The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . Map of the Palatinatk, whknce cams most of thk early Emigration to Penngvlvania.(From the German Exodus to England, 1709.) CHAPTER GERMAN N the fall of the year ofgrace 1720 there arrivedat Boston, the chief cityof the Massachusetts Baycolony, a vessel fromEurope. Our records failto give either the name ofthe vessel, the master orthe port whence it stranger part of thisarrival was that it broughtto that port a number ofGerman emigrants, whoseobjective po
The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . Map of the Palatinatk, whknce cams most of thk early Emigration to Penngvlvania.(From the German Exodus to England, 1709.) CHAPTER GERMAN N the fall of the year ofgrace 1720 there arrivedat Boston, the chief cityof the Massachusetts Baycolony, a vessel fromEurope. Our records failto give either the name ofthe vessel, the master orthe port whence it stranger part of thisarrival was that it broughtto that port a number ofGerman emigrants, whoseobjective point was theQuaker Valley {Quakerthal) in the Island of Pennsyl-vania i^Die Insitl Pensilvanieii). Among the number wasa band of religious enthusiasts from the Palatinate, whohad left their native land to escape the religious persecu-tion which had again broken out over the fated Rhinevalley upon the accession of Karl Philip as Elector Pala-tine, who had reintroduced the Catholic religion. A systemof oppressing his Protestant subjects was inaugurated andpersisted in, notwithstanding the vigorous protests fromthe Protestant ruler of Prussia and the States General,supported, as they were, by the intercession of King Georgeof England. The leader of this party was a
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