"The material in this book is an abstract of, and index to, information reported by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, and published in their annual reports to the Smithsonian Institute [sic], printed as Senate documents (1900-1974), published by the Society in a separate volume (1975-1977) and published annually in the DAR magazine (1978-1987)"--T.p. verso.
Abstracts of Carroll County newspapers, 1831-1846 : items taken from the newspapers of the Carrolltonian and Baltimore & Frederick advertiser, the Democrat & Carroll County republican (Westminster), and the Regulator & Taneytown herald
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)
Alphabetical listing of heads of households (with age and sex of all members of households) included in the 1800 federal census of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
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."
