The Mennonites of America

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Author(s): Henry Smith
Publisher: Published by the author
Year: 1909

Language: English
Pages: 516
City: Scottdale, PA

Chapter Page
Introduction 13
I The Anabaptists 16
II Menno Simons and the Mennonites of
Europe S3
III Cornelisz Pieter Plockhoy and the Mennonite
Colony on the Delaware . . 81
IV Germantown 94
V The Pequea Colony 134
VI Franconia 183
VII Expansion of the Pequea Colony before
1800 -. 192
VIII The Amish 208
IX During the Revolution 253
X The Mennonites of Ontario 265
XI The Mennonites During the Nineteenth
Century 275
1. Settlements in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana
and the Western States
2. Schisms.
3. The Civil War.
XII The Immigration from Russia 324
XIII The General Conference of Mennonites 343
XIV The Mennonites and the State .... 353
XV Principles, Customs and Culture . . . 386
XVI Literature and Hymnology 409
XVII The Present 446
XVIII Bibliography 456