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The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers

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Author: Sachse, Julius Friedrich,

Date of Publication: 1899-1900.

Call Number: 974.802814 S121

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Responsibility: by Julius Friedrich Sachse.

Author: Sachse, Julius Friedrich,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed for the author,

Date of Publication: 1899-1900.

Physical Description: 2 v. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Notes: LCHS has no. 326.; Click on Table of Contents for more information.; Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents: v. 1. 1708-1742 -- I. Ephrata of the present day -- II. Beyond the Cocalico -- III. Advent of the Palatines -- IV. German pilgrims -- V. The Weaver's apprentice -- VI. The Labadists on the Bohemia Manor -- VII. The hut in the forest -- VIII. The German Baptist Brethren -- IX. The New Dunkers on the Conestoga -- X. The Cradle of German literature -- XI. Alexander Mack -- XII. Koch-Halekung, the serpent's den -- XIII. A retrospect -- XIV. A eventful year -- XV. The awakening of the Tulpehoken -- XVI. Kedar -- XVII. Jacob's Kampff und Ritter-platz -- XVIII. The monastery on the Wissahickon -- XIX. Unitas Fratrum -- XX. The habits of the orders -- XXI. Roster of the celibates -- XXII. The Weyrauchs Hugel -- XXIII. The Zionitic Brotherhood -- XXIV. The Amwell Dunkers -- XXV. The house of prayer -- XXVI. Peniel -- XXVII. A celestial visit -- XXVIII. The Skippack Brethren -- XXIX. The Pennsylvania Synods -- XXX. The order of the mustard seed -- XXXI. Hebron -- XXXII. Saron -- XXXIII. Bethania.; v.2. 1742-1800 -- I. Christopher Sauer and his German Bible -- II. Magister Johannes Hildebrand -- III. The great comet of 1743 -- IV. The pilgrimage to New England -- V. Industrial feature of the community -- VI. The music of the Cloister -- VII. The mystic of the Cocalico -- VIII. The rule of the Sisterhood -- IX. The Eckerlins -- X. The Ephrata Press -- XI. The Nantmel revival -- XII. The Gimsheim revival -- XIII. Conrad Weiser -- XIV. Educational departments -- XV. The visit of Israel Acrelius -- XVI. The Valleys of Virginia -- XVII. Snow Hill -- XVIII. Exoricism of fire -- XIX. Friedsam Gottrecht -- XX. Prior Jaebez -- XXI. Issues of the Kloster Press -- The Ephrata register (burial record)

Subjects: Ephrata Cloister.; Church of the Brethren.; Pennsylvania Dutch.; German Americans - Pennsylvania.; Printing - Pennsylvania; Ephrata (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802814 S121

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The music of the Ephrata cloister; also Conrad Beissel's treatise on music as set forth in a preface to the "Turtel taube" of 1747, amplified with fac-simile reproductions of parts of the text and some original Ephrata music of the Weyrauchs hÃ¼gel, 1739; Rosen und lilien, 1745; Turtel taube, 1747; Choral buch, 1754, etc

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Author: Sachse, Julius Friedrich,

Date of Publication: 1903.

Call Number: 286.3 S121

Responsibility: By Julius Friedrich Sachse.

Author: Sachse, Julius Friedrich,

Place of Publication: Lancaster

Publisher: Printed for the author,

Date of Publication: 1903.

Physical Description: 108 p. front., illus. (incl. music) plates, port., facsim. 26 cm.

Notes: Initials; head and tail pieces.; "Reprinted from volume XII, Proceedings of the Pennsylvania-German society."; "Beissel's Dissertation on harmony. Translation by the Rev. J. F. Ohl": p. [70]-79.; "Appendix: A page of Ephrata theosophy. Read at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania German society, Ephrata, Penna., October 20, 1899 ... Lancaster, Pa., 1903": p. [93]-106.

Subjects: Ephrata Cloister.; Church music

Additional Author: Beissel, Conrad,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 286.3 S121

A study of two distinct periods of Ephrata Cloister history

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Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Date of Publication: 1951

Brandywine (September 11, 1777), endless trains of wagons bearing the American wounded started to arrive at Ephrata. The buildings of the Cloister were turned into hospitals. Brothers and sisters immediately set to the task of caring for the wounded. Despite the deadly fevers which raged out of control

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Responsibility: by Jack Ward Willson Loose.

Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1951

Physical Description: [145]-[179] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 55, no. 6

Subjects: Beissel, Conrad, - 1690-1768.; Miller, Johann Peter.; Eckerling family.; Ephrata Cloister.; Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.; Printing - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.; Mysticism - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 55, number 6 (1951), p. 145-179Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.55

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Historical account of the Ephrata Cloister and the Seventh Day Baptist Society

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Author: Aurand, A. Monroe

Edition: Illustrated ed.

Date of Publication: c1940.

Call Number: 286.3 A927i

Responsibility: by A. Monroe Aurand, jr.

Author: Aurand, A. Monroe

Edition: Illustrated ed.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Aurand Press,

Date of Publication: c1940.

Physical Description: 24 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes: "Privately printed."

Subjects: Ephrata Cloister.; Seventh-day Baptists in Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 286.3 A927i

The life and conduct of the late Brother Ezechiel Sangmeister : now resting in God, once an inhabitant of Ephrata, whose extremely peculiar and noteworthy career is written by him under the guidance and direction of divine Providence : with all the peculiarities which go along with his career up to its blessed ending

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Author: Sangmeister, Ezechiel,

Date of Publication: c1980-

Call Number: 905.748 JHSCV

Responsibility: [translated by Barbara M. Schindler]

Author: Sangmeister, Ezechiel,

Uniform Title: Leben und Wandel.

Place of Publication: [Ephrata, Pa

Publisher: Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley],

Date of Publication: c1980-

Physical Description: 4 v. in pts. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley ; v. 4-10, 1979-1985.

Notes: Cover title: Leben und Wandel.; Each part has facsim. of original separate t.p. in German and also t.p. with translation in English.; Translation of: Das Leben und Wandel. Ephrata [Pa.] : J. Bauman, 1825-27.; "Consisting of 6 [i.e., 4] parts. Which is preceded by a brief chronicle, of the establishment and foundation of the Ephrata community up to the late author's arrival there [i.e., excerpts from Chronicon ephratense] ..."; Includes indexes.

Subjects: Sangmeister, Ezechiel, - 1724-1785?; Ephrata Cloister.; German Americans - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.; German Americans - Virginia.

Additional Author: Lamech,

Additional Corporate Author: Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley.

Additional Title: Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley ;

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 905.748 JHSCV

History of Ephrata, Pa., and its cloister/ by Milton H. Heinicke

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Author: Heinicke, Milton H.,

Date of Publication: ca. 1956.

Call Number: 286.3 H469

Author: Heinicke, Milton H.,

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: ca. 1956.

Physical Description: various paging: maps. ; 28 cm.

Contents: 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.

Subjects: Beissel, Conrad, - 1690-1768.; Ephrata Cloister.; Seventh-Day Baptists - Pennsylvania.; Germans - Pennsylvania.; Ephrata (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 286.3 H469

Record of the Ephrata Cloister Cemeteries

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Author: Schmoyer, Melville B.

Call Number: 905.29 NG v.27-29

Responsibility: by Melville B. Schmoyer.

Author: Schmoyer, Melville B.

Physical Description: p.55-60.

Notes: In: National Genealogical Society Quarterly, v.29, no.2 (June 1941)

Subjects: Ephrata Cloister.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Ephrata.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.29 NG v.27-29

The Music of the Ephrata Cloister

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Author: Sachse, Julius.

Call Number: 905.748 PG v.12

Responsibility: by Julius Sachse.

Author: Sachse, Julius.

Notes: In: Pennsylvania German Society, v.12.

Subjects: Beissel, Conrad , - 1690-1768.; Ephrata Cloister.; Church music; Pennsylvania German dialect.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 PG v.12

The myths surrounding the Ephrata Cloister and the Revolutionary War Era

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Author: Spohn, Clarence E.

Date of Publication: 2002

Call Number: 905.748 JHSCV v.27

Responsibility: by Clarence E. Spohn.

Author: Spohn, Clarence E.

Place of Publication: Ephrata, Pa

Publisher: The Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley ,

Date of Publication: 2002

Physical Description: 22-49 p. ; 28 cm.

Notes: In: Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley, v.27 (2002)

Subjects: Ephrata Cloister.; Ephrata (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 905.748 JHSCV v.27

A triad of Lancaster County history : Ephrata Cloister, Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley, Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

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Date of Publication: 1985.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO T819

Place of Publication: Ephrata, Pa

Publisher: Science Press,

Date of Publication: 1985.

Physical Description: [12], 120 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 x 28 cm.

Series: Science Press keepsake ; no. 16.

Notes: This is number 52 of 1,400 copies.; LCHS copy is number 57.

Subjects: Landis, Henry K., - 1865-1955.; Landis, George Diller.; Ephrata Cloister.; Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley.; Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.; Museums - Pennsylvania.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO T819

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