. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. CHAPTER VI. Redemptioners or Indentured Servants not all Ger-man.— Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England con-tributed Large Numbers to Carry on the Work ofCommonwealth-Building in Pennsylvania. Be this my home till some fair star Stoops earthward and shall beckon me ;For surely Godland lies not far From these green heights and this great friend, my lover, trend this wayNot far along lies Arcady. HILE, of course, un-der the general titleof Redemptioners, I have ref-erence mainly to those of Ger-man birth, these people werecomposed of nea

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. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. CHAPTER VI. Redemptioners or Indentured Servants not all Ger-man.— Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England con-tributed Large Numbers to Carry on the Work ofCommonwealth-Building in Pennsylvania. Be this my home till some fair star Stoops earthward and shall beckon me ;For surely Godland lies not far From these green heights and this great friend, my lover, trend this wayNot far along lies Arcady. HILE, of course, un-der the general titleof Redemptioners, I have ref-erence mainly to those of Ger-man birth, these people werecomposed of nearly everyother nationality that contri-buted material to the upbuild-ing of the American com-monwealths. Such being thecase, and while, when wefind reference to indenturedservants and Redemptionersin many authors, the refer-ence, where no direct distinction is made, is to Germans. Ihave deemed it quite germane to the subject to devote a few(217)pennsylvaniagerm10penn

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