100 years at Warrington : York County, Pennsylvania Quakers marriages, removals, births & deaths : Newberry, Warrington, Menallen, Huntington, and York meetings
Abstracts of Pennsylvania records of naturalizations, 1695-1773, found in Colonial records (Minutes of the Provincial Council), volumes 1, 2, 3, 9 & 10, The statutes at large of Pennsylvania, volumes II, III, IV, VI, VII & VIII, Pennsylvania archives, series 1, volumes 1, 3 & 4 : with surname index
Cover title continues: Marriages, births, deaths from the earliest records through 1800 of the Dutch Reformed, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Roman Catholics and Reformed (German).
Introduction signed: F. Edward Wright.
Includes index.
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Bibliography: p. x.
Contents
Lower Bermudian Church -- Upper Bermudian "Ground Oak: Church -- Christ's Church (Episcopal), York Springs -- Bender's Church (Lutheran and Reformed) -- Christ Evangelical and Reformed Church (Conewago), Littlestown -- Abbottstown Reformed Church (Emanuel Reformed) -- Arendtsville Lutheran and Reformed Congregations -- Dutch Reformed of Conewago -- Rock Creek / United Presbyterian Congregation of Gettysburg -- Minutes of the Upper Marsh (Marsh Creek Gettysburg) Presbyterians -- Register of Births and Deaths of Menallen Monthly Meeting (Quaker) -- Excerpts from diary of Rev. John Cuthbertson -- St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Germany Township -- Conewago Chapel, Edge Grove (Roman Catholic)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-391) and index.
Summary
"Religious and national diversity characterized the settlements of the Delaware Valley almost from the first arrival of Europeans, and America's first pluralistic society evolved from this colony established by William Penn on the western shore of the Delaware River in 1681. Penn himself set forth a new, ideological basis for pluralism and tolerance, and this transformed a tentative, pragmatic pattern of relative harmony and tolerance into official policy. The English culture transplanted to Pennsylvania was itself fragmented. Quakers and Anglican, for example, had very different religious, social, and cultural values. Colonists from different parts of the British Isles-the Welsh, the Scots, and the Scotch-Irish-did not share common experiences or cultures. The 'Swedes' were both Swedish and Finnish in origins and culture and, while often designated 'Germans' or 'Palatines' by English-speaking Pennsylvanians, emigrants from the Rhineland spoke different dialects, practiced a wide variety of religious observances, and had little in common historically or culturally. Penn's ideals, ideas and policies set in motion forces that had significant effects on the development of this extremely heterogenous colony. This book explores the ways in which the implications of Penn's ideals were gradually worked out in Pennsylvania and how a stable and generally tolerant society was created."
