. The guide book to historic Germantown . their land and erect dwellings before the winter shouldovertake them. The following are the names of the thirteen settlers : Abraham Op den GraefF, Thones Kunders, Herman Op den GraefF, Reynier Tyson, Lenart Arets, Jan Lucken, Jan Seimens, Johannes Bleikers, Willem Streypers, Peter Keurlis, Jan Lensen, Abraham Op den GraefF, They were all Friends or Mennonites, but just howthey were divided between these two bodies is not their departure from Germany there had been a FriendsMonthly Meeting held at Crefeld, which was discontinue
. The guide book to historic Germantown . their land and erect dwellings before the winter shouldovertake them. The following are the names of the thirteen settlers : Abraham Op den GraefF, Thones Kunders, Herman Op den GraefF, Reynier Tyson, Lenart Arets, Jan Lucken, Jan Seimens, Johannes Bleikers, Willem Streypers, Peter Keurlis, Jan Lensen, Abraham Op den GraefF, They were all Friends or Mennonites, but just howthey were divided between these two bodies is not their departure from Germany there had been a FriendsMonthly Meeting held at Crefeld, which was discontinued im-mediately after their departure, indicating that all or nearly allthe full body of members had gone. By 1690 when the vil-lage of Germantown had grown to forty-four families, twenty-eight of them were Friends and the other sixteen of other re-ligious faiths. The next year (1684) other immigrants arrived and there-after a steady flow of settlers from Germany and the Rhineprovinces came to Pennsylvania, the majority passing through 18. co c 4-J C/J !9 HISTORIC GERMANTOWN Germantown. Many remained in the town, among them theancestors of some of our present day families,—the Keysers,Shoemakers, Johnsons, Rittenhouses, Leverings, Sauers, was the threshold over which entered the newcountry the various German sects, the Dunkards, Lutherans,Swenkfelders, etc., now occupying the southeastern portion ofPennsylvania. On the 13th of February, 1694, a number of Pietists, origi-nally from Germany, embarked at London on the ship SarahMaria for Pennsylvania. After many adventures the shipentered the Chesapeake and landed the immigrants in Maryland,whence they journeyed overland to Germantown. These men,with Johannes Kelpius, as their Superior, took up their residenceon the Ridge, as the high land between the Wissahickon andSchuylkill is called. Here they built a tabernacle of spent their time mostly in seclusion, engaged in religiousdevotion, in the study of ast
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