The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . 24 The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania. early as 1717, expressed the apprehension that, under thecircumstances, the Province might soon become a foreigncolony. To counteract this state of affairs it was ordered in acouncil held September 17, 1717 : That all Masters of Vessels who had lately landed any of such passengers, to appear before the Board, and renderan account of their number and character. A proclamation was alsoissued calling on all such emi-grants to appear within th
The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . 24 The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania. early as 1717, expressed the apprehension that, under thecircumstances, the Province might soon become a foreigncolony. To counteract this state of affairs it was ordered in acouncil held September 17, 1717 : That all Masters of Vessels who had lately landed any of such passengers, to appear before the Board, and renderan account of their number and character. A proclamation was alsoissued calling on all such emi-grants to appear within thespace of one month before somemagistrate,— Particularly before the Re- corder of this City to takesuch oaths appointed by lawas are necessar\- to give assur- ances of their being well afTec- ted to his Majesty and his Gov- ernment. But because some of these foreigners are said to be Mennonists, who cannot for consciences sake take any oaths, that those persons be admitted upon their giving any equivalent assurances in their own way and Arms of Pennsylvania.{From a contemporary proclamation.) The Governour observd to the Board that great numbers of fforeignersfrom Germany, strangers to our Language & Constitutions, having latelybeen imported into this Province daily dispersed themselves immediatelyafter Landing, without producing any Certificates, from whence theycame or what they were ; & as they seemed to have first Landed inBritain, & afterwards to have left it Without any License from the Gov-ernment, or so much as their knowledge, so in the same manner theybehaved here, without making the least application to himself or to anyof the magistrates ; That as this practice might be of very dangerous Con-sequence, since by the same method any number of foreigners from anynation whatever, as well Kncmys as friends, might tlirow themselvesupon us ; The Governour, therefore, throught it requisite that this mattershould be Considered by the Board.—Col. Rec, vol. iii, p.
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