The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants . and sister moved out toGermantown on the third of October,where they made their home with Schon-feld until the family acquired land oftheir own. The main object of the wholecompany, , was to find land andfound homes for themselves as soon aspossible. The Schwenkfelders hadplanned and labored hard—Christopherhimself traveling hundreds of miles—tosecure a large tract of contiguous land inorder that they might live close toget
The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants . and sister moved out toGermantown on the third of October,where they made their home with Schon-feld until the family acquired land oftheir own. The main object of the wholecompany, , was to find land andfound homes for themselves as soon aspossible. The Schwenkfelders hadplanned and labored hard—Christopherhimself traveling hundreds of miles—tosecure a large tract of contiguous land inorder that they might live close together,but nowhere could they find a suitableplace. They tried to buy the Casper Wis-tar tract of over 1000 acres in the pres-ent Lower Salford. but found that itwould not suit because it was already oc-cupied in part. They made an otter oi1000 pistoles for 2000 acres of the Per-kasie Manor, lying north of the presentdial font, in Bucks county, an offerwhich Logan said was the best he hadknown to be made since he knew theprovince. Thomas Penn proposed tosell them 2.^00 acres oi the said manorland, but for some reason no sale was 404 THE PEXXSYLVAXIA-GERMAX. PRESENT FARM-ECILDINGS ON THE OLD WIEGNER HOMESTEADThe homestead is now the property of Allen K. Krlebel made. Christopher relates that when heand others went to view the said land,the residents would not show the boun-dary-lines and conducted them a wholeday over poor land. On inquiry, Wiegnerlearned that this was done because thepeople did not wish them to settle also tried to buy 2,000 acres inFalckner Schwamm. Large unexploredand unsettled tracts were indeed avail-able, but they chose to make their homesin the inhabited sections and thus — un-wittingly — avoided the extreme hard-ships of the frontier settlers and the bar-baric cruelty of the revengeful In-dian. Being prevented from establish-ing a distinct Schwenkfelder commu-nity, they concluded to biiy whereverconditions seemed most favorable. Ac-cordin
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