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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 283

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n, withWilhelm Rittighauseu as their first preacher. This meeting-house, also a plain log-house, was the firstcongregational house dedicated to the worship of Almighty-God within the boimds of the German township of whichwe have any definite record. This house, supplanted in1770 by the present… … 200 The Gertnan Sectarians of Pennsylvania. original purposes by descendants of the early Germanpioneers who built it. It was not until the commencement of the second decadeof the century that the great wave of German emigrationstruck the shores of the American colonies, and Pennsyl-vania received…

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