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History of Ephrata, Pa., and its cloister/ by Milton H. Heinicke

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Author
Heinicke, Milton H.,
Date of Publication
ca. 1956.
Call Number
286.3 H469
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Author
Heinicke, Milton H.,
Place of Publication
Typescript
Date of Publication
ca. 1956.
Physical Description
various paging: maps. ; 28 cm.
Contents
Letter to Elizabeth Keifer detailing his research - Appraisal of Adam Koningmacher's estate - The Gibbons tract, Bird-in-Hand, Lancaster County, Pa. (map and text) - [Indenture:] James Gibbons to Moses Brinton - Founding of the German Baptist Sabbatarian Congregation, Conestoga, 172?-1732 Foreward - First early English land grants - Pennsylvania granted to William Penn,1681 - Founding of the German Baptist Sabbatarian Congretation Conestoga, 1721-1732 (map) - Conestoga German Baptist Congregaton (map) - Founding of the Germapn Baptist Sabbatarians at Conestogao 1721-1732 (text) - German Seventh Day Baptist branches: Virginia - Ephrata Borough limits and underlying Penn grants (map and text) - Cloister properties with surrounding properties with date warranted (map) - Disposal of various Cloister properties (map) - Approximate location of all Cloister buildings (map) - Chronology of land in Cloister - Acquisition of 27 1/2 acres and buildings by the state including inventory of personal property - Various names by which theGermanSabbatariaons and site were known.
Subjects
Beissel, Conrad, - 1690-1768.
Ephrata Cloister.
Seventh-Day Baptists - Pennsylvania.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Ephrata (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
286.3 H469
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A study of two distinct periods of Ephrata Cloister history

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Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Date of Publication
1951
StudyofTwo Distinct Periods Perio Ephrata (.,Coiner BY JACK WARD WILLSON LOOSE I. Mills of the Cloister The Ephrata Cloisters owed its founding, if not its raison d'etre to Johann Conrad Beissel, who was born in April, 1690, at Eberbach in the German Palatinate. Beissel's father was an intemperate
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by Jack Ward Willson Loose.
Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1951
Physical Description
[145]-[179] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 55, no. 6
Subjects
Beissel, Conrad, - 1690-1768.
Miller, Johann Peter.
Eckerling family.
Ephrata Cloister.
Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.
Printing - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.
Mysticism - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 55, number 6 (1951), p. 145-179Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.55
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