"Printed in 2016 for the Zaugg Versammlung (Zook Reunion) featuring the Zook immigrants."
Summary
This booklet was researched and prepared for the participants on the Zook/Zug Immigrant Tour through Lancaster, Chester, and Berks Counties that took place on July 1, 2016, during the International Zaugg Versammlung Reunion.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 55 #9A.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 312-325.
Summary
An illustrated history of a congregation that began in 1760 in parts of Lancaster, Chester, and Berks Cos., Pa. The Conestoga Mennonite Church at Morgantown, Pa., is the oldest permanent Mennonite congregation of Amish origins in the U.S.
This article provides an overview of what life in colonial Pennsylvania would have been like. Topics discussed include money, transportation, housing, population, agriculture, etc.
This is the personal and business journal of Peter Leibundgutt, an Amishman, who was a weaver.
Summary
Amishman Peter Leibundgutt/Livengood (d. 1826) kept an interesting financial journal of personal and business transactions between 1758 and 1824. A weaver, Peter is thought to be the first Amishman to go by Conestoga wagon across the Allegheny Mountains to settle in what is now Elk Lick, Somerset Co., Pa. This journal is transcribed here along with an introduction, a listing of Peter's descendants for three generations (Beachy, Breneisen, Fike, Forney, Haag, Hardman, Kepple, Miller, Saylor, and Yoder)
