. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. nor Carr,of New York, sent an expedition up the Delaware, which broke up and dis-persed the little colony. What became of Plockhoy, the founder and leader,there are no records to tell. He, however, wrote and had printed at Amster-dam, in the Dutch language, in 1662. the little tract bearing his name, in whichhe gives a history of his colony and its people. With the dispersion of hislittle colony, Plockhoy also disappeared, and it was not until 1694, when aged,blind and destitute, he, with his wife, reached the Mennonite settlement atGermantow
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. nor Carr,of New York, sent an expedition up the Delaware, which broke up and dis-persed the little colony. What became of Plockhoy, the founder and leader,there are no records to tell. He, however, wrote and had printed at Amster-dam, in the Dutch language, in 1662. the little tract bearing his name, in whichhe gives a history of his colony and its people. With the dispersion of hislittle colony, Plockhoy also disappeared, and it was not until 1694, when aged,blind and destitute, he, with his wife, reached the Mennonite settlement atGermantown, where kind and willing friends built him a house, planted him agarden, and where he died. Th-re is not a more pathetic story connected withthe history of our State than this one of poor Plockhoy. His little tract is ofexcessive rarity, the only copy in Pennsylvania being in the library of JudgePennypacker, of Philadelphia. See Proceedings of the Pennsylvania-German Society, Vol. II., p. 34. *#PStp» *•.?%• ? WfW .: -. : 3 ? 2 o r.~* l. Fame and Fortune Awaited Many. 311 that of the poor laborer, poor in kind and scant in , we cannot contrast such an existence with thatpassed by his fellow laborer, Redemptioner though he was,in the welcoming breezes of Pennsylvania. Thousands of them achieved both fame and , if he was a good man and true, he married hisquondam owners daughter, and with her got back part ofthe riches his years of honorable servitude had helped tocreate. Among his own countrymen he lost no caste byreason of his service. Why should he? In the worldaround him one-half his fellows were working as hard ashe to repay borrowed money or to pay for lands or othervaluables they had purchased. He too was paying a debtvoluntarily incurred and there was no disgrace attachedto it. Our early history is filled with the story of Redemp-tioners who grew rich by their honest toil and left honor-able names to their descendants. I have at this momen
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