A history of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America . In it lived theabove named brethren together with Brother JohnRiesmann and a pious married couple. Perhaps alsoHenry Hoecker was of the number. The Monastery on the Wissahickon is a largethree-story stone building. These men had nomoney and no time to erect so large a building as Some Leaders in Colonial AincrJea. 213 the Monastery. It is more likely that the so-calledmonastery is only the three-story stone dwellinghouse erected by Joseph Gorgas after 1752. Josephpurchased the ground from his brother John Gorgaswho purchased it i
A history of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America . In it lived theabove named brethren together with Brother JohnRiesmann and a pious married couple. Perhaps alsoHenry Hoecker was of the number. The Monastery on the Wissahickon is a largethree-story stone building. These men had nomoney and no time to erect so large a building as Some Leaders in Colonial AincrJea. 213 the Monastery. It is more likely that the so-calledmonastery is only the three-story stone dwellinghouse erected by Joseph Gorgas after 1752. Josephpurchased the ground from his brother John Gorgaswho purchased it in March, 1747. Joseph was amember of the Seventh-Day Baptists, and here hegathered congenial spirits and held sweet commun-ion.() It is wrong historically, therefore, to con-nect the Brethren with the Monastery. They werepoor men, living from house to house, as convenienceand economy 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,^^) 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 Birthnu. The Ephrata Society) for a time flourished in Ger-mantown and vicinity. For the purposes of thenew communit}- 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-.—CJiro7iicon Ephratcnsc, p. 84. Now the only people who built a house in the )ear1737 near Germantown and moved into it, on October14, of said )ear, as recorded by the C/iro/iiccm, are theabove m
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