Historic background and annals of the Swiss and German pioneer settlers of southeastern Pennsylvania, and of their remote ancestors, from the middle of the Dark Ages, down to the time of the Revolutionary War : an authentic history from original sources ... with particular reference to the German-Swiss Mennonites or Anabaptists, the Amish and other nonresistant sects.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eshleman, H. Frank (Henry Frank), 1869-1953, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swiss--Pennsylvania.

Swiss.

Germans--Pennsylvania.

Germans.

Mennonites--Pennsylvania.

Mennonites.

Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Pennsylvania.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

2 preliminary leaves, 386 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Lancaster, Pa. : [publisher not identified], 1917.

Summary:

"An authentic history, from original sources, of their suffering during several centuries before and especially during the two centuries following the Protestant Reformation, and of their slow migration, moved by those causes, during the last mentioned two hundred years, westward in quest of religious freedom and their happy relief in the Susquehanna and Schuylkill valleys in the new world; with particular reference to the German-Swiss Mennonites or Anabaptists, the Amish and other non-resistant sects."

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

Other Format:

Online version: Eshleman, H. Frank (Henry Frank), 1869-1953. Historic background and annals of the Swiss and German pioneer settlers of southeastern Pennsylvania, and of their remote ancestors, from the middle of the Dark Ages, down to the time of the Revolutionary War.

OCLC:

263952