Letter to Elizabeth Keifer detailing his research - Appraisal of Adam Koningmacher's estate - The Gibbons tract, Bird-in-Hand, Lancaster County, Pa. (map and text) - [Indenture:] James Gibbons to Moses Brinton - Founding of the German Baptist Sabbatarian Congregation, Conestoga, 172?-1732 Foreward - First early English land grants - Pennsylvania granted to William Penn,1681 - Founding of the German Baptist Sabbatarian Congretation Conestoga, 1721-1732 (map) - Conestoga German Baptist Congregaton (map) - Founding of the Germapn Baptist Sabbatarians at Conestogao 1721-1732 (text) - German Seventh Day Baptist branches: Virginia - Ephrata Borough limits and underlying Penn grants (map and text) - Cloister properties with surrounding properties with date warranted (map) - Disposal of various Cloister properties (map) - Approximate location of all Cloister buildings (map) - Chronology of land in Cloister - Acquisition of 27 1/2 acres and buildings by the state including inventory of personal property - Various names by which theGermanSabbatariaons and site were known.
xiii p., 1 l., 445 p. front., plates, ports., map, facsims. 24 cm.
Series
Swarthmore college monographs on Quaker history. no. 2
Notes
"The Dutch pioneers of Germantown": p. 395-398.
"Dutch and German settlers in Germantown, 1683-1709": p. 399-421.
Summary
" ... the study comprises, first, Penn's efforts on his three journeys to Holland and Germany to convert to Quakerism the Labadists, Pietists,and Quietists whom he found there; second, the way in which small Quaker communities on the Continent had prepared the way for these visits; and finally the rise and progress of those congregations of Dutch and German Quakers who, fleeing from persecution, accepted Penn's invitation to settle in Pennsylvania." [from the preface]
Translation of Chronicon ephratense, enthaltend den lebens-lauf des ehrwürdigen vaters in Christo Friedsam Gottrecht ... zusamen getragen von br. Lamech [i. e. Jacob Gass?] u. Agrippa [i. e. Johann Peter Miller also known as Prior Jaebez] ... Ephrata: Gedruckt anno M. DCCLXXXVI. cf. Seidensticker, First cent. of German printing in America, p. 117, and Sache, The German sectarians of Pennsylvania 142-1800, p. 471.
