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In 1816 a new sect was founded by a sea-captain, Staffel Mulder, on communistic principles after the example of the first Jerusalem converts, which gathered a number of followers among the peasantry. The "New Lighters" such was the name they assumed established in 1823 their headquarters at Zwijndrecht. The first enthusiasm however died down, and the sect gradually disappeared.
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