Friday, October 20, annual meeting of the Pennsylvania German society; Saturday, October 21, Germantown's community celebration; Sunday, October 22, religious observances.
Translation of Chronicon ephratense, enthaltend den lebens-lauf des ehrwürdigen vaters in Christo Friedsam Gottrecht ... zusamen getragen von br. Lamech [i. e. Jacob Gass?] u. Agrippa [i. e. Johann Peter Miller also known as Prior Jaebez] ... Ephrata: Gedruckt anno M. DCCLXXXVI. cf. Seidensticker, First cent. of German printing in America, p. 117, and Sache, The German sectarians of Pennsylvania 142-1800, p. 471.
xiii p., 1 l., 445 p. front., plates, ports., map, facsims. 24 cm.
Series
Swarthmore college monographs on Quaker history. no. 2
Notes
"The Dutch pioneers of Germantown": p. 395-398.
"Dutch and German settlers in Germantown, 1683-1709": p. 399-421.
Summary
" ... the study comprises, first, Penn's efforts on his three journeys to Holland and Germany to convert to Quakerism the Labadists, Pietists,and Quietists whom he found there; second, the way in which small Quaker communities on the Continent had prepared the way for these visits; and finally the rise and progress of those congregations of Dutch and German Quakers who, fleeing from persecution, accepted Penn's invitation to settle in Pennsylvania." [from the preface]