. A brief history of John and Christian Fretz and a complete genealogical family register to the fourth generation : with accounts and addresses delivered at the Fretz family reunions held at Bedminster, PA, 1888, 1893, 1898, and it \. Nearly two hundred years ago, three brothersleft their home near the beautiful and historic Rhinein the fatherland, the immediate vicinity of whichhad been the scene of great conflicts between con-tending and contesting armies for centuries, and wasverily a land drenched in human blood, and takingship, they started on the journey for America. Forweeks a
. A brief history of John and Christian Fretz and a complete genealogical family register to the fourth generation : with accounts and addresses delivered at the Fretz family reunions held at Bedminster, PA, 1888, 1893, 1898, and it \. Nearly two hundred years ago, three brothersleft their home near the beautiful and historic Rhinein the fatherland, the immediate vicinity of whichhad been the scene of great conflicts between con-tending and contesting armies for centuries, and wasverily a land drenched in human blood, and takingship, they started on the journey for America. Forweeks and months they were tossed upon the bosomof the ocean, braving the storraswept sea, as theyplowed through the briny waters, now rocking uponthe rolling waves, now tossed upon the crests ofmighty billows, and now sinking into the greattroughs of the sea; on they swept, weathering theblasts, and stemming the storms, leaving their oldhome with its loved ones, and all its kindred andhallowed associations far behind them in the distance,with brightest anticipations ever welling up in theirhearts of a home in the new world, where they couldbe a free and happy people. How their hearts musthave throbbed with emotion as they anticipated out-ridi
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