A history of the German Baptist brethren in Europe and America . suggested or demanded. AlexanderMack lived with Henry Hoecker in half a house,the other half being occupied by his brother, Valen-tine, and his family. To the meagre house of Mack. and Hoecker came Koch April 12, 1736, and thenext year, on October 14, they lived in the newhouse on the Wissahickon. Indeed, it is not proventhat it was on the Wissahickon. It was in a valley,a mile from Germantown. This is probably definiteenough to locate it. Sachse says,(2) A branch of this new society (/.<?. (1) See Watsons Annals of Philadelph
A history of the German Baptist brethren in Europe and America . suggested or demanded. AlexanderMack lived with Henry Hoecker in half a house,the other half being occupied by his brother, Valen-tine, and his family. To the meagre house of Mack. and Hoecker came Koch April 12, 1736, and thenext year, on October 14, they lived in the newhouse on the Wissahickon. Indeed, it is not proventhat it was on the Wissahickon. It was in a valley,a mile from Germantown. This is probably definiteenough to locate it. Sachse says,(2) A branch of this new society (/.<?. (1) See Watsons Annals of Philadelphia, Vol. Ill, p. 461. (2) Pietists of Colonial Pennsylvania, p. 201. 214 History of the Brethren. The Ephrata Society) for a time flourished in Ger-mantovvn and vicinity. For the purposes of thenew community a massive stone building was erectedin 1738 on the Wissahickon. He gives a cut ofthe building and says, Built by the Zionitic Brother-hood, A. D. 1737, Dedicated, October 14, 173-.—Chronic071 Ephrate?ise, p. 84. Now the only people who built a house in the year1737 near Germantown and moved into it, on October14, of said year, as recorded by the CJironicon, are theabove mentioned poor young men. They were nota branch of the new or
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