Switzerland and Germany about the year 600 A. D. Up to this time the fiercest persecution in other parts of Europe was that by the hea- then Longabards upon the Christians for their refusal to honor idols (Mar- tyrs' Mirror, Elkhart Edition of 1886, p. 210). But the Roman Church now began the same, and

grandmother told her, tells us in her "Journal" that the farmers on the Susquehanna about 1730 did not de- pend on wheat and corn, but on hemp and hops to make a living. (See Journal Hist. Soc. Pa,) To tell the number of people who lived here when the county was or- ganized in 1729 is a difficult matter. In

pages of marriages at Christ's Church and the First Presby- terian Church at Philadelphia and other nearby places are given. About 140 pages of early naturalizations in Pennsylvania are given in this volume, showing their seven years residence etc., etc. There are about 4,500 of these. These extend from

raise more food than needed to feed them; she is making gun powder; manufacturing salt peter; casting cannon; they are building ships and have built one of three hundred tons; they obey Congress; they celebrate every anniversary of the repeal of the Stamp Act, by bonfires, illuminations and other

province belonging to the original church of Schwardzenau founded in 1708. The Dunkers were originally Calvinists and were baptized in the river Eder by Schwardzenau. The word Tunkers in German and Baptists in Greek and Dippers in English have all the same signification." V. 7 p. 124. 1721 Among the

the same may be confirmed accordinglie, and that a return thereof be made into the Secretary's Office, in order to a final confirmation of the same." This will readily be seen to be an extension of the road leading to Rad- nor, up towards Haverford Meeting House or Church. The completion of the road

Cresap on the charge of murder, and that the Sheriff, attended by a lot of German Protestants and Europeans, lately ar- rived, of the Communion of the Church of England and Scotland, went over to capture Cresap and set fire to his house in doing so, but that there was bloodshed in the undertaking. Joseph

--Pennsylvania. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1910 Description: 293-300 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245

descendants, became Bap- tists after the Keithian fight. Alexander Edwards moved from Radnor to the vicinity of Montgomery Square, Philadelphia county, now Montgomery county, and purchased 900 acres of land sometime previous to 1700. (Pa. Arch., 249. 276 and 326.) He died in November,1712,and his will was