After the Satu Mare Peace other guilds are founded: the shoemaker’ in 1716, the weavers’ in 1719, and the butchers’ in 1726. In that period, also the craft of making sifting sacks for mills (so called pytlikarstvo - sack making) extended there. Economically, it became the most important craft of Myjava that met with a ready market in the whole territory of Austria-Hungary.
It was Daniel Krman jr. Who played important part in the economic rise of the village. His personality attracted non-Catholics both from neighbourhood and from Moravia to such a degree that they even moved to Myjava and joined the increasing crafts. Under constraint of Moravian authorities, the emperor Charles VI. Ordered to remove Krman from Myjava in 1716, but the Hungarian authorities did not accept it. Under other constraints and various pretences, his influence upon the Moravian borderland was hindered and, in 1729, the emperor ordered to put him to prison and sentenced to life imprisonment in Bratislava Castle. Daniel Krman died there in 1740 having left an important scientific and literary work. The emperor prohibited the Myjava Protestant Church and ordered to take the church and property. Intercessions were vain, though the following ambassadors interceded: Danish, Prussian, Saxon, Hanoverian, Norwegian, British, and even the Russian Queen Ann in 1736, and the English King George in 1745. However, the Austrian emperor Charles VI, and Maria Theresa after him remained hard-hearted to Myjava.
The Act of Toleration of Joseph II in 1781 meant a peaceful beginning of the economicn and cultural development of the city that had already 8,387 inhabitants in 1785. In the forties of the nineteenth century, under the influence of J. M. Hurban and other patriots, the whole region of the Myjava Hill-Country becomes one of the most significant centres of the Slovak national movement. Its aim was to grant equality of the Slovaks with other nations of Hungary. The Government in Pest proclaimed a martial law and issued warrants of arrest for leaders of the Slovak nation, Stúr, Hurban and Hodza. The mentioned leaders organized a corps of volunteers in Vienna, who crossed the frontier of Hungary on September 18, 1848 and, on the same day they reached Myjava - a centre of the first Slovak rising. The following day, a rally of people took part there and declared in public the Slovak National Council to be a representative of the political and military forces of Slovakia, as the first national authority in the history of the Slovaks.