and the women of the families. The sowing, the cultivation, the gathering of the flax which must be pulled, dried and ripped and spread into a "stook" in the field. This was followed by the cleaning, the drying and the tying in bundles. The new grown hemp must be pounded, swingled, carded and dried, then swingled, pounded and hetcheled until the fibers were assorted, spread and drawn ready for spinning. The raising of sheep, the shearing, the assorting of fleeces, the carding of the wool--the colorings of "golden rod green"--the "pokeberry crimson"--the "sassafras orange yellow"--the hickory-oak bark or indigo as fancy may decide. The skeins bleached, washed, dyed and dried were wound on bobbins for the loom. Then came the knitting, the weaving, and the making of the clothing,--broom corn brooms supplanted birch splint brooms. Such constant employment invariably leads to habits of economy, to adaptability and resourcefulness which makes for independence and strength. This mutual dependence and assistance resulting from their situation made a "neighborhood" feeling whereby each shared in the profits, the pleasures and the luxuries of the others. They joined together in their work and in generous welcome to the kinsfolks. With such environments, to a people, strong, vigorous, enterprising, voluntary exiles for conscience's and their religious sake, these develop strong characteristics in families, more marked in some individuals.