The Aby family of Peoria County, Illinois : the Eaby family of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : progeny of Theodorus Eby (1663-1732), the Swiss Mennonite pioneer of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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]
