Includes extensive footnotes to document the information and to provide information on past genealogical errors.
Summary
"To God Alone The Honor documents the family relations of the first Mennonite pioneers who settled in 1710 in what is now Lancaster County, and ends with the impoverished "Mennonists Swissers' who arrived at Philadelphia in 1754 on the ship Phoenix. The British Parliament described the Mennonite immigrants as a 'sober, quiet and industrious people.' And they were, but we remember them more for their faith- a faith which lives today in the hearts of many of their descendants." [book jacket]
Chapters: Interconnected families/ Faith through tribulation/ The 1710 Mennonite immigration/ The 1717 Mennonite immigration (land records, Chester County property tax assessements, 1729/30 Naturalization Act)/ List of Mennonites living in present Lancaster County by 1717/ The Pioneer families/ Menno Simons on: [various texts by Menno Simons]
Excerpt: "In February 1744, 1710 immigrant Martin Mylin donated an Ausbund published by Christopher Saur in 1742 'to the church at the Hans Herrs'...The foregoing facts compel the conclusion that Martin Mylin's 'Church at the Hans Herrs' was not the Strasburg congregation which met at 503 Twin Elm Road. In 1744, Preacher Hans Herr did not live there, and he most likely was not yet ordained to the ministry. Moreover, it is highly unlikly that Martin Mylin attended church services there. The 'Church at the Hans Herrs' could only have been the 1719 house built by Bishop Christian Herr. And the 'Hans Herr' could only have been Christian Herr's father, patricarch Hans Herr."
