The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers (1899)
Sachse, Julius Friedrich, 1842-1919 · Philadelphia : Printed for the author · leaf 274
-settled. The vacant lands were rapidly taken up and sur-veyed for the purchasers, who soon turned the wildernessinto a blooming garden. Most of these settlers wereLutheran and Reformed. Accessions also came fromamong the various German Sabbatarians who were scat- … Adoption of Distinctive Dress. 191 tered through Falkiier Swamp, Coventry in Chester countyand elsewhere. These latter, many of whom were poorand without means, clustered around the settlement oftheir leader. Philadelphia and the surrounding countryalso furnished some representatives of them. So…
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