Chronicon Ephratense. : Enthaltend den Lebens-Lauf des ehrwürdigen Vaters in Christo Friedsam Gottrecht, Weyland Stiffters und Vorstehers des geistl. Ordens der Einsamen in Ephrata in der Graffschaft Lancaster in Pennsylvania. / Zusam̄en getragen von Br. Lamech u. Agrippa. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamech, Brother, -1763, author.

Contributor:

Miller, Johann Peter, 1710-1796.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19558.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Beissel, Conrad, 1690-1768.

Beissel, Conrad.

Ephrata Cloister.

Seventh-Day Baptists--Pennsylvania.

Seventh-Day Baptists.

Pennsylvania.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (6 unnumbered pages, 250 pages, 2 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

Ephrata [Pa.]: : [Druck der Brüderschaft], Gedruckt anno MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

An abstract of the diary of the Brotherhood, which had been kept by Brother Lamech, and continued and edited by Brother Jaebez (Latin Agrippa) id est, Johann Peter Miller. Brother Lamech has been identified as Jacob Gass by Seidensticker but according to J.F. Sachse in his German sectarians of Pennsylvania, his identity is still unknown.

Running title: Lebens-Beschreibung des Stiffters des geistl. Ordens der Einsamen in Ephrata.

Vorrede signed: Bruder Agrippa. Im Lager Ephrata den 14ten April 1786.

Printed seal of the Ephrata Community mounted on title page.

Errors in paging: pages 65, 155, 159, 204, 216, 242 misnumbered 64, 154, 156, 104, 116, 142.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 19558).

Cited in:

Evans 19558

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