"Publication sponsored by the Hostetter Family Reunion."
Includes indexes.
Contents
Descendants of Jacob and Anna Hostetter of Engleside, Lancaster Cty., Pa. / by Richard L. Hostetter -- Descendants of Oswald and Maria Hostetter of Warwick Twp., Lancaster Cty., Pa. / by David J. Bachman.
"We want to acknowledge the help for this book which came from the Henry and Sallie Martin & Emanuel and Lizzie Martin books, compiled in part by Marlin E. Sensenig, from Philip Horst, Isaac Martin, Lizzie Nolt, and others who send information"--Introduction.
Samuel Gorton (1593 - 1677) was an early settler and civic leader of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and President of the towns of Providence and Warwick. He had strong religious beliefs which differed from Puritan theology and was very outspoken, and he became the leader of a small sect of converts known as Gortonists or Gortonites. As a result, he was frequently in trouble with the civil and church authorities in the New England colonies. [from Wikipedia]
