. 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
. 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). AN EPHRATA SYMBOL. 2iS The Pennsylvania-German Society. paragraphs to those of other nationalities, to the Irish, who,after the Germans, were the most numerous, the English,the Scotch and the Welsh. There was no legal distinctionbetween any of them prior to the registry law of Germans only were required to take the oath of alle-giance, that not being required of the others who were al-ready subjects of the British crown. Furthermore, in the early days of the history of Pennsyl-vania and the three Lower Counties of New Castle, Kentand Sussex, many of the indentured servants came over asalready such, having been either in the service of well-to-do masters at home, or, having been taken into such ser-vice there to supply the needed labor on the lands whichtheir masters had already bought from the here, all the other conditions were applicable to themas to those from foreign countries. They received the sameoutfit upon the completion of their term of service, and
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